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Chapter 10
©2010 Worth Publishers
Tracking the Macroeconomy
Slides created by Dr. Amy Scott
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Chapter Objectives
1. How economists use aggregate measures to track the performance of the economy.
2. What gross domestic product , or GDP, is and the three ways of calculating it.
3. The difference between real GDP and nominal GDP and why real GDP is the appropriate measure of real economic activity.
4. What a price index is and how it is used to calculate the inflation rate.
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Measuring the Macroeconomy Almost all countries calculate a set
of numbers known as the national income and product accounts.
The national income and product accounts, or national accounts, keep track of the flows of money between different parts of the economy.
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Gross Domestic Product
Gross domestic product or GDP measures the total value of all final goods and services produced in the economy during a given year. It does not include the value of intermediate goods. Final goods and services are goods and
services sold to the final, or end, user. Intermediate goods and services are
goods and services—bought from one firm by another firm—that are inputs for production of final goods and services.
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Calculating Gross Domestic Product: Three Ways
GDP can be calculated three ways:
1) Add up the value added of all producers
2) Add up all spending on domestically-produced final goods and services. This results in the equation:
GDP = C + I + G + X - IM
3) Add up all income paid to factors of production
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Calculating GDP Three Ways
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What GDP Tells Us Measures the size of the economy Used to compare economic
performance year to year Used to compare economic
performance country to country Be careful – GDP includes both
changes in output and changes in prices
To only look at changes in output, use Real GDP
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Real vs. Nominal GDP Aggregate Output is the economy’s
total quantity of output of final goods and services
Real GDP is the total value of the final goods and services produced in the economy during a given year, calculated using the prices of a selected base year.
Nominal GDP is the value of all final goods and services produced in the economy during a given year, calculated using the current prices in the year in which the output is produced.
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Real vs. Nominal GDP (continued)Calculating GDP and Real GDP in a Simple Economy
Year 1 Year 2
Quantity of apples (billions) 2,000 2,200
Price of apple $0.25 $0.30
Quantity of oranges (billions) 1,000 1,200
Price of orange $0.50 $0.70
GDP (billions of dollars) 1,000 1,500
Real GDP (billions of year 1 dollars) $1,000 $1,150
Year 1 Nominal GDP = (2,000b*$0.25) + (1,000b*$0.50) = $1,000 billion
Year 2 Nominal GDP = (2,200b*$0.30) + (1,200b*$0.70) = $2,000 billion
Year 1 Real GDP = same as Year 1 Nominal GDP = $1,000 billion
Year 2 Real GDP (Year 1 prices) = (2,000b*$0.25) + (1,200*$0.50) = $1,150 billion
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Real vs. Nominal GDP (continued) Except in the base year, real GDP is not
the same as nominal GDP, output valued at current prices.
Chained dollars is the method of calculating changes in real GDP using the average between the growth rate calculated using an early base year and the growth rate calculated using a late base year.
GDP per capita is a measure of average GDP per person, but is not by itself an appropriate policy goal.
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Nominal versus Real GDP in 1993, 2005, and 2009
Nominal GDP (billions of current dollars)
Real GDP (billions of 2005 dollars)
1993 $6,657 $8,523
2005 12,638 12,638
2008 14,256 12,987
Real vs. Nominal GDP (continued)
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Price Indexes and the Aggregate Price Level
The aggregate price level is a measure of the overall level of prices in the economy.
To measure the aggregate price level, economists calculate the cost of purchasing a market basket.
A price index is the ratio of the current cost of that market basket to the cost in a base year, multiplied by 100.
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Market Baskets and Price Indexes
Pre-frost Post-frost
Price of orange $0.20 $0.40
Price of grapefruit 0.60 1.00
Price of lemon 0.25 0.45
Cost of market basket (200 × $0.20) + (200 × $0.40) +
(200 oranges, 50 grapefruit, (50 × $0.60) + (50 × $1.00) +
100 lemons) (100 × $0.25) = $95.00 (100 × $0.45) = $175.00
Calculating the Cost of a Market Basket
Table 11-3 shows the pre-frost and post-frost cost of this market basket.
In this example, the average price of citrus fruit has increased 84.2% since the base year as a result of the frost, where the base year is the initial year used in the measurement of the price change.
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Inflation Rate, CPI, and other Indexes The inflation rate is the yearly
percentage change in a price index, typically based upon consumer price index, or CPI, the most common measure of the aggregate price level.
The consumer price index, or CPI, measures the cost of the market basket of a typical urban American family.
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Consumer Price Index
This chart shows the percentage shares of major types of spending in the CPI as of December 2009.
Housing, food, transportation, and motor fuel made up about 75% of the CPI market basket.
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Consumer Price Index
Since 1940, the CPI has risen steadily.
However, the annual percentage increases in recent years have been much smaller than those of the 1970s and early 1980s.
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Other Price Measures
A similar index to CPI for goods purchased by firms is the producer price index (PPI).
Economists also use the GDP deflator, which measures the price level by calculating the ratio of nominal to real GDP.
The GDP deflator for a given year is 100 times the ratio of nominal GDP to real GDP in that year.
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The CPI, the PPI, and the GDP Deflator These three different measures of inflation usually move closely
together. Each reveals a drastic acceleration of inflation during the 1970s
and a return to relative price stability in the 1990s.