Principles of Macroeconomics, 9e - TB1 (Case/Fair/Oster) Chapter 9 The Government and Fiscal Policy 9.1 Government in the Economy 1 Multiple Choice 1) Fiscal policy refers to A) the techniques used by a business firm to reduce its tax liability. B) the behavior of the nation's central bank, the Federal Reserve, regarding the nation's money supply. C) the spending and taxing policies used by the government to influence the economy. D) the government's
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The evolution of internationalization There have been a variety of different approaches to explain the internationalization of business activities. They normally concentrate on distinct aspects of the reasons for and results of, enterprises operating in more than one environment and have changed dramatically throughout the last decade. Whereas traditional theories have focused their attention on the internationalization of production and foreign direct investment (FDI) where the multinational
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What is the relationship between social policy and economic policy? (Your answer must refer to Keynesian and Monetarist economic ideas in relation to welfare Trying to explain the relationship between social and economic policy can be seen as quite a complex task. But, if you look at the wider picture it can be said to become quite easy to see if the two go well together and how they intertwine with eachother to benefit the welfare state. In order to go further and try to explain the relationship
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Economic Growth- GDP Economic Growth… …An increase in an economy’s ability to produce goods and services Gross Domestic Product- represents the value of a country’s national income in one year. An increase in real GDP means that the standard of living within a country is increasing. It is therefore used as a way of measuring a country’s economic growth. The Business Cycle- there are discernable patterns in these levels over time, there will be periods of time when economic activity is rising
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2/7/2013 Part 3 The Economy in the Short Run Chapter 8 Spending and Output in the Short Run Learning Objectives LO1: Identify the key assumption of the basic Keynesian model and explain how this affects the production decisions made by firms. LO2: Discuss the determinants of planned investment and aggregate consumption spending and how these concepts are used to develop a model of planned aggregate expenditure. LO3: Analyze, using graphs and numbers, how an economy LO A l i h d b h
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In order to monitor all international monetary transactions during a specific time frame, countries use a method called the “balance of payments”. According to McEachern (2010), “The balance of payments measures economic transactions between a country and the rest of the world, whether these transactions involve goods and services, real and financial assets, or transfer payments” (p. 274). The method used is called “double-entry bookkeeping” with credits and debits. Any deficits in one area must
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Elvio Cardoza Erick Mendez William Olivares Small Business Project Introduction What is your favorite place to go out in Managua? What restaurant do you prefer the most? Those are some of the many questions people from Nicaragua and outside the country ask frequently when they want to have fun in the city of Managua. We as a group found a business opportunity in the market of Managua. We have been doing some research about Nicaraguan market preferences, and we are trying to understand
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National Income II Sherif Khalifa, Ph.D. Department of Economics California State University, Fullerton Sherif Khalifa, Ph.D. Department of Economics California National Income II State University, Fullerton () 1 / 31 Circular Flow Income Markets for factors of Production Private Saving Factor Payments Financial Markets Public Saving Taxes Households Government Firms Government Purchases Investment Markets for Consumption Goods and Services Firm Revenue Sherif Khalifa, Ph
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Why do you think the Chinese government originally pegged the value of the yuan against the U.S. dollar? What were the benefits of doing this for China? What were the costs? The U.S. dollar was the strongest in the global market. The benefits for China were that their yuan would stay weak, their exports would remain cheap, and their economy would thrive on production for the U.S. economy. The costs for China were that they had to exchange for U.S. dollars every month and that their exchange
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Who was Keynes and what were his ideas? John Maynard Keynes, born in 1883, is considered to be one of the most influential economists of the 20th century. He was most prominent during the Great Depression in the 1930s when he tried to create an economical revolution in economic thinking with his ideas of intervention in markets. The idea is also generally; that in the short run productive activity is very much influenced by aggregate demand, (aggregate demand is the total spending in the economy
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