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The Data of Macroeconomics

Learning objectives In this chapter, you will learn about: Gross Domestic Product (GDP) the Consumer Price Index (CPI) the Unemployment Rate

Gross Domestic Product Two definitions: Total expenditure on domestically-produced final goods and services Total income earned by domestically-located factors of production

Why Expenditure = Income In every transaction, the buyer’s expenditure becomes the seller’s income. Thus, the sum of all expenditure equals the sum of all income.

The Circular Flow

GDP as Income - Example Compute A farmer grows a bushel of wheat and sells it to a miller for $1.00. The miller turns the wheat into flour and sells it to a baker for $3.00. The baker uses the flour to make a loaf of bread and sells it to an engineer for $6.00. The engineer eats the bread. Compute value added at each stage of production GDP

The expenditure components of GDP consumption investment government spending net exports Y = C + I + G + NX

Consumption (C) def: the value of all goods and services bought by households. Includes: durable goods last a long time ex: cars, home appliances non-durable goods last a short time ex: food, clothing services work done for consumers ex: dry cleaning, air travel.

U.S. Consumption - 2003

Investment (I) def1: spending on [the factor of production] capital. def2: spending on goods bought for future use. Includes: business fixed investment spending on plant and equipment that firms will use to produce other goods & services residential fixed investment spending on housing units by consumers and landlords inventory investment the change in the value of all firms’ inventories

U.S. Investment, 2003

Investment vs. Capital Capital is one of the factors of production (a stock). At any given moment, the economy has a certain overall stock of capital. Investment is spending on new capital (a flow).

Investment vs. Capital Example (assumes no depreciation): 1/1/2004: economy has $500b worth of capital during 2004: investment = $37b 1/1/2005: economy will have $537b worth of capital

You Try: Stock or flow? The balance on your credit card statement. How much you study economics outside of class. The size of your compact disc collection. The inflation rate. The unemployment rate.

Government spending (G) G includes all government spending on goods and services. G excludes transfer payments (e.g. unemployment insurance payments), because they do not represent spending on goods and services.

Government spending, 2003

Net exports (NX = EX - IM) def: the value of total exports (EX) minus the value of total imports (IM)

Output = Expenditures Suppose a firm produces $10 million worth of final goods but only sells $9 million worth. Does this violate the expenditure = output identity?

GNP vs. GDP Gross National Product (GNP): total income earned by the nation’s factors of production, regardless of where located Gross Domestic Product (GDP): total income earned by domestically-located factors of production, regardless of nationality. (GNP – GDP) = (factor payments from abroad) – (factor payments to abroad)

In your country, which would you want to be bigger, GDP or GNP? Here’s a Question: In your country, which would you want to be bigger, GDP or GNP? Why?

(GNP – GDP) as a Percentage of GDP, Selected Countries, 2002 For the U.S., GDP and GNP are very close. Thus, students may not realize why we bother teaching them the difference. The data on this slide makes clear that the difference is very important for many countries. Source: World Bank.

Real vs. Nominal GDP GDP is the value of all final goods and services produced. Nominal GDP measures these values using current prices. Real GDP measure these values using the prices of a base year.

Real GDP controls for inflation Changes in nominal GDP can be due to: changes in prices changes in quantities of output produced Changes in real GDP can only be due to changes in quantities, because real GDP is constructed using constant base-year prices.

Practice Problem Compute nominal GDP in each year 2002 2003 2004 P Q good A $30 900 $31 1,000 $36 1,050 good B $100 192 $102 200 205 Compute nominal GDP in each year Compute real GDP in each year using 2002 as the base year.

Answers to 1 Nominal GDP multiply Ps & Qs from same year 2002: $46,200 = $30  900 + $100  192 2003: $51,400 2004: $58,300 Real GDP multiply each year’s Qs by 2002 Ps 2002: $46,200 2003: $50,000 2004: $52,000 = $30  1050 + $100  205

U.S. Real & Nominal GDP, 1970-2004

GDP Deflator The inflation rate is the percentage increase in the overall level of prices. One measure of the price level is the GDP Deflator, defined as

Example Nom. GDP Real GDP GDP deflator inflation rate 2002 $46,200 100.0 n.a. 2003 51,400 50,000 102.8 2.8% 2004 58,300 52,000 112.1 9.1%

Consumer Price Index (CPI) A measure of the overall level of prices Published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Used to track changes in the typical household’s cost of living adjust many contracts for inflation (i.e. “COLAs”) allow comparisons of dollar figures from different years

How the BLS constructs the CPI Survey consumers to determine composition of the typical consumer’s “basket” of goods. Every month, collect data on prices of all items in the basket; compute cost of basket CPI in any month equals

Exercise: Compute the CPI The basket contains 20 pizzas and 10 compact discs. For each year, compute the cost of the basket the CPI (use 2002 as the base year) the inflation rate from the preceding year prices: pizza CDs 2002 $10 $15 2003 $11 $15 2004 $12 $16 2005 $13 $15

Example # 2 cost of inflation basket CPI rate 2002 $350 100.0 n.a. 2003 370 105.7 5.7% 2004 400 114.3 8.1% 2005 410 117.1 2.5%

The composition of the CPI’s “basket”

Reasons why the CPI may overstate inflation Substitution bias: The CPI uses fixed weights, so it cannot reflect consumers’ ability to substitute toward goods whose relative prices have fallen. Introduction of new goods: The introduction of new goods makes consumers better off and, in effect, increases the real value of the dollar. But it does not reduce the CPI, because the CPI uses fixed weights. Unmeasured changes in quality: Quality improvements increase the value of the dollar, but are often not fully measured.

The CPI’s bias The Boskin Panel’s “best estimate”: The CPI overstates the true increase in the cost of living by 1.1% per year. Result: the BLS has refined the way it calculates the CPI to reduce the bias. It is now believed that the CPI’s bias is slightly less than 1% per year.

CPI vs. GDP deflator prices of capital goods included in GDP deflator (if produced domestically) excluded from CPI prices of imported consumer goods included in CPI excluded from GDP deflator the basket of goods CPI: fixed GDP deflator: changes every year

Two measures of inflation

Chapter Summary Gross Domestic Product (GDP) measures both total income and total expenditure on the economy’s output of goods & services. Nominal GDP values output at current prices; real GDP values output at constant prices. Changes in output affect both measures, but changes in prices only affect nominal GDP. GDP is the sum of consumption, investment, government purchases, and net exports.

Chapter Summary The overall level of prices can be measured by either the Consumer Price Index (CPI), the price of a fixed basket of goods purchased by the typical consumer the GDP deflator, the ratio of nominal to real GDP The unemployment rate is the fraction of the labor force that is not employed. When unemployment rises, the growth rate of real GDP falls.