Due Date Wed. March 4, 2009
CE due this Friday 2/20
Essay due next Friday 2/27
ECONOMICS Name:______________________
Pair/Rattray Date:_____________Pd_______
Economic Performance Indicators (CH. 13, 14 & 16) Vocabulary Sheet
GPS Objectives: SSEMA1 The student will illustrate the means by which economic activity is measured.
a. Explain that overall levels of income, employment, & prices are determined by the spending & production decisions
of households, businesses, government, & net exports.
b. Define Gross Domestic Product (GDP), economic growth, unemployment, Consumer Price Index (CPI), inflation,
stagflation, & aggregate supply /aggregate demand.
c. Explain how economic growth, inflation, & unemployment are calculated.
d. Identify structural, cyclical, & frictional unemployment.
e. Define the stages of the business cycle, as well as recession and depression.
f. Describe the difference between the national debt and government deficits.
SSEPF3 The student will explain how changes in monetary and fiscal policy can have an impact on an individual’s
spending and saving choices. a. Give examples of who benefits and who loses from inflation
1. GNP vs. GDP
2. Real GDP
3. Nominal GDP
4. Durable vs. non-durable goods
5. Balance of trade
6. Stagflation
7. Business Cycle
8. Productivity
9. Deflation
10. Purchasing Power
11. Price Index
12. Debtors –what effect does inflation have?
13. Creditors – what effect does inflation have?
14. Demand-pull inflation-what causes this?
15. Cost-push inflation- what causes this?
16. Structural inflation- what causes this?
17. CPI (Consumer Price Index)
18. COLA (Cost of Living Adjustment)
19. BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics)
20. Frictional unemployment (including seasonal), What causes it? Give examples
21. Structural unemployment, What causes it? Give examples
22. Cyclical unemployment, What causes it? Give examples
23. Double counting
24. Aggregate stats (supply & demand)
25. inflation – who benefits – who is hurt
26. Unemployment rate
27. What determines GDP? (What is included and what is excluded?)
28. Lead indicators (ex.)
29. Lag indicators (ex.)
30. What causes changes in the business cycle?
31. Why can unemployment stats be inaccurate?
32. What has happened to the real GDP in the U.S.?
33. What are the environmental costs of economic growth?
34. What effect does inflation have on purchasing power?
35. Intermediate goods (double counting)
36. National debt vs. national deficit -
37. Identify the 4 phases of the business cycle in a diagram (below)