MACRO EXAM 2 pt. 1

17 April 2024
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Which of the following is a primary use for national income accounts?
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To measure changes in the value of production and income in the economy.
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GDP is the market value of:
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All final goods and services produced in an economy in a given year.
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To avoid multiple counting in national income accounts:
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Only final goods and services should be counted.
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Adding the market value of all final and intermediate goods and services in an economy in a given year would result in:
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An amount greater than GDP for that year.
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An example of final goods in national income accounts would be:
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Flowers and pots purchased by homeowner Joe Smith
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The following are examples of final goods in national income accounting, except:
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Lumber and steel beams purchased by a construction company
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All of the following are examples of intermediate goods, except:
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Oven bought by a bakery.
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Value added by a firm is the market value of the firm's output minus the:
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value of inputs bought from other firms.
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Subtracting the purchase of intermediate products and supplies from the market value of the sales of final products determines the amount of:
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Value added from the economic activity.
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Which of the following is a private transfer payment?
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A check for $250 sent by a parent to a daughter in college.
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Which of the following is included in the GDP?
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Fees received by stockbrokers
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The sale of a used automobile would not be included in GDP of the current year because it is a:
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Nonproduction transaction
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The two ways of looking at GDP are the:
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Expenditures and income approach
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Which of the following is included in the expenditures approach to GDP?
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Spending on meals by consumers at restaurants.
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The largest expenditure component of GDP is:
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Personal consumption expenditures
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Which of the following is not included in personal consumption expenditures?
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Purchases of mutual funds by consumers.
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Money spent on the purchase of a new house is included in the GDP as a part of:
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Gross domestic private investment
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The value of corporate stocks and bonds traded in a given year is:
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Excluded from the calculation of GDP because they make no contribution to current production of goods and services
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Gross domestic private investment, as defined in national income accounts, would include the following, except:
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Government construction of new highways and dams.
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Business inventories increase when firms produce:
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More than they sell, and the inventory increase is added to GDP
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If a car was made in 2009 and sold in 2010: how would the auto be counted as?
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Investment in 2009 and negative investment in 2010.
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When gross private domestic investment exceeds depreciation, it can be concluded that:
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Net investment is positive.
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The consumption of fixed capital in each year's production is called:
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Depreciation
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Government purchases in national income accounts would include payments for:
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Salaries of current U.S. military officers.
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A distinguishing characteristic of public transfer payments is that:
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They involve no contribution to current production in return.
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Net exports is a positive number when
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A nation's export of goods and services exceed its imports.
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GDP=
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C+G+I+NE
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Personal income (PI) refers to all income:
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received
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If the price index in year A is 130, this means that:
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Prices in year A are on average 30 percent higher in the base year.
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The GDP deflator or price index equals:
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Nominal GDP divided by real GDP
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GDP measured using current prices is called
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Nominal GDP
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Nominal GDP differs from Real GDP because:
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Real GDP results from adjusting for changes in the price level
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If the current prices rose 15% and the price index increased from 100 to 110, the GDP rose by:
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5%
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GDP understates the amount of economic production in the United States because it excludes
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Work performed by people for their own benefit.