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NET EXPORTS OF GOODS AND SERVICES: The official item in the National Income and Product Accounts maintained by the Bureau of Economic Analysis measuring net exports by the foreign sector. Net exports of goods and services is the smallest of the four expenditures, averaging around 2% of gross domestic product. Unlike the other expenditures, net exports of goods and services can be either positive or negative. They are positive when exports are greater than imports and negative when exports are less than imports. In recent years, net exports of goods and services have been negative.
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Lesson 10: Gross Domestic Product | Unit 2: Looking Behind GDP
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In this unit, you should have learned something about:- Measuring economic production using market transactions.
- Market transactions of past and future production that are NOT economic production and are excluded from GDP.
- Economic production of in-kind activities that do NOT involve market transactions but are included in GDP.
- Economic production of home production that do NOT involve market transactions and are excluded from GDP.
- Economic production of illegal activities that do involve market transactions but are excluded from GDP.
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LONG-RUN AVERAGE COST The per unit cost of producing a good or service in the long run when all inputs under the control of the firm are variable. In other words, long-run total cost divided by the quantity of output produced. Long-run average cost is guided by returns to scale.
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It's estimated that the U.S. economy has about $20 million of counterfeit currency in circulation, less than 0.001 perecent of the total legal currency.
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