Focus Topics for Test#7-Friday, April 23rd ‘04

 

Study and know very well the following topics:

 

Topic#1-Miscellaneous Themes

 

·          The ten (10) principles of economics and the three (3) categories into which they are organized

 

·          Study and know how to calculate slopes of demand and supply curves and the meanings of positive vs negative vs vertical and horizontal slopes (Study the Mathematical Appendix in your Textbook)

 

Topic#2-The Keynesian Income-Expenditure Method

 

·          The effect of multiplier on autonomous macroeconomic aggregates

 

·          Injection and leakage variables in Keynesian models

 

·          Differences between Keynesian and Classical Models

 

·          Concepts of short-run and long run Phillips Curve

 

·          Relationship between the rates of inflation and unemployment in the short-run and the long-run

 

·          Concept of macroeconomic stabilization

 

·          Policy objectives of macroeconomic stabilization

 

Topic#3-Inflation

 

·          Computation of the rate of inflation and rate of deflation

 

·          Interpretation of the rate of inflation and rate of deflation

 

·          Definition of the consequences or costs of inflation

 

·          Definition of demand-pull inflation

 

·          Definition of cost-push inflation

 

·          Definition of Wage-Price spiral

 

·          Definition of excessive government spending and monetary expansion

 

·          Relationship between inflation and interest rate (real and nominal)

 

·          Definitions of Price indices: CPI, PPI and GDP Deflator

 

·          Purposes of price indices and their limitations

 

·          Five (5) steps used to construct price indices

 

 

Topic#4-Labor Force and Population

 

  • Definitions of labor force and population

 

  • Definition of underemployment

 

  • Definition of Full-employment

 

  • Definition of “Willingness to work” and “Actively seeking employment”(BLS)

 

  • Computation of rates of :

 

  • Employment

 

  • Unemployment

 

  • Labor force Participation,

 

  • Underemployment

 

  • Definition and differences types of unemployment:

 

  • Structural

 

  • Frictional

 

  • Cyclical

 

  • Technological

 

  • Seasonal

 

  • Classical: Voluntary and involuntary

 

  • Natural Rate of Unemployment

 

 

Topic#5-Money and Banking

 

  • Definition of Money
  • Properties of Money
  • Functions of Money
  • Definition of Commodity Money
  • Definition of Fiat Money
  • Definition of Representative Money
  • Definition of Money Supply in the US economy:M1, M2 and M3
  • Functions of Central Bank (Federal Reserve Bank in US)