Chapter 06 Every Macroeconomic Word You Ever Heard: Gross Domestic Product, Inflation, Unemployment, Recession, and Depression.

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Chapter 06 Every Macroeconomic Word You Ever Heard: Gross Domestic Product, Inflation, Unemployment, Recession, and Depression

Chapter Outline Measuring the Economy Real Gross Domestic Product and Why it is Not Synonymous with Social Welfare Measuring and Describing Unemployment Business Cycles

Microeconomics vs. Macroeconomics Microeconomics: that part of the discipline of economics that deals with individual markets and firms Macroeconomics: that part of the discipline of economics that deals with the economy as a whole

Gross Domestic Product Gross Domestic Product: the dollar value of all of the goods and services produced for final sale in the United States in a year “Final Sale” avoids double counting of intermediate production “Sale” implies exclusively market activities “produced in the United States” implies that Hondas produced in the US count but Fords produced in Mexico do not

Measuring Prices Market Basket: what average people buy and in what quantities they buy it Base Year: year in which the market basket is established and year to which all other prices are compared Price of the Market Basket in the Base Year: (PBYMB) national average of the total cost of the market basket for the first month in the first year

Price Index Price Index: a device that centers the price of the market basket around 100 Consumer Price Index: the price index based on what average consumers buy

Measuring Inflation Inflation Rate: the percentage increase in the consumer price index

Problems Measuring Inflation Changes in the Market Basket occur every two years which is too infrequent for some goods (like consumer electronics). The treatment of improvements in the quality of goods is inadequate. People change the places they buy frequently. No accounting for substitutions.

Bureau of Labor Statistics Adjustments The BLS is dealing with Consumer electronics issues by pricing an index of quality rather than a specific item. The “infrequent updates problem” by moving to a two-year chain-based index, a price index that is based on an biannually adjusted market basket. The CPI still overstates the cost-of-living by 0.8%.

Alternative Measures of Inflation Core CPI: The consumer price index that has had the impact of food and energy costs removed. Personal Consumption Expenditures deflator: A chain-based price index that adjusts for the substitution problem. Core PCE: The Personal Consumption Expenditures deflator that has had the impact of food and energy costs removed. Producer Price Index: A price index based on what firms buy.

Alternative Measures of Inflation

Cost of Living Adjustments Cost of Living Adjustment or COLA: a device that compensates people for the fact that inflation makes the spending power of their income less

Inflation’s Winners and Losers People on fixed incomes Lenders Winners Borrowers

Interest and Expected Inflation If inflation exceeds expectations then borrowers win and lenders lose If inflation is less expectations then borrowers lose and lenders win

Real Gross Domestic Product Real Gross Domestic Product: an inflation adjusted measure of GDP GDP Deflator: the price index used to adjust GDP for inflation, including all goods rather than a market basket GDP RGDP = *100 GDP Deflator

Post WWII RGDP 2000 in billions

Problems With RGDP GDP only counts market sales so it ignores home production. GDP ignores the value of leisure GDP ignores the composition of output GDP should be a per capita measure GDP ignores environmental measures GDP ignores the “underground economy”

Measuring Unemployment Work Force: all those non-military personnel who are over 16 and are employed or are unemployed and actively seeking employment Unemployment Rate: the percentage of people in the work force who do not have jobs and are actively seeking them

Problems Measuring Unemployment Underemployed : the state of working significantly below skill level or working fewer hours than desired Discouraged worker effect: when bad news induces people to stop looking for work causing the unemployment rate to fall Encouraged worker effect: when good news induces people to start looking for work causing the unemployment rate to rise (until they succeed in finding work)

Annual Unemployment Rates

Types of Unemployment Cyclically Unemployed: people lose their jobs because of a temporary downturn in the economy Seasonally Unemployed: (a subset of the cyclically unemployed) people who lose their jobs predictably every year at the same time Structurally Unemployed : people who lose their jobs because of a change in the economy that makes their particular skill obsolete Frictionally Unemployed: people who are unemployed for a short time in the transition to an equal or better job

The Business Cycle Business Cycle: regular pattern of ups and downs in the economy Trough: the lowest point in the business cycle Recovery: the part of the growth period of the business cycle from the trough to the previous peak Expansion: the part of the growth period of the business cycle from the previous peak to the new peak Peak: the highest point in the business cycle Recession: the declining period of at least two consecutive quarters in the business cycle

The Business Cycle RGDP time Peak Expansion Recovery Peak Trough Recession Trough

The Business Cycle 1981 to 2009

If Inflation is Bad How can Deflation be Worse? With deflation People delay buying big ticket items when they are certain it will be cheaper if they are patient. If they delay buying then demand for those goods will fall. firms will cut costs by cutting wages and benefits, or by laying people off. when profits decline, the value of stocks decline. With less wealth, stockholders spend less on consumer goods. housing prices may decline. Purchases that are made using home equity decline.

Depression Depression: There is no generally accepted standard but most are characterized by a severe recession that results in a financial panic and bank closures, unemployment rates exceeding 20%, prolonged retrenchment in RGDP on the magnitude of ten percent or more, and significant deflation.

Kick It Up A Notch: RGDP Accounting

Alternative Approaches to GDP Calculations Expenditures Approach Amount Income Approach Personal Consumption $10,001.3 Employee Compensation $7,819.5 Gross Private Investment $1,589.2 All Profits $3,294.9 Government Consumption and Investment Expenditures $2,914.9 Indirect Business Taxes $964.4 Net Exports -$386.4 Depreciation $1,861.1 Statistical Discrepancy 179.0 Gross Domestic Product $14,119.0