RUNNING HEAD: FUNDAMENTALS OF MACROECONOMICS 1 Fundamentals of Macroeconomics ECO/372 February 5, 2015 Samuel Imarhiagbe FUNDAMENTALS 2 Fundamentals of Macroeconomics Macroeconomics studies an economy at the aggregate level. It is concerned with the workings of the whole economy or large sectors of it. These sectors include government, business, and households. Macroeconomics deals with such issues as national economic output and growth, unemployment, recession
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Consumption and Saving * Intertemporal decision concerns the problem of allocating resources across time. For example, deciding how much to consume today can have implications for how much will be available to consume tomorrow * Model economy consists of a representative household that lives for two periods (the entire duration of the economy). Each household has preferences defined over time-dated output (in the form of consumer goods and services). Let (c1, c2) denote an individual’s lifetime
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Maria Tovar Trade Surplus and Trade Deficit China overtakes USA as worlds trading partner China´s Trade Surplus Vs. USA´s Trade Deficit Countries that have open economies are those who carry out economic activities with other countries and trade goods and services. Countries can export, which means selling domestic goods and services to another country or they can import, which means buying goods and services from another country. An economic surplus makes reference to having a positive
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Current Macroeconomic Situation, Fiscal and Monetary Policies Current Macroeconomic Situation, Fiscal and Monetary Policies Introduction As the leading world economy, the United States and has been in a recession since 2008 and the leading outcome of this recession has been no other than unemployment. The newsflash among media and television about this recession has resulted in unemployment, and how to remedy this “current macroeconomic situation”. No one seems to have an immediate
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A. Income. in macroeconomics is more than the income received by employees in the form of salaries or wages. example, for households and individuals, income is the sum of all the wages, salaries, profits, interest s payments, rents and other forms of earning received in a given period of time. B. Consumption. Consumption means the expenditures made by households on goods and services. Example, consumer durable products like washing machines are consumed immediately after purchase. C. Multiplier
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Introduction of Foreign Direct Investment Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is known as the long term participation by country A into country B. It usually involves participation in management, joint-venture, transfer of technology and expertise. In other words, foreign direct investment is the cross-border corporate governance mechanism through which a company gains productive assets in another country. FDI is different from other major forms of foreign investment in that it is motivated largely
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Intermediate Macroeconomics 2 Coursework Question 1 a) The production function is Y=AKαL1-α as it is a constant-returns-to-scale production function. Computing the Solow residual giver you ∆AA , which is the rate of technological progress. From the question: α=0.2 ; ∆LL=n=0.01; ∆KK=0.07 ; ∆YY=0.05 Taking natural logarithms of the production function gives: ln(Y)=ln(A)+αln(K)+1-αln(L) Taking the first difference of both sides yields: ln(Y)-ln(Y-1)=ln(A)-ln(A-1)+α(lnK-lnK-1)+1-α(ln(L)-ln(L-1))
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Musinundo was a leading retailer of prerecorded music in Argentine, which have 39% market share in 1998, employed more than 2000 people and held headship position in the home-entertainment product market in December 1999. However, because of the depression of economic in Argentine, Musimundo was forced to file for bankrupt in August 2001. The reasons for the depression of economic in Argentine: Argentine government overvaulted the Argentine peso in the past. By 2001, foreign debt caused and had
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FICCI Economic Outlook Survey July 2011 FICCI, Federation House, 1, Tansen Marg, New Delhi FICCI Economic Outlook Survey – July 2011 About the Survey The seventh round of FICCI’s Economic Outlook Survey was conducted during the period 7th July and 19th July, 2011. As part of the survey, a structured questionnaire was drawn up and sent to economists and financial analysts with a view to gauge their perception and views on topical economic issues as well as to seek their outlook for key macro-economic
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