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Unit Four Vocab
Economics And Personal Finance Unit Four Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Contraction | The stage of the business cycle that sees a decrease in production, a decrease in prices and an increase in unemployment. |
Structural Unemployment | Unemployment that occurs when the available jobs do not match the skills of available workers. |
Business Cycle | The series of growing and shrinking periods of economic activity measured by increases or decreases in real GDP. |
Exchange Rate | It is represented by the value of one nation's currency relative to the currencies of other nations. |
Comparative Advantage | A country is said to have this when they are able to produce a product at a lower opportunity cost than other countries. |
Gross Domestic Product | The value of goods and services produced within a country's borders within a given time period (C+G+I+XN=?). |
Fiscal Policy | The use of taxes and government spending by congress to influence the money supply. |
Embargo | A trade barrier that prohibits all trade with another country, usually for political reasons. |
Market Basket | The value of commonly purchased items that is used to calculate the consumer price index. |
Inflation | A sustained increase in the general price level or a sustained fall in the purchasing power of money. |
Cyclical Unemployment | Unemployment caused by the part of the business cycle with decreased economic activity. |
Unemployment Rate | The percentage of the labor force that is jobless and actively looking for work. |
Economic Growth | An increase in the nation's real GDP. |
Frictional Unemployment | The temporary unemployment of workers moving from one job to another. |
Expansion | The part of the business cycle at the end of a trough that has increasing real GDP, increasing prices and decreasing unemployment. |
Consumer Price Index | A measure of the changes in the prices of goods and services that consumers commonly purchase. |
Full Employment | When the country has an unemployment rate between 4% and 6%, it is said to be at this. |
Real GDP | The gross domestic product adjusted for inflation. |
Trade Barriers | Any restrictions placed on international trade by a trading nation. |
Peak | The stage of the business cycle at the end of a expansion period. |
Quota | A specific quantity limit placed in imported goods from another country. |
Expansionary Fiscal Policy | The use of decreased taxes and increased spending to increase the money supply. |
Seasonal Unemployment | This occurs as a result of jobs that are available only during a specific time of the year. |
Consumer Consumption | The part of the GDP that is represented by the total amount of goods and services purchased by consumers. |
Tariff | A tax placed on imported goods from another country. |
Net Exports | The balance of the value of goods and services produced in this country and sold in another country and the values of goods and services imported from other countries. |
Government Spending | The part of the GDP that is represented by the value of goods and services purchased by the government. |
Trough | The stage of the business cycle that occurs at the end of a contraction. |
Contractionary Fiscal Policy | The use of increased taxes and decreased spending to decrease the money supply. |
Business Investment | The portion of the GDP that is represented by the expenditures of businesses to grow their businesses. |