Macro- Chapter 8 (prepare)

Disposable personal income is equal to personal income minus:

personal tax payment

the GDP per capita is computed by dividing a country's:

real GDP by its population

the total national income actually received by a country residence is:

smaller than the value of GDP

Real GDP is:

the value of goods and services evaluated at base year prices

which of the following goods and services would be excluded from personal consumption expenditures in the Bureau of economic analysis (BEA) statistics?

a new house

an alternating period of economic contraction and economic expansion measured over time with real GDP is known as the:

business cycle

which is the largest component of GDP?

consumption

the best measure of the income households actually have available to spend is:

disposable personal income

which of these is not a shortcoming of GDP as a measure of welfare?

it only counts final goods and services and not intermediate goods

how does the Bureau of Economic Analysis of the U.S. department of commerce measure GDP?

by adding the value in dollar terms of all the final goods and services produced domestically

a period of real economic growth, where production and employment are both moving higher is known as:

expansion

when a significant fraction of the domestic production takes place in foreign-owned facilitiesm a country's difference between GDP and GNP is as follows:

GDP will be much larger than GNP

if americans still worked sixty hour weeks as they did in 1890, _____

the GDP would be much higher than it is but the well-being of the typical person would not necessarily be higher

economic growth is important to an economy because it typically translates to:

a higher standard of living for the country's population

to calculate personal income from national income, which of the following must be done at BEA?

ad government transfer payments

in the circular flow model, who supplies factors of production in exchange for income?

households

which of the following are not counted as final goods and used in the GDP calculation?

intermediate goods

gross domestic product is best defined as the:

market value of all final goods and services produced in a country during a period of time