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SMacroeconomics Part 1
SMacroeconomics Part 1
Khang)
• Academic Qualification:
Master of Business Administration at RMIT Vietnam
English Certificate at Churhchill House School in Spencer
Square, Ramsgate, Kent, England.
• Occupation:
Vice General Director at FARMEXCO II Ltd.
• Contact:
Email: khangnguyenmba@gmail.com
Cell: 0886 343434
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Overviews of macroeconomics
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Contents
Concepts
Macroeconomics issues
Macro policies and objectives
Models
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Concepts
What is economics?
The problem of scarcity
achieve the
most wants
with
given resources
at available
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10 principles of economics
1. People face trade-offs
2. The cost of something is what you give up to get it
3. Rational people think at the margin
4. People respond to incentives
5. Trade can make everyone better off
6. Markets are usually a good way to organize economic activity
7. Governments can sometimes improve market outcomes
8. A country's standard of living depends on its ability to produce goods and services
9. Prices rise when the government prints too much money
10. Society faces a short-run tradeoff between Inflation and unemployment.
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Macroeconomics versus microeconomics
The study of economywide phenomena, The study of how households and
including inflation, unemployment, and firms make decisions and how they
economic growth interact in markets
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Positive versus Normative EconomicsC
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Economics growth
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Business cycle
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Employment and Unemployment
Employment (E): number of employed workers
Unemployment (U): jobless, looking for jobs,
available for works
Labor force (L): L = U + E
Unemployment rate = U/L *100
• natural unemployment (frictional &
structural unemployment)
• cyclical unemployment
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Employment and Unemployment
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Employment and Unemployment
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1. Which of the following about discouraged workers would
be correct? They are
a. counted in the labor force.
b. not counted in the labor force or unemployment
numbers.
c. counted in the labor force and the unemployment
numbers.
d. not counted in the labor force but are counted in the
unemployment numbers.
2. Workers temporarily unemployed but who normally find
jobs quickly are called
a. frictionally unemployed.
b. cyclically unemployed.
c. seasonally unemployed.
d. structurally unemployed.
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Inflation
Inflation: the price level (average level of price) rises
over the year
Deflation: the price level decreases over the year
Disinflation: the general price level slowly rises over the year
Price level: Average price of goods & services, based on
Price Index (CPI, PPI, OPI - GDP deflator)
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Inflation
Price index in 2007 is 160% and its 180% in 2008.
Rate of inflation in 2008 is
a. 112.5%
b. 20%
c. 12.5%
d. All wrong
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1. If the CPI is 109 one year and 112 the next, the annual rate of
inflation is measured by the CPI is approximately
a. 1.45%.
b. 2.75%.
c. 3.6%.
d. 4.9%
2. Inflation rate of last year and this year are 5% and 4 %
respectively, this case is
a. deflation.
b. disinflation.
c. inflation.
d. hyperinflation.
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The Exchange Rate and the Balance of Payments
The balance of payments is a systematic record of all economic
transactions between the members of the home country and
the rest of the world in an accounting year. These transactions
are largely, if not entirely, influenced by the exchange rate - It is
the rate at which a country’s economy is exchanged for another
currency (or gold).
1. Current account
BoP = 1 + 2 + 3
2. Capital account
1+2+3+4=0 3. Errors & Omissions
4. Reserves & Related Items
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The Exchange Rate and the Balance of Payments
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The steps in the model-building process
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More about models
• A model is a simplified view of reality.
• It sets out the relationship between variables; causes and
effects.
• A model is valid when it enables economists to forecast or
predict the results of various changes in variables.
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Example: petrol consumption
• Identifying the problem
• Petrol consumption has fallen. Why?
• Developing a model
• Select variables price of petrol, price of cars.
• Express them verbally, graphically or mathematically.
• Testing the model
• Gather data which tells us how well the model estimates
or predicts relationships.
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Hazards of the economic way of thinking
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Hazards of the economic way of thinking
Ceteris paribus
• Ceteris (pronounced ‘keteris’) paribus is a Latin phrase
which means ‘other things remaining unchanged’.
• Economists use this method as it enables them to see how a
change in one variable affects the overall outcome.
• Imagine: if all the variables change at the same time, how
would we know which one caused the change?
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Hazards of the economic way of thinking
Association vs. causation
• We cannot always assume that when one event follows another,
the first caused the second.
• For example, assume exports from Indonesia rose last month.
Two events might be associated:
• The hole in the ozone layer grew last month.
• Currency movements reduced the cost to Australians of
buying Indonesian goods.
• But are they both possible causes?
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Revision: the law of demand
• There is an inverse relationship between the price of a good
and the quantity buyers are willing to purchase in a defined
time period, ceteris paribus.
• A demand schedule (table) shows the specific quantity of a
good or service that people are willing and able to buy at
different prices.
• The demand curve shows the relationship between price and
quantity demanded.
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Revision: the law of demand
If price changes
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Revision: the law of demand
If non-price factors change
• This is known as a change
in demand.
• That is, the demand curve
shifts.
• Rightward shift indicates
demand increasing.
• Non-price factors:
number of buyers in the market
tastes and preferences
income
expectations of buyers
prices of related goods.
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Revision: the law of supply
• There is a direct relationship between the price of a good and
the quantity sellers are willing to offer for sale in a defined
time period, ceteris paribus.
• The supply schedule (table) shows the quantity of a good or
service that firms are willing and able to offer for sale at
different prices.
• The supply curve depicts the relationship between price and
quantity supplied.
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Revision: the law of supply
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Changes in supply
• A change in non-price
factors is known as a
change in supply; i.e., the
supply curve shifts.
• Rightward shift indicates
supply increasing.
• Non-price factors
number of sellers in the market
technology available
input prices
taxes and subsidies
expectations of producers
prices of other goods the firm could produce
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Revision: Equilibrium
• A market condition that occurs at any price for which the
quantity demanded and the quantity supplied are equal.
• Equilibrium is the ‘point of balance’ between demand and
supply in the market.
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Revision: price ceiling
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Revision: price floor
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The Circular-Flow Diagram
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National Income Identities
I+G+X=M+S+T
Injections = Withdrawals
I = S + (T - G) + (M -X)
Investment = Savings
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Aggregate Supply – Aggregate Demand model (AS-AD)
Aggregate Demand (AD)
AD = C + I + G + X - M
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Aggregate Supply – Aggregate Demand model (AS-AD)
Aggregate Demand (AD): non-price factors
• Consumption spending ( C ): size of the population, consumer
confidence, interest rates, income, employment and wealth,
taxes
• Investment spending (I): interest rates, taxes, costs of inputs
• Export spending (X)
• Import spending (M)
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Aggregate Supply – Aggregate Demand model (AS-AD)
Short-run Aggregate Supply (SRAS)
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Factors affects Short-run Aggregate Supply (SRAS)
1.price of inputs - if there was a substantial increase in the price of resources such as
labor or energy, then there would be an increase in the costs of producing “stuff” and
that cost would be passed on as higher prices. This is seen as an inward shift in the
AS curve
2.quantity of inputs - if there was a substantial increase in the number of people
working then there would be an increase in the productive capacity of the country.
This would be seen as an outward shift in the AS curve.
3.productivity of inputs - if there was a substantial increase in productivity, then
there would be an increase in the productive capacity of the country. This would be
seen as an outward shift in the AS curve
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Aggregate Supply – Aggregate Demand model (AS-AD)
Long-run Aggregate Supply (LRAS):
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