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AGGREGATE OUTPUT: The macroeconomy's total production of final goods and services. You might recognized it by it's official term gross domestic product. Another related term is aggregate supply. This is the total production in the economy that is purchased by the four basic economic sectors -- household, business, government, and foreign. See also aggregate market, aggregate demand, aggregate expenditures.
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Lesson 10: Gross Domestic Product | Unit 5: Issues
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- The importance of GDP as an indicator of addressing the scarcity problem and in the analysis of business cycle instability.
- Deficiencies in measuring GDP: (1) it is only an indicator that requires interpretation and analysis, (2) it does not measure the distribution of production, and (3) it does not necessarily measure the satisfaction obtained from production.
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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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ARCH Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity
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