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Comprehensive Macroeconomics Study Guide

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Positive and Normative Statements

Production Possibilities Frontier (PPF) - Introduction and Productive Efficiency

PPF - Increasing Marginal Opportunity Costs and Allocative Efficiency

PPF - Outward Shifts

PPF - Comparative Advantage and Absolute Advantage

PPF - Comparative Advantage and Trade

Introduction to Supply and Demand

The Basics of Demand

Shifting Demand

The Basics of Supply

Shifting Supply

Supply and Demand Together: Equilibrium, Shortage, and Surplus

WIllingness to Pay and Consumer Surplus

Willingness to Sell and Producer Surplus

Economic Surplus and Efficiency

Price Ceilings, Price Floors, and Black Markets

Introducing Taxes and Tax Incidence

Effects of Taxes on a Market

Expenditure Approach for Measuring GDP

Detailed Explanation of GDP Components

Nominal GDP and Real GDP

Shortcomings of GDP

Labor Force and Unemployment

Types of Unemployment

Inflation and Consumer Price Index (CPI)

Using CPI to Adjust for Inflation

Nominal Income and Real Income

The Consumption Function

The Saving Function

Determinants of Consumption and Saving

Multiplier Effect of Investment Spending

Aggregate Expenditures Model and Macroeconomic Equilibrium

AE Model: Graphing Macroeconomic Equilibrium

AE Model: Private Closed Economy

AE Model: Private Open Economy

AE Model and the Multiplier

Aggregate Demand

Deriving Aggregate Demand from the Aggregate Expenditure Model

Shifting Aggregate Demand

Long Run Aggregate Supply

Short Run Aggregate Supply

Shifting Short Run Aggregate Supply

AD-AS Model: Equilibrium in the Short Run and Long Run

AD-AS Model: Shifts in Aggregate Demand

The Functions of Money; The Kinds of Money

Defining the Money Supply: M1 and M2

Required Reserves and the Deposit Multiplier

Introduction to the Federal Reserve

The Federal Reserve and the Money Supply

History of the US Banking System

The Financial Crisis of 2007-2009 (The Great Recession)

Monetary vs Fiscal Policy

Goals of Monetary Policy

The Demand for Money

The Money Supply on the Graph

Monetary Policy and Aggregate Demand

Expansionary and Contractionary Monetary Policy

Quantity Theory of Money

Federal Reserve Policies during the 2007-2009 Recession

Introduction to Fiscal Policy

Expansionary and Contractionary Fiscal Policy

Government Purchases and the Multiplier Effect

Taxes, the Multiplier Effect, and Automatic Stabilizers

Long Run Effects of Fiscal Policy

Criticisms of Fiscal Policy

The Laffer Curve

Short Run Phillips Curve

Long Run Phillips Curve

Phillips Curve and Expected Inflation

Phillips Curve and Supply Shocks

Sacrifice Ratio

Disinflation and Deflation

Long-Run Economic Growth

Growth Rates and the Rule of 70

Institutions that Promote Economic Growth