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MARKET TRANSACTION: The exchange of goods and services through a market. The set of market transactions taking place in the economy is most important in terms of measuring gross domestic product (GDP). Market transactions provide the basic data used by number crunchers at the Bureau of Economic Analysis to begin the estimation of GDP. However, these number crunchers don't just want to measure market transactions, their goal is to measure economic production. As such, they eliminate some market transactions that do not involve economic production, then add economic production that do not involve market transactions.
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Lesson 4: Production Possibilities | Unit 1: Getting Started
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- The basic production possibilities analysis.
- How the production possibilities analysis can be used to (a) help answer the "What?" question of allocation, (b) understand basic macroeconomic concepts, and (c) work with graphical analysis.
- The four assumptions of production possibilities analysis-two goods, fixed resources, fixed technology, and technical efficiency.
- The limitations of production possibilities analysis-it tells us what is possible, not what is best.
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INTEREST RATES, AGGREGATE EXPENDITURES DETERMINANT One of several specific aggregate expenditures determinants assumed constant when the aggregate expenditures line is constructed, and that shifts the aggregate expenditures line when it changes. A decrease in interest rates cause an increase (upward shift) of the aggregate expenditures line. An increase in interest rates cause a decrease (downward shift) of the aggregate expenditures line. Other notable aggregate expenditures determinants include consumer confidence, federal deficit, inflationary expectations, and exchange rates.
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