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Introduction
National income accounting provides us with ex-post data about national income, it cannot explain the level and determinants of national income. The following identities are true for any level of income. In order to explain and predict the level of national income, models are constructed.
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Factor Owners
Consumers
Factor Income
Cost
Revenue
Expenditure
Capital gain is not income (Irving Fisher) Only the interest earned from the capital gain is considered as income
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Expenditure Approach C+I+G+X-M GDP at market price Indirect sales tax + Indirect subsidies GDP at factor cost
Factor Factor Income Income-from paid abroad abroad
Output Approach
+ Net income from abroad GNP at factor cost Depreciation NNP at factor cost 88 Income Approach W+I+R+P
NNP at factor cost Retained profits Social insurance / Mandatory Provident Fund Direct business Tax + Transfer payments Personal income Direct personal taxes Disposable personal income - Consumption = Saving 99
Income Approach
W+I+R+P = NNP at factor cost Profits are stated net of depreciation / capital consumption allowances If the figures exclude net income from abroad, NDP at factor cost can be obtained.
NDP at factor cost + Net income from abroad =
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Output Approach
The total value of the final goods and services produced by the primary / secondary / tertiary industries In order to avoid double counting, the value-added method is adopted to exclude intermediate goods.
GDP at factor cost + Indirect Taxes Indirect Subsidies =
Expenditure Approach
People spend their income. Thus, the total expenditure on final goods and services must be equal to the total value of final goods and services produced domestically. Any output that is not sold to consumers is bought by producers in the form of unintended inventory investment.
C+I+G+(X-M) = Aggregate / Total expenditure
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Expenditure Approach
Firms : plant (in progress) / unused raw materials Households : residential building Inventory investment : intended unintended (reduce information cost)
- gross domestic fixed capital formation* - change in stocks & work in progress *gross national fixed capital formation GNP at market prices Government Expenditure (G)
roads/education/medical & health services/law & order/public works/
salary to civil servants, NOT transfer payments at the cost to taxpayers, NOT at market prices Net Exports (X-M) the value of imports is included in C, I, G, X1313
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Size of Population
use per capital GNP
Income Distribution
more even distribution higher welfare
Exchange Rates
expressed in the same currency whether the exchange rates reflects the purchasing power of the 2 currencies
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Inflation
A general and sustained increase in the prices of all goods and services GNP deflator / GDP deflator Consumer Price Index (CPI) Producer Price Index (PPI) When constructing price indices different weighting will be given to different commodities reflecting their relative importance on the consumers expenditure A base year is chosen during which the economy experiences no economic crisis
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Clothing
Housing
Food
Possibility of Substitution
overstate the impact of inflation if consumers substitute cheaper goods for dearer goods
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Unemployment
Working Population OR Labour Force
Working Population=Employed+Unemployed+Self-employed
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Method of Analysis
Endogenous variable the value of the variable is determined inside the model ( x, y) Exogenous variable the value of the variable is determined by forces outside the model ( m, c) any change is regarded as autonomous
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