Lecture Note
University
John Jay College of Criminal JusticeCourse
ECO 220 | Intermediate MacroeconomicsPages
1
Academic year
2022
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Aggregate Accounting - Aggregate accounting (or national income accounting) is a set of rules and definitions for Measuring economic activity in the aggregate economy – that is, in the economy. - Aggregate accounting is a way of measuring total, or aggregate production - Gross domestic product is the total value of all final goods and services produced in an Economy in a one-year period Calculating GDP - Calculating GDP requires adding together millions of different services and products - All the quantities of goods and services produced are multiplied by their market price per Unit to determine a value measure of the good or service. - This is weighting the importance of each good by its price The Components of GDP - GDP is divides into four expenditure categories - Consumption is spending by households on goods and services - Investment is spending for the purpose of additional production - Government spending is goods and services that the government buys - Net exports is spending on exports minus spending on imports - Since production is categorized into one of these four divisions, by adding up these four Categories, we get total production of U.S goods and services
Understanding Aggregate Accounting and GDP Calculation
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