Friday, March 3, 2017

Unit 3: Increase in Aggregate Demand 2/17/17

Determinants of AD:
  • Consumption
  • Gross Private Domestic Investment (Ig)
  • Government Spending
  • Net Exports (Xn) = Exports - Imports
1. Change in Consumer Spending
- Consumer Wealth (Boom in stock market)
- Consumer Expectations (PPI fear a recession)
- Household Indebtedness (more consumer debt)
- Taxes (Decrease in income taxes)

2. Change in Investment Spending
- Real Interest Rates (Price of borrowing $)
                                  (If interest rates increase)
                                  (If interest rates decrease)
- Future Business Expectations (High expectation)
- Productivity & Technology (New robots)
- Business Taxes (Higher corporate taxes means...)
3. Changes in Government Spending
- (War...)
- (Nationalized Health Care)
- ( Decrease in defense spending)

4. Change in Net Exports (X - M)
- Exchange Rates
- (If US dollar depreciates relative to the euro National Income compared to abroad)
- (If the US has a recession)

AD = GDP = C + Ig + G + Xn

Government Spending:
- More govt spending (AD >)
- Less govt spending (AD<)



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