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MARSHALLIAN CROSS: The standard market diagram, so beloved by undergraduate economics students, with price measured on the vertical axis and quantity measured on the horizontal axis, that presents the law of demand as a downward-sloping demand curve and the law of supply as an upward-sloping supply curve. The derivation of this name comes from it's creator, Alfred Marshall, and that market equilibrium is achieved where the demand and supply curves intersect, or "cross."

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Lesson 12: Business Cycles | Unit 3: Measurement Page: 15 of 26

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Lagging economic indicators lag the turning points of business cycles by 3 to 12 months.
  • Lagging indicators 'seal the deal' by certifying that a contraction or an expansion is over.
  • The next turning point usually doesn't begin until lagging indicators confirm that the last one has happened.
  • Seven statistics are used as lagging indicators, including in the inflation rate, consumer debt, and the prime interest rate.
  • The Composite Index of Lagging Indicators, displayed in this graph, combines all seven into a single number. This index turns after the official business cycle.

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PERFECT COMPETITION, PROFIT MAXIMIZATION

A perfectly competitive firm is presumed to produce the quantity of output that maximizes economic profit--the difference between total revenue and total cost. This production decision can be analyzed directly with economic profit, by identifying the greatest difference between total revenue and total cost, or by the equality between marginal revenue and marginal cost.

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