Sunday, March 1, 2015

Full employment 
Full employment equilibrium exists where AD intersects SRAS & LRAS at the same point
Recessionary GAP

  • A recessionary gap exists when equilibrium occurs below full employment out put 
  • Anytime have recessionary gap graph move to the left.
inflationary GA
  •  An inflationary GAP exists when equilibrium occurs beyond full employment output
  • Ad will move to the right
Investment Demand
Interest Rate

what is investment?
  • Money spent of expenditures on
  • New plant (factories)
  • Capital equipment (machinery)
  • Technology (hardware software)
  • New homes
  • Inventories (goods sold by produces
Expected Rate of Return
  • How does business determine the benefits?
  • How does business count the cost
  • Interest Cost
  • How does business determine the amount of investment my undertake
  • Compare expected rate of return to interest cost
  • If expected return> interest cost
  • If expected return< interest cost then do not interest.
Real (r%) v. Nominal (I%) 
what's the difference?
  • Nominal is the observable rate of interest. real subtract out inflation (pie%) and is only known ex post factor
  • how do you complete the real interest rate (r%)
  • r%= I%- pie%
  • what then determine the cost of an investment decision?
  • The real interest rate (r%)

1 comment:

  1. Usually the inflationary gap is the unattainable point in the PPC because we don't have enough resources or the technology. I love your blog btw :)!

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