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RECESSIONARY GAP: The difference between the equilibrium real production achieved in the short-run aggregate market and full-employment real production the occurs when short-run equilibrium real production is less than full-employment real production. A recessionary gap, also termed a contractionary gap, is associated with a business-cycle contraction. This is one of two alternative output gaps that can occur when short-run production differs from full employment. The other is an inflationary gap.

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Lesson 11: Circular Flow | Unit 4: Foreign Page: 16 of 22

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The foreign sector is the fourth and last circular flow sector.
  • The foreign sector is households, businesses, and governments outside the domestic economy (including other planets).
  • Market exchanges are a natural means of addressing the scarcity problem. Mutually beneficial exchanges aren't limited by geographic location or political boundaries.
  • Foreign trade, the exchange among buyers and sellers in different nations, is an extension of mutually beneficial exchanges among people of the same country.
  • Foreign trade gives us the terms exports and imports.

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PRINCIPLE OF MINIMUM DIFFERENCES

A principle stating that monopolistically competitive firms seek to maintain similarities between products at the same time they promote differences. Similarities enable substitutability, such that one firm can attract the buyers away from other firms. Differences enable uniqueness and market control, such that each firm has market control and is able to charge a higher price than achieved with perfect competition. This principle is also termed Hotelling's paradox.

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