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AP Macroecon Chapter 9&10 Vocabulary

McConnell Brue book 16th edition (all terms are from glossary)

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22992474145 Degree Linea reference line where each point on the line is when consumption equals disposable income
229924742Consumption Schedulea schedule showing the amounts households plan to spend for consumer goods at different levels of disposable income.
229924743Saving Schedulea schedule that shows the amounts households plan to save (plan not to spend for consumer goods), at different levels of disposable income.
229924744Break-Even Incomethe level of disposable income at which households plan to consume (spend) all their income and to save none of it; also, in an income transfer program, the level of earned income at which subsidy payments become zero.
229924745Average Propensity to Consume (APC)fraction (or percentage) of disposable income that households plan to spend for consumer goods and service; consumption divided by disposable income.
229924746Average Propensity to Save (APS)fraction (or percentage) of disposable income that households save; saving divided by disposable income.
229924747Marginal Propensity to Consume (MPC)The fraction of any change in disposable income spend for consumer goods; equal to the change in consumption divided by the change in disposable income.
229924748Marginal Propensity to Save (MPS)the fraction of any change in disposable income that households save; equal to the change in saving divided by the change in disposable income.
229924749Wealth Effectthe tendency for people to increase their consumption spending when the value of their financial and real assets rises and to decrease their consumption spending when the value of those assets fall.
229924750Expected Rate of Returnthe increase in profit a firm anticipates it will obtain by purchasing capital (or engaging in research and development); expressed as a percentage of the total cost of the investment (or R&D) activity.
229924751Investment Demand Curvea curve or schedule that shows the amounts firms plan to invest at various possible values of real gross domestic product.
229924752Multiplierthe ratio of a change in the equilibrium GDP to the change in investment or in any other component of aggregate expenditures or aggregate demand; the number by which a change in any component of aggregate expenditures or aggregate demand must be multiplied to find the resulting change in the equilibrium GDP.
229924753Planned Investmentthe amount that firms plan or intend to invest.
229924754Investment Schedulea curve or schedule that shows the amounts firms plan to invest at various possible values of real gross domestic product.
229924755Aggregate Expenditures Schedulea schedule or curve showing the total amount spent for final goods and services at different levels of real GDP
229924756Equilibrium GDPthe level at which the total quantity of goods produced (GDP) equals the total quantity of goods purchased (C + Ig).
229924757Leakage(1) a withdrawal of potential spending from the income-expenditures stream via saving, tax payments, or imports; (2) a withdrawal that reduces the lending of the banking system.
229924758Injectionan addition of spending to the income-expenditure stream; investment, government purchases, and net exports.
229924759Unplanned Changes in Inventorieschanges in inventories that firms did not anticipate; changes in inventories that occur because of unexpected increases or decreases of aggregate spending (of aggregate expenditures)
229924760Net Exportsexports minus imports
229924761Lump-sum Taxa tax that is a constant amount (the tax revenue of government is the same) at all levels of GDP.
229924762Recessionary Gapthe amount by which the aggregate expenditures schedule must shift upward to increase the real GDP to its full-employment, non-inflationary level.
229924763Inflationary Gapthe amount by which the aggregate expenditures schedule must shift downward to decrease the nominal GDP to its full-employment non-inflationary level.
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