参考号:EM1347997
Question 1)Explain whether the following transactions are counted in the GDP. If so, denote whether the expenditure approach would categorize the spending as C (household consumption), G (government spending), I (gross private investment), EX (exports) or I (imports).
A. A housing developer sells 25 homes in a new subdivision in Central California to 25 different households.
B.一家漫画店向一个狂热的收藏家出售了1998年复古蜘蛛侠漫画。
C. General Motors sells a fleet of trucks to the US Postal Service.
D. Subway从加利福尼亚购买了2吨鳄梨。
E. Subway buys 2 tons of avocados from Mexico.
Question 2)The market basket for an imaginary consumer is given below, as are the prices over the course of three years.
A. Create a Consumer Price Index with Year 2 as the base year.
B.从1年级到第二年的通货膨胀水平是多少?从2年级到3年级怎么样?
C. Why might the inflation rate be overstated by the CPI?
Question 3)。考虑到小国有15名年龄至少16岁的居民,3个退休,有3个学生,2家作为书记员的工作,两家乡村商店,2家在乡村银行工作,目前正在寻找工作,但在上个月没有工作,1拥有并经营该国所有业务,而1则在监狱中。
A. What is the unemployment rate?
B. What is the labor force participation rate?
c .考虑2当前解雇的ed workers become discouraged and stop looking for work. What would be the new unemployment and labor force participation rates?
Question 4)。Consider Small Country has 4 households and 3 businesses. Each of the 4 households purchased $20,000 in food and gasoline consumption and $3,000 in movie tickets this year.
Two households purchased a new $10,000 car produced in Small Country and one household purchased the used 2-year old car being replaced by one of those households for $4,000. One household purchased a newly constructed house for $100,000.
这三个业务中的每一个都花了15,000美元在新计算机上,而现有的计算机则贬值了3,000美元。他们每个人都花了5,000美元用于用于从小国其他业务生产其最终产品的中间投入。每家企业在年底向其目前的股票增加了1,000美元的库存。
The government of small country spent $10,000 on paper and $12,000 on new computers.
现有计算机贬值了$ 4,000。
Small Country exported $12,000 worth of socks and imported all of its gasoline ($15,000 worth).
A.使用支出方法计算小国的国内生产总值(GDP = C + I + G + NX)。
B.假设我们使用收入方法来计算小国的GDP。为什么我们必须将折旧添加到国民收入中才能到达GDP?
Question5)。The Washington Post recently ran an article discussing the current status of labor force participation and unemployment in the United States, positing many theories about why labor force participation has fallen.
答:什么表明,即使失业率下降,劳动力市场仍然不太强劲?解释劳动力参与率下降的可能性可能导致失业率降低。
B. Why does the author suggest that a labor force shrinking due to discouraged workers is worse for the country than a labor force shrinking due to students staying in school longer?