Review Checklist for Exam III (1)

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Review Checklist for Unit III Check Topic Module 9 Aggregate Expenditures Module What are the assumptions underlying the aggregate expenditures model? Explain the relationship between the investment demand curve and the investment schedule (see figures and table in textbook) Determine Equilibrium GDP for a closed private economy. See Key graph Explain that when the economy is in equilibrium, Saving = planned investment and there are no unplanned changes in inventories. Show how GDP changes when spending changes (the multiplier effect) How does the Aggregate Expenditures model change when international trade is added? What factors affect net exports and GDP (international linkages) How does the Aggregate Expenditures model change when government spending is added? What happens when taxes are added? Explain why G and T have differential impacts on GDP. Explain that equilibrium GDP may not be full-employment GDP. What is a recessionary expenditure gap? What is an inflationary expenditure gap Last Word : Says Law and how Keynes attacked it. Module 10 Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply What is Aggregate Demand and explain why the Aggregate Demand Curve is down sloping? (Real balances effect, the interest rate effect, and the foreign purchases effect.) What causes changes in Aggregate Demand? See the determinants that shift the aggregate demand curve in the textbook figure What is Aggregate Supply? Show how aggregate supply is different in the immediate short run, short run and long run. What causes changes in the Aggregate Supply? Explain Equilibrium GDP (Key graph) Explain demand pull inflation and recession Explain that decreases in AS cause cost push inflation (figure in textbook) Show that increases in AS causes growth, full employment, and relative price stability Appendix: the Relationship of the AD Curve to the Aggregate Expenditures Model
Module 11 Fiscal Policy, Deficits,, and Debt What are the tools of Expansionary Policy and when should they be used? What is a budget deficit? What are the tools of Contractionary Policy and when should they be used? What is the ratchet effect and how does this affect Contractionary policy? What is an automatic or built-in-stabilizer? What is a progressive tax system, a proportional system, a regressive system? What is the cyclically adjusted budget (full employment budget)? What is a cyclical deficit? What is a cyclically adjusted deficit? Understand recent fiscal policy. Explain the problems of timing (recognition lag, administrative lag, and operational lag) What is a political business cycle? How does State and Local Governments offset Federal Government fiscal policy? What is the crowding-out effect? What is the Public Debt? How is it related to Deficits? Who owns the Public Debt? Why is it important to look at the debt as a percentage of GDP? What are some of the false concerns about the public debt? What are some real concerns about the public debt? (Incentives, Foreign Owned debt, and crowding-out effect) What is the Public Debt, who owns it, and what is the primary burden of the debt? What are the false concerns of the Public Debt (bankruptcy, burdening future generations) and the real concerns (income distribution, incentives, foreign-owned public debt, crowding-out effect.0 Why are Social Security and Medicare time bombs? Module 12 Money, Banking and Financial Institutions What are the functions of Money? Explain them. What are the components of the Money Supply? What constitutes the M1 definition? What is currency? What are checkable deposits? What institutions are depository institutions? What constitutes the M2 definition? What backs the U.S. money supply? Why is money considered debt? What gives money its value? What is the relationship between money and prices? Purchasing power? What is the Federal Reserve? What is the structure of the Federal Reserve system and what is the relationship to the private sector? See figure 31.2. What are the functions of the Federal Reserve (FED)?
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