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Chapter 1
Introduction and
Measurement Issues
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Chapter 1 Topics
• What is macroeconomics?• GDP, economic growth, business cycles.• Macroeconomic models.• Understanding recent and current macroeconomic
events.
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What is Macroeconomics?
• Models built to explain macroeconomic phenomena.• The important pheonomena are long-run growth and
business cycles.• Approach in this book is to build up macroeconomic
analysis from microeconomic principles.
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Gross Domestic Product, Economic Growth, and Business Cycles
• Gross Domestic Product (GDP): the quantity of goods and services produced within a country’s borders over a particular period of time.
• The time series of GDP can be separated into trend and business cycle components.
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Figure 1.1 Per Capita Real GDP (in 2005 dollars) for the United States, 1900–2011
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Figure 1.2Natural Logarithm of Per Capita Real GDP
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Figure 1.3Natural Logarithm of Per Capita Real GDP and Trend
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Figure 1.4Percentage Deviations from Trend in Per Capita Real GDP
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Macroeconomic Models
• A macroeconomic model captures the essential features of the world needed to analyze a particular macroeconomic problem.
• Macroeconomic models should be simple, but they need not be realistic.
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Basic Structure of a Macroeconomic Model
• Consumers and firms• The set of goods that consumers consume• Consumers’ preferences• The production technology• Resources available
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What do we learn from macroeconomic analysis?
• What is produced and consumed in the economy is determined jointly by the economy’s productive capacity and the preferences of consumers.
• In free market economies, there are strong forces that tend to produce socially efficient economic outcomes.
• Unemployment is painful for individuals, but it is a necessary evil in modern economies.
• Improvements in a country’s standard of living are brought about in the long run by technological progress.
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What do we learn from macroeconomic analysis? Part II
• A tax cut is not a free lunch.• Credit markets and banks play key roles in the
macroeconomy.• What consumers and firms anticipate for the future has
an important bearing on current macroeconomic events.• Money takes many forms, and society is much better
off with it than without it. Once we have it, however, changing its quantity ultimately does not matter.
• Business cycles are similar, but they can have many causes.
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What do we learn from macroeconomic analysis? Part III
• Countries gain from trading goods and assets with each other, but trade is also a source of shocks to the domestic economy.
• In the long run, inflation is caused by growth in the money supply.
• There may be a significant short run tradeoff bewteen aggregate output and inflation, but aside from inefficiencies caused by long run inflation, there is no long run tradeoff.
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Understanding Recent and Current Macroeconomics Events
• Aggregate productivity• Unemployment and vacancies• Taxes, Government Spending and the Government
Deficit• Inflation• Interest Rates• Business Cycles in the United States• Credit Markets and the Financial Crisis• The Current Account Surplus
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Figure 1.5Natural Logarithm of Average Productivity
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Figure 1.6The Unemployment Rate for the United States
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Figure 1.7The Beveridge Curve
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Figure 1.8Total Taxes and Total Government Spending
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Figure 1.9Total Government Surplus
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Figure 1.10The Inflation Rate and the Money Growth Rate
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Figure 1.11The Nominal Interest Rate and the Inflation Rate
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Figure 1.12Real Interest Rate
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Figure 1.13Percentage Deviation From Trend in Real GDP
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Figure 1.14Interest Rate Spread
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Figure 1.15Relative Price of Housing
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Figure 1.16Exports and Imports of Goods and Services
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Figure 1.17The Current Account Surplus