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What is autonomous consumption spending?
It is the part of consumption spending that is independent of income, depicted as a vertical line on the graph showing consumption at zero disposable income.
What is autonomous consumption spending dependent on?
It is dependent on assets (like houses), expectations of future income, difficulty of borrowing money, and minimum standards of living.
What caused the recessions in 1953, 1974, 1981, and 2001?
The government tried to tighten monetary policies to control inflation but gave up before achieving effective results.
What caused the expansions of the early 1950s, late 1960s, 1980s, and 1990s?
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What is the consumption function?
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How do changes in net taxes and autonomous consumption affect the consumption function?
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What is the Marginal Propensity to Consume (MPC)?
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What is Aggregate Expenditure (AE)?
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How do you find Short-Run (SR) equilibrium GDP?
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What causes cyclical unemployment in the Keynesian model?
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What is the expenditure multiplier?
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How does the expenditure multiplier work in reverse?
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How do automatic stabilizers reduce the multiplier?
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How does countercyclical fiscal policy work?
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Why does countercyclical fiscal policy fail?
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Study Notes
Autonomous Consumption Spending
- Autonomous consumption spending refers to consumption that occurs regardless of income level, represented graphically as a vertical line at zero disposable income.
Factors Influencing Autonomous Consumption
- Influenced by assets such as houses, expectations of future income, borrowing difficulties, and societal standards for minimum living conditions and poverty perceptions.
Causes of Recessions
- Recessions in 1953, 1974, 1981, and 2001 were triggered by government attempts to control inflation through tightening monetary policy during crises like the Korean War and the dot-com collapse.
Causes of Economic Expansions
- Economic expansions in the early 1950s, late 1960s, 1980s, and 1990s were driven by increased defense spending due to foreign conflicts, recovery from oil crises, and the tech boom of the internet.
Consumption Function
- The consumption function illustrates a positive relationship between real consumption and real disposable income, indicating higher consumption as disposable income rises.
Impact of Taxes and Autonomous Consumption
- A decrease in net taxes or an increase in autonomous consumption leads to an upward shift in the consumption function; conversely, increases in net taxes or decreases in consumption have the opposite effect.
Marginal Propensity to Consume (MPC)
- MPC is defined as the slope of the consumption function, representing how much consumption spending increases for every additional dollar of disposable income.
Aggregate Expenditure (AE)
- AE represents the total spending by households, businesses, governments, and foreign entities on U.S. produced goods and services over a specified time frame.
Finding Short-Run Equilibrium GDP
- Short-run equilibrium GDP is determined at the output level where aggregate expenditure equals overall output.
Cyclical Unemployment Causes
- Cyclical unemployment arises in the Keynesian model due to low total spending, resulting in decreased production and employment opportunities.
Expenditure Multiplier
- The expenditure multiplier measures the change in equilibrium real GDP caused by a one-dollar change in autonomous consumption, investment spending, government purchases, or net exports.
Reverse Operation of Expenditure Multiplier
- When investment spending decreases, equilibrium GDP falls by a multiplier effect similar to how increases in spending raise GDP.
Automatic Stabilizers and the Multiplier Effect
- Automatic stabilizers mitigate the multiplier effect by reducing the incremental spending in each round of the multiplier process, leading to a smaller overall impact on equilibrium GDP.
Countercyclical Fiscal Policy
- This policy involves adjusting government purchases or net taxes aimed at reversing or preventing economic recessions or booms.
Limitations of Countercyclical Fiscal Policy
- Countercyclical fiscal policy often fails as it relies on government intervention rather than allowing the private sector to adjust and stabilize the economy naturally.
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