ECONOMICS 110/112 Assignment #5/#2 2013/2014 Due Dates and Notes: • DUE: By Friday February 28, 2:00 PM. Completed assignments should be placed in the slot marked for your section in the white assignment collection box on the 2nd floor of Dunning Hall. Late assignments will not be accepted. • Use the Cover Page when submitting assignments. Place diagrams for particular questions with your answers to those questions. • Group Work: Maximum four per group, all students must be registered in the same section of the same course. Names must be in alphabetical order on the cover page. • Graded work will be available for pick-up beginning on the afternoon of Friday March 14 in the Econ Distribution Center, Dunning …show more content…
[Hint: Remember that consumption and saving are functions of disposable income.] [8] (c) Suppose as a result of a financial crisis, investment decreases to 1 and exports decrease to 2. What is the new level of national income? Illustrate the effects of the financial crisis in your diagram for part (a). What is effect on the government’s budget? [Hint: Using the multiplier simplifies the calculations.] [6] (d) Suppose the government decides to use an increase in government spending to restore national income to its original level. By how much would it have to increase spending? What happens to the government’s budget balance? Explain why the government’s deficit does not increase by the full amount of the increase in spending. [4] A5-11. Using diagrams for aggregate expenditures (AE) and aggregate demand and supply (AD-AS), show the short and long run effects each of the following events has on the Canadian economy. Be sure to identify the cause of any shift or movement along AE, AD, SRAS, and/or LRAS. In each case, assume that the economy is initially in both short and long run equilibrium [Hint: Your diagrams for each part should look something like those in Figure 23-8, or 23-10 in your text, with the addition of a LRAS curve.] (a) The government
The growing national deficit is a looming problem in the United States now more than ever. The national debt is constantly increasing and government spending is out of control. If these issues are not solved then they could spell disaster for the nation’s economy when the infamous debt ceiling is finally reached. Currently the national policy on the debt is to continue raising the debt limit until a solution is found that is agreeable between both parties in Congress. The two main issues of over spending and the constant raising of the debts ceiling by Congress can both be resolved by government spending reform, balancing the federal budget and initiating pro-growth policies in order to increase the government’s tax revenue.
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7. From the documents, what inferences can you make about the “disastrous effects of the business cycle” for each group below:
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A fiscal deficit is when a government's total expenditures exceed the tax revenues that it generates. A budget deficit can be cut by either reducing public expenditure or raising taxes. In this essay, I am going to analyse the benefits and costs of increasing tax rates to reduce fiscal deficits instead of cutting government expenditure.
In which of the following situations is it certain that the quantity of money demanded by the public will decrease?
The two main questions about the federal budget that are important for the overall understanding of economics and the government role in the formation
c. Ignore part (b). Suppose government spending (G) increases by 10. What is the new level of equilibrium income?
The budget increase that would have been added by the passing of Measure J would
Over prices the income would rise from a 29% from today. There was a long run problem and when they show the history of the U.S. it seems to be falling instead of raising. There was long deficits over 38 years preceding financial problems. The GDP that went down and probably started up was from financial crisis. The survey of the government debt was organized into sections. In the twenty-first century section II had the effects of the debt. According to the view of issuance debt simulates growth. Data from the united states, percentages of gross domestic product risen over the past, two centuries. Many purposes debt has all levels of the government. The cause of this is the united states. The debt rose when the great depression came. The most sharp between 1945 and 1975 growth of gnp exceeded the rates for government debt. The status of security is crucial to future policy’s. The income for accounts are part of the federal outlays. Social security in about fifteen years will rise about two percent. The conditions are expected to cause programs. If the insurance for medicare is considered then it would rise four percent. The government finance system allows OASDI
Increased spending on investment adds to aggregate demand and helps to restore normal levels of production and employment.Fiscal policy, on the other hand, can provide an additional tool to combat recessions and is particularly useful when the tools of monetary policy lose their effectiveness. When the government cuts taxes, it increases households’ disposable income, which encourages them to increase spending on consumption. When the government buys goods and services, it adds directly to aggregate demand. Moreover, these fiscal actions can have multiplier effects: Higher aggregate demand leads to higher incomes, which in turn induces additional consumer spending and further increases in aggregate demand.Traditional Keynesian analysis indicates that increases in government purchases are a more potent tool than decreases in taxes. When the government gives a dollar in tax cuts to a household, part of that dollar may be saved rather than spent. The part of the dollar that is saved does not contribute to the aggregate demand for goods and services. By contrast, when the government spends a dollar buying a good or service, that dollar immediately and fully adds to aggregate demand.
b. What are the components of a comprehensive budget and what is the purpose of each
1. Discuss the causes of the Great Recession of 2008-10. Does the crisis represent a shift in the centre of global economic power from the United States to China? In your answer discuss the future fate of the US dollar as the preeminent international means of payments and reserve asset.
In 2007 the U.S government deficit has increased by $3 trillion over the past 10 years. Since 2008, the U.S debt has grown from $9 trillion to about $15 trillion over a few years. Today the U.S federal debt averages around $21 trillion dollars according to the FY19 federal budget. People must concern themselves with the possibility of there being a time where all the money in the federal budget must go towards paying the government's debt and interest rates. As well as what issues people will incur as a result of a lack of government spending. Of course raising taxes as an option can increase government revenues, but consequently the GDP growth will suffer. Without GDP growth, there will be an off balance of government spending and cuts will need to be made to help those in underfunded communities. Cutting government spending will lead to a ripple effect of negative bust to the economy. For instance, healthcare cost may increase, and people in low income communities will bear the cost of having to go without it, because they can no longer afford to pay it. Economic growth will decline as well, because every dollar that the government has to spend on paying back its debts will be taking away money from more productive areas of the economy. This stunts growth because governments do not efficiently allocate their resources which leads to a decrease in economic production, worsen recession, and an increase in income taxes. Increased taxes can