Macroeconomic Models: Aggregate Expenditure Components and Economic Equilibrium

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What is the term for the total spending in the economy, which includes consumption, planned investment, government purchases, and net exports?
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Which macroeconomic model focuses on the short-run relationship between total spending and real GDP, assuming a constant price level?
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What are the four components of aggregate expenditure that together equal GDP?
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What is the term for spending by households on goods and services, such as automobiles and haircuts?
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What is the term for planned spending by firms on capital goods and by households and firms on new houses?
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What is the term for spending by local, state, and federal governments on goods and services?
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What is the term for spending by foreign firms and households on U.S. goods minus spending by U.S. firms and households on foreign goods?
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What is the term for goods that have been produced but not yet sold?
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When will actual investment equal planned investment?
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What occurs when total spending equals total production, or GDP?
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What happens to inventories and GDP when aggregate expenditure is greater than GDP?
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What are government actions designed to affect the performance of the economy as a whole called?
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What are the five most important variables that determine the level of consumption?
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What is the term for the income remaining to households after paying personal income tax and receiving government transfer payments?
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What is a household's wealth defined as?
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When does current income explain current consumption well?
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What does the price level measure in the economy?
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What is the effect of a high interest rate on household saving and spending?
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What is the nominal interest rate?
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How is the real interest rate calculated?
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What is the consumption function?
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What does the marginal propensity to consume (MPC) represent?
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How do national income and disposable income differ?
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What is the equation for national income in terms of consumption, saving, and taxes?
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What does the marginal propensity to save (MPS) indicate?
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What are the four most important variables that determine the level of investment?
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What is an important determinant of investment spending?
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How does a higher real interest rate affect investment spending?
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How do taxes affect investment spending?
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What is cash flow in the context of a firm's finances?
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What do total government purchases include?
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What are the three most important variables that determine the level of net exports?
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How does inflation in the U.S. relative to other countries affect exports and imports?
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What happens to net exports when incomes rise faster in the U.S. than in other countries?
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What is the effect of a rising U.S. dollar value on the price of U.S. products sold abroad?
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What does the 45-degree line in a Keynesian cross diagram represent?
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Where is planned aggregate expenditure equal to GDP on a 45-degree line diagram?
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Where does macroeconomic equilibrium occur on the 45-degree line diagram?
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How is a recession shown on the 45-degree line diagram?
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What happens when planned aggregate expenditure is less than real GDP?
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In a numerical example of macroeconomic equilibrium, what happens if planned aggregate expenditure is greater than GDP?
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What is an expenditure that does not depend on the level of GDP called?
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What is the multiplier in macroeconomics?
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What is the multiplier effect?
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What is the general formula for the multiplier?
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How does a change in the price level affect aggregate expenditure?
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What does the aggregate demand curve show?
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