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What is GDP?
Gross Domestic Product.
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What is real GDP?
Value of final goods and services produced in a given year expressed in terms of the prices in a reference base year.
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What is the business cycle?
A periodic and irregular movement of total production and other measures of economic activity (e.g. employment and income)
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Name the people who work more than 35 hours per week, and those who work less than 35 hours per week.
Full-time workers and part-time workers.
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What is a final good?
Something produced for its final user and will not be used as a component of something else.
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What is nominal GDP?
Value of final goods and services produced in a given year expressed in terms of the prices in that same year.
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What is a recession?
A period where real GDP decreases for at least two successive quarters.
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What are involuntary part time workers?
People who work part-time for economic reasons. (They want a full-time job but can't find it)
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What is consumption expenditure?
The expenditure by households on consumption goods and services.
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What is quarterly real GDP?
The calculation of real GDP put out every 3 months by the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
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What is household production?
Production of goods and services inside the home (e.g cooking, cleaning, studying, etc.) This is not included in GDP.
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What is investment?
The purchase of new capital goods and additions to inventory.
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What is potential GDP?
The level of real GDP when all the economies factors of production are fully employed.
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What is underground production?
Production of goods and services illegally. This is omitted from GDP.
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What is statistical discrepancy?
The discrepancy between the expenditure approach and the income approach.
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What is real GDP per person?
real GDP divided by the population
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What is an expansion?
A period in which real GDP increases.
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