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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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Measuring GDP in the U.S. economy uses data involving $8 trillion of production, 270 million consumers, hundreds of thousands of businesses, and a huge number of market transactions.- The circle on the left represents all current economic production in the economy. This is what GDP seeks to measure.
- But GDP can not measure this directly. Information for measuring GDP comes from market transactions.
- The circle on the right represents all market transactions.
- Much of the economic production circle overlaps the market transaction circle. But each circle has a slice not contained in the other.
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AVERAGE REVENUE AND MARGINAL REVENUE A mathematical connection between average revenue and marginal revenue stating that the change in the average revenue depends on a comparison between average revenue and marginal revenue. For perfect competition, with no market control, marginal revenue is equal to average revenue, and average revenue does not change. For monopoly and other firms with market control, marginal revenue is less than average revenue, and average revenue falls.
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Paper money used by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts prior to the U.S. Revolutionary War, which was issued against the dictates of Britain, was designed by patriot and silversmith, Paul Revere.
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P/E Price-Earnings Ratio
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