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Principles of
Macroeconomics, 9e
; ; By
Karl E. Case,
Ray C. Fair &
Sharon M. Oster

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 PART II CONCEPTS AND PROBLEMS
IN MACROECONOMICS

Measuring National
Output and National
6
Income

Prepared by:
Fernando & Yvonn Quijano

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 PART II CONCEPTS AND PROBLEMS
IN MACROECONOMICS

Measuring National
Output and National
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Income
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CHAPTER OUTLINE
Gross Domestic Product
Final Goods and Services
Exclusion of Used Goods and Paper
Transactions
Exclusion of Output Produced Abroad by
Domestically Owned Factors of
Production
Calculating GDP
The Expenditure Approach
The Income Approach
Nominal versus Real GDP
Calculating Real GDP
Calculating the GDP Deflator
The Problems of Fixed Weights
Limitations of the GDP Concept
GDP and Social Welfare
The Underground Economy
Gross National Income per Capita
Looking Ahead

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national income and product accounts Data

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collected and published by the government

describing the various components of national
income and output in the economy.

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 Gross Domestic Product

gross domestic product (GDP) The total market

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value of all final goods and services produced

within a given period by factors of production
located within a country.

GDP is the total market value of a country’s output.

It is the market value of all final goods and
services produced within a given period of time by
factors of production located within a country.

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 Gross Domestic Product
Final Goods and Services

final goods and services Goods and services

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produced for final use.

intermediate goods Goods that are produced by

one firm for use in further processing by another
firm.

value added The difference between the value of

goods as they leave a stage of production and the
cost of the goods as they entered that stage.

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 Gross Domestic Product
Final Goods and Services

In calculating GDP, we can sum up the value

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added at each stage of production or we can take

the value of final sales. We do not use the value
of total sales in an economy to measure how much
output has been produced.

TABLE 6.1 Value Added in the Production of a Gallon of

Gasoline (Hypothetical Numbers)
Stage Of Production Value Of Sales Value Added
(1) Oil drilling $3.00 $3.00

(2) Refining 3.30 0.30

(3) Shipping 3.60 0.30

(4) Retail sale 4.00 0.40

Total value added $4.00

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 Gross Domestic Product
Exclusion of Used Goods and Paper Transactions

GDP is concerned only with new, or current,

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production. Old output is not counted in current

GDP because it was already counted when it was
produced.

GDP does not count transactions in which money

or goods changes hands but in which no new
goods and services are produced.

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 Gross Domestic Product
Exclusion of Output Produced Abroad by Domestically Owned Factors
of Production
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GDP is the value of output produced by factors of

production located within a country.

gross national product (GNP) The total market

value of all final goods and services produced
within a given period by factors of production
owned by a country’s citizens, regardless of where
the output is produced.

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 Calculating GDP
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expenditure approach A method of computing

GDP that measures the total amount spent on all
final goods and services during a given period.

income approach A method of computing GDP

that measures the income—wages, rents, interest,
and profits—received by all factors of production in
producing final goods and services.

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 Calculating GDP
The Expenditure Approach

There are four main categories of expenditure:

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Personal consumption expenditures (C):

household spending on consumer goods

Gross private domestic investment (I):

spending by firms and households on new
capital, that is, plant, equipment, inventory,
and new residential structures

Government consumption and gross

investment (G)

Net exports (EX - IM): net spending by the

rest of the world, or exports (EX) minus
imports (IM)

GDP = C + I + G + (EX - IM)

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The Expenditure Approach

TABLE 6.2 Components of U.S. GDP, 2007: The Expenditure Approach

Billions Of Dollars Percentage of GDP
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Personal consumption expenditures (C) 9,734.2 70.3

Durable goods 1,078.2 7.8
Nondurable goods 2,833.2 20.5
Services 5,822.8 42.1
Gross private domestic investment (l) 2,125.4 15.4
Nonresidential 1,481.8 10.7
Residential 640.7 4.6
Change in business inventories 2.9 0.0
Government consumption and gross 2,689.8 19.4
investment (G)
Federal 976.0 7.1
State and local 1,713.8 12.4
Net exports (EX – IM) -708.0 - 5.1
Exports (EX) 1,643.0 11.9
Imports (IM) 2,351.0 17.0
Gross domestic product 13,841.3 100.0
Note: Numbers may not add exactly because of rounding.
Source: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis.

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Personal Consumption Expenditures (C)

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personal consumption expenditures (C)

Expenditures by consumers on goods and
services.

durable goods Goods that last a relatively long

time, such as cars and household appliances.

nondurable goods Goods that are used up fairly

quickly, such as food and clothing.

services The things we buy that do not involve

the production of physical things, such as legal
and medical services and education.

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The Expenditure Approach

Personal Consumption Expenditures (C)

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Where Does eBay

Get Counted?
So do any of eBay’s services
count as part of GDP? eBay’s
business is to provide a
marketplace for exchange. In
doing so, it uses labor and
capital and creates value. In
return for creating this value,
eBay charges fees to the sellers that use its site. The value of these
fees do enter into GDP. So while the old knickknacks that people
sell on eBay do not contribute to current GDP, the cost of finding an
interested buyer for those old goods does indeed get counted.

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 Calculating GDP
The Expenditure Approach

Gross Private Domestic Investment (I)

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gross private domestic investment (I) Total

investment in capital—that is, the purchase of new
housing, plants, equipment, and inventory by the
private (or nongovernment) sector.

nonresidential investment Expenditures by

firms for machines, tools, plants, and so on.

residential investment Expenditures by

households and firms on new houses and
apartment buildings.

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 Calculating GDP
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Gross Private Domestic Investment (I)

Change in Business Inventories
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change in business inventories The amount by

which firms’ inventories change during a period.
Inventories are the goods that firms produce now
but intend to sell later.

GDP = Final sales + Change in business inventories

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 Calculating GDP
The Expenditure Approach

Gross Private Domestic Investment (I)

Gross Investment versus Net Investment
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depreciation The amount by which an asset’s

value falls in a given period.

gross investment The total value of all newly

produced capital goods (plant, equipment,
housing, and inventory) produced in a given
period.

net investment Gross investment minus

depreciation.

capitalend of period = capitalbeginning of period + net investment

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Government Consumption and Gross Investment (G)

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government consumption and gross

investment (G) Expenditures by federal, state,
and local governments for final goods and
services.

Net Exports (EX - IM)

net exports (EX - IM) The difference between

exports (sales to foreigners of U.S.-produced
goods and services) and imports (U.S. purchases
of goods and services from abroad). The figure
can be positive or negative.

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 Calculating GDP
The Income Approach

national income The total income earned by the

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factors of production owned by a country’s

citizens.

TABLE 6.3 National Income, 2007

Billions of Percentage of
Dollars National Income
National Income 12,221.1 100.0
Compensation of employees 7,874.2 64.4
Proprietors’ income 1,042.6 8.5
Rental income 65.4 0.5
Corporate profits 1,598.2 13.1
Net interest 602.6 4.9
Indirect taxes minus subsidies 961.4 7.9
Net business transfer payments 94.2 0.8
Surplus of government enterprises -14.5 -0.1
Source: See Table 6.2.

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compensation of employees Includes wages,

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salaries, and various supplements—employer

contributions to social insurance and pension
funds, for example—paid to households by firms
and by the government.

proprietors’ income The income of

unincorporated businesses.

rental income The income received by property

owners in the form of rent.

corporate profits The income of corporations.

net interest The interest paid by business.

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indirect taxes minus subsidies Taxes such as

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sales taxes, customs duties, and license fees less

subsidies that the government pays for which it
receives no goods or services in return.

net business transfer payments Net transfer

payments by businesses to others.

surplus of government enterprises Income of

government enterprises.

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TABLE 6.4 GDP, GNP, NNP and National Income, 2007

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Dollars
(Billions)
GDP 13,841.3
Plus: Receipts of factor income from the rest of the world + 817.5
Less: Payments of factor income to the rest of the world - 721.8
Equals: GNP 13,937.1
Less: Depreciation - 1,686.6
Equals: Net national product (NNP) 12,250.5
Less: Statistical discrepancy - 29.4
Equals: National income 12,221.1
Source: See Table 6.2.

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net national product (NNP) Gross national

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product minus depreciation; a nation’s total

product minus what is required to maintain the
value of its capital stock.

statistical discrepancy Data measurement error.

personal income The total income of

households.

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TABLE 6.5 National Income, Personal Income, Disposable Personal Income, and
Personal Saving, 2007

Dollars
(Billions)
National income 12,221.1
Less: Amount of national income not going to households - 561.6
Equals: Personal income 11,659.5
Less: Personal income taxes - 1,482.5
Equals: Disposable personal income 10,177.0
Less: Personal consumption expenditures - 9,734.2
Personal interest payments -262.8
Transfer payments made by households -137.1
Equals: Personal saving 42.9
Personal saving as a percentage of disposable personal income: 0.4%
Source: See Table 6.2.

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GDP: One of the Great

Inventions of the 20th
Century
While the GDP and the rest of the
national income accounts may seem
to be arcane concepts, they are truly
among the great inventions of the
twentieth century.
Paul A. Samuelson and
William D. Nordhaus

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disposable personal income or after-tax

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income Personal income minus personal income

taxes. The amount that households have to spend
or save.

personal saving The amount of disposable

income that is left after total personal spending in
a given period.

personal saving rate The percentage of

disposable personal income that is saved. If the
personal saving rate is low, households are
spending a large amount relative to their incomes;
if it is high, households are spending cautiously.

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 Nominal versus Real GDP

current dollars The current prices that we pay for

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goods and services.

nominal GDP Gross domestic product measured

in current dollars.

weight The importance attached to an item within

a group of items.

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Calculating Real GDP
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TABLE 6.6 A Three-Good Economy

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8)
GDP in GDP in GDP in GDP in
Year 1 Year 2 Year 1 Year 2
in in in in
Production Price Per Unit Year 1 Year 1 Year 2 Year 2
Year 1 Year 2 Year 1 Year 2 Prices Prices Prices Prices
Q1 Q2 P1 P2 P1 x Q1 P1 x Q2 P2 x Q1 P2 X Q2
Good A 6 11 $0.50 $0.40 $3.00 $5.50 $2.40 $4.40
Good B 7 4 0.30 1.00 2.10 1.20 7.00 4.00
Good C 10 12 0.70 0.90 7.00 8.40 9.00 10.80
Total $12.10 $15.10 $18.40 $19.20
Nominal GDP Nominal
in year 1 GDP
in year 2

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Calculating Real GDP

base year The year chosen for the weights in a

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fixed-weight procedure.

fixed-weight procedure A procedure that uses

weights from a given base year.

weight The importance attached to an item within

a group of items.

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 Nominal versus Real GDP
Calculating the GDP Deflator

The GDP deflator is one measure of the overall

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price level. The GDP deflator is computed by the

Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA).

Overall price increases can be sensitive to the

choice of the base year. For this reason, using
fixed-price weights to compute real GDP has some
problems.

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 Nominal versus Real GDP
The Problems of Fixed Weights

The use of fixed-price weights to estimate real

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GDP leads to problems because it ignores:

• Structural changes in the economy.

• Supply shifts, which cause large decreases in

price and large increases in quantity supplied.

• The substitution effect of price increases.

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 Limitations of the GDP Concept
GDP and Social Welfare

Society is better off when crime decreases;

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however, a decrease in crime is not reflected in

GDP.

An increase in leisure is an increase in social

welfare, but not counted in GDP.

Most nonmarket and domestic activities, such as

housework and child care, are not counted in GDP
even though they amount to real production.

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 Limitations of the GDP Concept
Gross National Income per Capita

gross national income (GNI) GNP converted

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into dollars using an average of currency

exchange rates over several years adjusted for
rates of inflation.

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 Limitations of the GDP Concept
The Underground Economy

underground economy The part of the economy

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in which transactions take place and in which

income is generated that is unreported and
therefore not counted in GDP.

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 Limitations of the GDP Concept
The Underground Economy
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 FIGURE 6.1 Per Capita Gross National Income for Selected Countries, 2006

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 REVIEW TERMS AND CONCEPTS

base year net interest

change in business inventories net investment
compensation of employees net national product (NNP)
corporate profits nominal GDP
current dollars nondurable goods
depreciation nonresidential investment
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disposable personal income, or after-tax personal consumption expenditures (C)

income personal income
durable goods personal saving
expenditure approach personal saving rate
final goods and services proprietors’ income
fixed-weight procedure rental income
government consumption and gross residential investment
investment (G) services
gross domestic product (GDP) statistical discrepancy
gross investment surplus of government enterprises
gross national income (GNI) underground economy
gross national product (GNP) value added
gross private domestic investment (I) weight
income approach Expenditure approach to GDP: GDP =
indirect taxes minus subsidies C + I + G + (EX - IM)
intermediate goods GDP = Final sales - Change in
national income business inventories
national income and product accounts Net investment = Capital end of period
net business transfer payments - Capital beginning of period
net exports (EX - IM)

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