Macro-Economics notes:
Goals of the government:

Price stability
Economic Growth
Balanced current account (money coming in VS money going out of the country)
Full employment

Key Macro economics indicators:

the inflation rate
changes in real GDP
The current account balance
The unemployment rate

Savings and investments:

Savings is income not spent i.e. buying shares, term deposit
Financial institutions use household savings as loans to firms for investments
Investment=adding to the stock of capital goods
therefore, the level of investment depends on the level of savings, the state of the economy, business confidence and interest rates
Banks depend on household savings because they are the funds they use to lend out to firms for investment in capital goods. If savings are low, then banks must borrow from overseas to provide funds for firms.

Withdrawals (leverages): money taken out of the circular flow e.g. savings, taxes, import payments. They reduce the level of demand in the economy.
Injections: Money put into the circular flow e.g. investments, government spending, export receipts. They will increase the level of demand in the economy (transfer payments are not strictly injections).

Limitations of circular flow:

Not all flows are shown
distinction between flows are not always straight forward
Changes in the price level are ignored

Gross domestic product (GDP):
GDP= The market value of all the final goods and services produced by an economy in a year.
There are three approaches to measuring GDP:

Expenditure method
Income method
Production method (not assessed)

Expenditure approach

This is the sum of the value of purchases of all final goods and services produced in the economy.

GDP=C+I+G+R+(X-M)

+Stat discrepancy (balancing item)

C= Consumer spending
I= Investment spending by firms and government
G= Final consumption spending by government
R= Changes in stocks/inventories
X-M= Net exports (export receipts-import payments)

	Created by ching__e about 11 years ago

Economics notes from my book