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Principles of Macroeconomics: Comprehensive Study Notes for Final Exam Preparation

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Expenditure Approach for Measuring GDP

Detailed Explanation of GDP Components

Nominal GDP and Real GDP

Shortcomings of GDP

Labor Force and Unemployment

Types of Unemployment

Unemployment: Minimum Wage Laws and Efficiency Wages

Inflation and Consumer Price Index (CPI)

Using CPI to Adjust for Inflation

Nominal Income and Real Income

Nominal Interest, Real Interest, and the Fisher Equation

Who is Affected by Inflation?

Demand-Pull and Cost-Push Inflation

Costs of Inflation: Shoe-leather Costs and Menu Costs

Long-Run Economic Growth

Productivity and the Per-Worker Production Function

Growth Rates and the Rule of 70

Institutions that Promote Economic Growth

Investment, Savings, and the Financial System

Savings Equal Investment

Market for Loanable Funds

Shifts in the Market for Loanable Funds

Business Cycles and Their Characteristics

Aggregate Demand

Shifting Aggregate Demand

Long Run Aggregate Supply

Short Run Aggregate Supply

Shifting Short Run Aggregate Supply

AD-AS Model: Shifts in Aggregate Demand

AD-AS Model: Equilibrium in the Short Run and Long Run

The Functions of Money; The Kinds of Money

Defining the Money Supply: M1 and M2

Required Reserves and the Deposit Multiplier

Introduction to the Federal Reserve

The Federal Reserve and the Money Supply

Quantity Theory of Money

Monetary Policy and Aggregate Demand

Expansionary and Contractionary Monetary Policy

Introduction to Fiscal Policy

Expansionary and Contractionary Fiscal Policy

Government Purchases and the Multiplier Effect

Taxes, the Multiplier Effect, and Automatic Stabilizers

Long Run Effects of Fiscal Policy

Criticisms of Fiscal Policy

Deriving the Multiplier Algebraically

PPF - Comparative Advantage and Absolute Advantage

PPF - Comparative Advantage and Trade

Sources of Comparative Advantage

Exporting and Importing

Tariffs

Import Quotas and VERs

Arguments Against International Trade

Balance of Payments: Introduction

Balance of Payments: Current Account

Balance of Payments: Financial Account and Capital Account

Net Exports Equal Net Foreign Investment

Balance of Trade; Trade Deficit and Trade Surplus

Exchange Rates: Introduction

Exchange Rates: Nominal and Real

Exchange Rates: Equilibrium

Exchange Rates: Shifts in Supply and Demand

Exchange Rates and Net Exports

Exchange Rates: Purchasing Power Parity