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ECO121- GROUP ASSIGNMENT

GROUP 1

Topic 1: MEASURING NATION’S INCOME AND LIVING STANDARD

1. What is Gross Domestic Product (GDP)? What are the components of GDP? How
is GDP corrected for inflation? (Chapter 23)

2. What is the Consumer Price Index (CPI)? How is it calculated? What’s it used
for? How does the CPI differ from the GDP deflator? (Chapter 24)

3. What are the facts about living standards and growth rates around the world? Why
does productivity matter for living standards? What determines productivity and its
growth rate? How can public policy affect growth and living standards? (Chatper 25)

GROUP 2

Topic 2: SAVING, INVESTMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENTN IN

MACROECONOMICS

1. What are the three kinds of saving? What’s the difference between saving and
investment? How does the financial system coordinate save and investment? How do
government policies affect saving, investment, and the interest rate? (Chapter 26)

2. What is unemployment? How is unemployment measured? What is the “natural

rate of unemployment”? give example. Why are there always some people
unemployed? Please describe some types of unemployment in the economy? What is
the theory of efficiency wages, and how does it help explain unemployment? (Chatper
28)

GROUP 3

Topic 3: MONETARY SYSTEMS AND INFLATION

1. What assets are considered “money”? What are the functions of money? The types
of money? What role do banks play in the monetary system? How do banks “create
money”? How does the Federal Reserve control the money supply? (chatper 29)

2. How does the money supply affect inflation and nominal interest rates? Does the
money supply affect real variables like real GDP or the real interest rate? What are
the costs of inflation? (Chapter 30)
GROUP 4

Topic 4: MACROECONOMICS THEORY OF THE OPEN ECONOMY

1. How are international flows of goods and assets related? What’s the difference
between the real and nominal exchange rate? What is “purchasing-power parity,” and
how does it explain nominal exchange rates? (Chapter 31).

2. In an open economy, what determines the real interest rate? The real exchange
rate? How are the markets for loanable funds and foreign-currency exchange
connected? How do government budget deficits affect the exchange rate and trade
balance? How do other policies or events affect the interest rate, exchange rate, and
trade balance? (Chapter 32).

GROUP 3

Topic 5: AGGREGATE DEMAND, AGGREGATE SUPPLY AND INFLUENCE

OF THE MONETARY AND FISCAL POLICIES

1. How does the model of aggregate demand and aggregate supply explain economic
fluctuations? Why does the Aggregate-Demand curve slope downward? What shifts
the AD curve? What is the slope of the Aggregate-Supply curve in the short run? In
the long run? What shifts the AS curve(s)? (chapter 33)

2. How does the interest-rate effect help explain the slope of the aggregate-demand
curve? How can the central bank use monetary policy to shift the AD curve? In what
two ways does fiscal policy affect aggregate demand? (Chapter 34)

Deadline submit report 19/03/2023