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MEASURE OF VALUE: The money function in which money is used as the common benchmark to designate the prices of goods throughout the economy. Measure of value, or unit of account, means money is functioning as the measuring unit for prices. In other words, prices of goods are stated in terms of the monetary unit. This is one of four basic functions of money. The other three are medium of exchange, store of value, and standard of deferred payment.

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Lesson 8: Market Shocks | Unit 2: Determinants Page: 6 of 20

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Five basic supply determinants:
  • Resource prices: Higher prices of inputs such as labor, land, and raw material, decrease supply.
  • Technology: Improved technology means an increase in supply.
  • Prices of other goods: An increase in the price of a substitute-in-production, decreases supply. An increase in the price of a complement-in-production, increases supply.
  • Seller's expectations: If sellers expect higher prices tomorrow, they decrease supply today.
  • Number of sellers: More sellers mean more supply.

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LAGGING ECONOMIC INDICATORS

Seven economic statistics that tend to move up or down a few months AFTER business-cycle expansions and contractions. Most importantly, these measures indicate peak and trough turning points about three to twelve months after they occur. Lagging economic indicators are one of three groups of economic measures used to track business-cycle activity. The other two are coincident economic indicators and leading economic indicators.

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Only 1% of the U.S. population paid income taxes when the income tax was established in 1914.
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