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FIXED INVESTMENT: Capital investment expenditures for factories, machinery, tools, and buildings. This is one of two main categories of gross private domestic investment included in the National Income and Product Accounts maintained by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The other category is change in business inventories. This is that category is about generally about 95-97% of gross private domestic investment and that includes the capital goods that best reflects what most people consider capital investment. This category includes factories, machinery, tools, and buildings.

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Lesson 10: Gross Domestic Product | Unit 3: Two Views of GDP Page: 15 of 25

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The four sectors of the economy buy ALL current economic production and when aggregated give us GDP.

The four sectors and their expenditures:

  1. Household: Consumption (C).
  2. Business: Investment (I).
  3. Government: Government Expenditures (G).
  4. Foreign: Net Exports (X-M), the difference between Exports (X) and Imports (I).
Expenditures on GDP: GDP = C + I + G + (X-M)
  • C, I and G buy not just domestic goods and services, but also imports.
  • When we aggregate C, I, G and X we have domestic production plus imports. To measure only domestic production, we subtract imports (M).

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AUTONOMOUS EXPORTS

Exports to the foreign sector that do not depend on domestic income or production (especially national income or gross domestic product). Exports depend on foreign income or production, but not on domestic income or production. While other expenditures have both autonomous and induced components, exports are exclusively autonomous. Autonomous exports are a key part of the autonomous part of net exports. Induced net exports are due to induced imports.

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