Macro Unit 3 Review List

handouts & visuals especially helpful

  • Factors explaining downward slope of AD Curve
     Interest Rate Effect, Wealth (Real Balances) Effect,
     Foreign Purchases Effect (activity #23)
 
  • Be able to graph Recessionary & Inflationary gaps 
    in both AS/AD & Keynesian models
  • Different Ranges of AS Curve & accompanying 
    economic conditions (activity #17)
 
  • Fiscal Policy:  2 Types  (activity #30)
    1.  Taxing
    2.  Spending         (or a combination of the two)
  • relationship of LRAS & PPC (activity #29)
 
  • Demand & supply shocks & their impact on economy
    (activity #27)
 
  • Explain why Wages & Prices downwardly inflexible 
    according to Keynesians (activity #21)
 
  • Discretionary & Automatic Fiscal Policy
    (activity #31)
  • Which theory wants Economics to intervene to help 
    "correct" the economy?
 
  • Balanced Budget Multiplier
  • MPC & MPS  What do they signify? 
    What is their relationship to Disposable Income?
    (activity #20)
 
  • Rational Expectations Approach
  • Simplified (spending) Multiplier  (activity #21)
    How is it determined and what is its effect?
 
  • Monetarism

 

 
  • Supply Side Economics

 

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