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AGGREGATE EXPENDITURE DETERMINANT: A ceteris paribus factor that affects aggregate expenditures, but which is assumed constant when the aggregate expenditure line is constructed. Changes in any of the aggregate expenditures determinants cause the aggregate expenditure line to shift. While a wide variety of specific ceteris paribus factors can cause the aggregate expenditure line to shift, it's usually most convenient to group them into the four, broad expenditure categories -- consumption, investment, government purchases, and net exports. The reason is that changes in these expenditures are the direct cause of shifts in the aggregate expenditure line. If any determinant affects aggregate expenditures it MUST affect one of these four expenditures.

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Lesson 11: Circular Flow | Unit 2: Financial Markets Page: 10 of 22

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  • The main function of financial markets, which is to divert national income from household consumption to business investment.
  • The difference between the real or physical side of the economy (the production of goods that satisfy wants and needs) and the paper or financial side (legal claims on or ownership of physical resources, goods, and production).
  • How income is diverted from legal-claim buyer to legal-claim seller through the financial markets.
  • Why saving can be thought as a nonconsumption use of income, as making a loan, or as supplying income to the financial markets in exchange for a legal claim.
  • Two basic reasons to save: (1) in return for an interest payment or (2) to accumulate income that can be spent later.
  • Investment, which is business sector expenditures on gross domestic product for capital goods.
  • How the business sector borrows income through financial markets and uses this income flow to finance capital investment.
  • Why adding saving, investment, and financial markets does not change the total volume of the circular flow.
  • That imbalances between saving and investment trigger economic stability, business cycles, unemployment, and inflation.

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AGGREGATE EXPENDITURES DETERMINANTS

Ceteris paribus factors, other than aggregate income or production, that are held constant when the aggregate expenditures line is constructed and which cause the aggregate expenditures line to shift when they change. Some of the more important aggregate expenditures determinants are interest rates, expectations, fiscal policy, wealth, and exchange rates.

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