Chapter 6 Review Measuring Domestic Output & National Income
A nation's GDP: Market value of the total final output produced within the borders of the nation, in a year.
A nation's GDP: can be found by summing C + I g + G + X n.
What we don’t count: Non-market transactions Used items Stocks/bonds transfers
To avoid multiple counting: only counting final goods.
Final goods and services: goods and services purchased by ultimate users, rather than for resale or further processing.
intermediate good: purchase of taco shells by Taco Bell (Live Mas!)
consumption expenditures include: household spending (NOT new home sales)
Net exports are negative when: a nation's imports exceed its exports.
investment includes: business expenditures, e.g. on machinery and equipment.
largest component of total expenditures in the United States is: consumption
In the treatment of U.S. exports and imports: add exports, but subtract imports, in calculating GDP.
G stands for: government purchases.
GDP excludes: the market value of unpaid work in the home.
disposable income: income received by households MINUS personal taxes
Nominal GDP: the sum of all monetary transactions involving final goods and services that occur in the
Real GDP: GDP data that have been adjusted for changes in the price level.
Price Index = Nominal x 100 Real
If real GDP in a particular year is $80 billion and nominal GDP is $240 billion, the GDP price index for that year is: 300
If nominal GDP rises: real GDP may either rise or fall.
The price index for the base year is always: 100
Real GDP = Nominal GDPx 100 Price Index
If nominal GDP has risen faster than real GDP: the general price level has risen.
The underground economy: understates GDP.
GDP: understates economic welfare because it does not take into account increases in leisure. does NOT include environmental pollution
Would a hurricane HELP or HARM a country’s GDP? Why?
Does fixing your own car add to GDP?
Is marrying your housekeeper good for GDP?
If an American tourist spends money in Mexico, whose GDP benefits?