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National-Income Accounting:
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and the Price Level
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Nominal GDP
the dollar (or euro, etc.) value of all the goods and services that an economy produces during a specified period, such as a year.
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Nominal GDP
Flow variable - it measures the dollar amount of goods produced per unit of time, such as a year.
GDP in current dollars
Services by government: measured by costs
Differ from GNP (gross national product): values of goods and service produced by domestic factors of productions. Eg: Japanese plant in China. Then the values of goods are viewed as GDP, not GNP for China, but GNP, not GDP for Japan.
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Real GDP
Calculating Real GDP
GDP in constant dollars
Multiply each year’s quantity of output of each good by the price of the good in a base year.
Chain-weighted real GDP
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Calculations
(nominal GDP)/(implicit price level)
= real GDP or
implicit price level
= (nominal GDP)/(real GDP)
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7. GDP as a Welfare Measure
GDP does not:
Consider change in income distribution
Include non-market goods.
Assign value to leisure.
Consider environmental damage.
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Measuring GDP
GDP Measured Using: (i) the expenditure approach; (ii) the income approach; (iii) the product approach.
Three approaches yield the same value of GDP.
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GDP by Expenditure
Personal Consumption Expenditures
Gross Private Domestic Investment
Government purchases of Goods and Services
Exports and Imports
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10. Measuring of GDP: Example
Fictional Island Economy
Coconut Producer, Restaurant, Consumers, Government
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Coconut Producer
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Restaurant
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After-Tax Profits
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Government
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Consumers
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Expenditure Approach
Total spending on all final goods and service in economy.
Total expenditure = C + I + G + NX
C: personal domestic purchase of goods and service, including durables and nondurables.
I: purchase of domestic business of new capital goods.
For example, machinery in plants, purchase of new home.
G: government consumption outlays.
For example, salary of military service, public investment such as national defence.
NX=Exports – Imports.
Exports are produced within a country, while imports are produced abroad.
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17. GDP Using Expenditure Approach
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Income Approach
Add up all incomes received by all economic agents contributing to production in an economy.
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20. Measuring GDP by Income
National Income includes:
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21. GDP Using the Income Approach
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22. Relationship between GDP and National Income
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23. GDP Using the Product (Value-added) Approach
Sum of value added to goods and service in production across all productive units in economy.
Add the value of all goods and service, and subtract the value of all intermediate goods and service used in production
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24. GDP Using the Product Approach
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25. National Income by Sector
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Prices
Consumer Price Index (CPI)
Producer Price Index (PPI)
Problem of CPI(PPI)
substitution
quality
new production
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