Frank and Bernanke Ch. 5: Macroeconomics: The Bird’s- Eye View of the Economy

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Econ 2023 The United States Business Cycle, Source:

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Econ 2025 Great Depression Roaring twenties: by September 1929 stock prices were 40% above their fundamental value. The Fed tried to cool off the market by raising interest rates (providing less money in the economy). The slow-down was viewed in terms of typical market adjustments.

Econ 2026 Great Depression Governments tried to balance budgets, further slowing down the economy. Huge deflation made bank collateral worthless in defaults. Bank failures triggered bank panics. Financial system ground to a stop. Falling prices provided incentives to postpone investment.

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Econ 2028 Great Depression Gold standard restricted countries to expand money supply only when they acquired gold as a result of trade surpluses. Those countries that abandoned the gold standard (Scandinavian countries, Japan) slipped away from the Great Depression. To acquire gold, countries passed protectionist policies (Smoot-Hawley in US).

Econ 2029 Spiral of World Trade: Jan to Mar Imports of 75 Countries. Source: E. Ray Canterbury, A Brief History of Economics, (World Scientific, Singapore: 2001), p. 209.

Econ Macroeconomics The need to view the economy beyond the supply and demand of individual markets grew from the experience of the Great Depression. John Maynard Keynes published his General Theory in 1936.

Econ Keynesian Macroeconomics Keynes claimed that in the short run total expenditures (aggregate demand) can fall creating unemployment, recessions, depressions. It is the responsibility of the government to stimulate the economy in these cases through monetary and fiscal policies.

Econ Modern Macroeconomics Keynesian macroeconomics only concentrates on the short run. Living standards depend on long run behavior of the economy. Living standards rise as a result of productivity.

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Econ US Trade The goods and services deficit in 2004 was $617.7 billion, the highest on record. As a percentage of U.S. gross domestic product, the goods and services deficit increased from 4.5 percent in 2003 to 5.3 percent in Exports increased $125.6 billion in 2004 to $1,146.1 billion. Goods were $807.6 billion and services were $338.6 billion. Imports increased $246.9 billion in 2004 to $1,763.9 billion. Goods were $1,473.8 billion and services were $290.1 billion. For goods, the deficit was $666.2 billion in 2004, the highest on record. For services, the surplus was $48.5 billion in 2004, down from $51.0 billion in Source:

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Econ Types of Macroeconomic Policies Monetary Fiscal Structural

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