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The 4 Sectors of the Economy- Household and Business Sectors
Topic 4 (Part 1)
Four Sectors of the Economy
Net Export Expenditure
Financial
Markets
Resource
Market
Income
Consumption Expenditure
Investment Expenditure
Production
Govt. Expenditure
Firm
Government
Product
Market
External
Household
Borrowing & Lending
Private and Public
Value of Production = Value of Resources = Value of Income Generated = Expenditure Undertaken
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Review
AD1
AD2
Y1
Y2
Y
P
YN
AS
P0
Recall the Keynesian AD/AS framework
AD determines the level of economic activity
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Production, Income, Aggregate Expenditure
RGDP = Y = AE = C + I + G + NX
Components of GDP
Consumption: Spending by households on goods and services, not including spending on new houses.
Investment: Spending by firms on new factories, office buildings, machinery (planned), and inventories (unplanned), and spending by households on new houses.
Government purchases: Spending by federal, state, and local governments on goods and services.
Net exports: The value of exports minus the value of imports.
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Expenditure as a Percentage of GDP
(June 2017)
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Consumption and Saving
Both consumption and savings levels are determined by household disposable income.
Consumption is the portion of their disposable income that households spend on goods and services.
Disposable income that is not consumed is called Savings
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Keynes General Theory
What affects Consumption?
Disposable Income
Y = C + S + T
Y - T = C + S
since Y - T = disposable income (YD)
YD = C + S
As YD↑; C ↑ and S ↑
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Keynes General Theory
Non-current Income Determinants
Wealth - total net value of household assets (minus any debt), incl. market value of housing, cars, and financial assets
Price Level
Level of Consumer Debt
Expectations
Availability and Cost of Credit - Interest Rates (r): When r↓ → cost of borrowing falls → C↑
Demographics
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Consumption
The consumption function is the relationship that describes the determinants of consumption spending.
= Autonomous consumption – captures the effect of the non-income factors
= marginal propensity to consume (MPC): 0 < MPC < 1 extra consumption associated with an extra dollar of disposable income:
= induced consumption
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Consumption Function/Schedule
C
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Shifts vs Movements vs Pivots
A change in current Y causes a movement along a given function.
A change in one of the non-income factors affecting consumption changes (the vertical intercept), and therefore shifts the functions vertically.
An increase in the MPC will increase the slope of the function, and hence causes it to pivot upwards.
45o Degree Line
C
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Check Your Knowledge
What effect will the following have on the consumption function:
the economy begins to recover from recession
people anticipate that the rate of inflation is about to rise
C
$40 savings
$40 dissaving
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Savings Function
We know Therefore:
MPS: extra saving associated with an extra dollar of disposable income =
MPC + MPS = 1
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Check Your Knowledge
The consumption function for a particular economy is C=120+0.6Y
What is the slope of the consumption function?
What is the value of the MPC?
What is the value of the MPS?
Relationship Between Income, Consumption and Savings
Savings to Income (S/YD) Ratio increases with YD.
If income is less than YD0, savings is negative;
If income is more than YD0, savings is positive
According to Keynes, as income rises, a larger share of YD is saved.
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Check Your Knowledge
S = –20 + 0.2YD
What is the marginal propensity to consume?
If income after tax is $200, what is the value to total savings; what is the value of total consumption?
Alternate Theories of Consumer Behaviour
According to Keynes, the current level of income is the determines consumption.
The modern theory of consumption was developed independently in the 1950s by Milton Friedman (Permanent Income Hypothesis) and by Franco Modigliani (Live-Cycle Hypothesis).
These modern theories of consumption take into account that we, as consumers prefer stable patterns of consumption.
The Permanent Income Hypothesis
The Permanent Income Hypothesis (PIH) holds that consumption spending depends on the long-run average (or permanent) income that people expect to receive, not transitory ones.
Permanent Income (YP) is the annual average income that people expect to receive over a period of years in the future. Milton Friedman proposed that individuals consume a constant fraction of their expected income (YP)
People revise their estimates of permanent income based on events that occur – adaptive expectations.
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The Permanent Income Hypothesis
Consumption can also be affected by Transitory Income (Yt), but in the long-run Yt will be zero because over time, transitory gains will be offset by transitory losses.
Therefore, consumption depends on long-run average income (permanent income) that people expect to receive
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The Life-Cycle Hypothesis
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The Live-Cycle Hypothesis (LCH) implies that households base their current consumption on their expected total lifetime incomes and their wealth. People would try to stabilise their consumption over their entire lifetime.
C0 = lifetime consumption per year
L = lifespan (in years)
Y0 = income per year
R = number of years of employment
With an endowment/inheritance of assets equal to A1:
Current consumption is based on expected total lifetime income and wealth holdings
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Investment
Investment the purchase of capital goods - plant and equipment, residential structures, and changes in inventory - that can be used in the production of other goods and services.
Inventory Investment is the change in the stock of raw materials, parts and finished products held by businesses.
Any goods that are unsold automatically are counted as part of unplanned inventory investment.
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Check Your Knowledge
Which of the following commercial transactions would be considered by economists to be investment expenditure?
You purchase a house at auction.
You invest $5,000 in the share market.
Your employer buys Office 2016 for office staff.
At an auction you lose control and end up as the proud owner of Picasso’s Weeping Woman.
Your family friend, a builder, decides to update his electric drill.
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Gross vs Net Investment
Net investment = Gross investment - depreciation
Depreciation is an allowance for the capital goods that have been used up in the process of producing this year’s GDP.
Gross investment is the amount spent on replacing the depreciated capital and on net additions to the capital stock.
Net private investment is the net addition to the economy’s capital stock.
The economy’s ability to produce goods and services depends significantly on its stock of capital goods.
When gross investment exceeds depreciation, net investment is positive, and the economy is expanding.
If gross investment is less than depreciation, net investment is negative, and the economy would be contracting.
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Determinants of Investment
There are 2 main determinants of investment:
Real Interest rates: The cost of borrowing funds for the purchase of real capital.
It is the real rate of interest, rather than the nominal rate, that is crucial in making investment decisions.
The real interest rate is the nominal rate less the rate of inflation.
The expected net rate of profit that businesses hope to realise from investment spending.
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Interest Rates
For savers, interest rates are a reward/incentive for deferring spending.
For borrowers, interest rates are a cost of borrowing for spending.
Autonomous consumption and investment will be affected by interest rates.
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General Decision Rule
The business sector buys capital goods only when it expects such purchases to be profitable.
If expected rate of net profit ≥ real interest rate, it is profitable to invest. since revenue earned > interest and principle repaid.
If expected rate of net profit < real interest rate, it will not be profitable to invest. since revenue earned < interest and principal repaid.
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Investment Spending
Anything that changes the expected net rate of profit changes investment spending
Interest rates
Expectations
Acquisition, Operating and Maintenance Costs
Business Taxes
Technological Change/Innovation
Existing Capital Stock
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Investment Demand Curve
r
Investment Demand
I
Shifts of Investment Demand:
Expectations
Acquisition, operating and maintenance costs
Business Taxes
Technological change/innovation
Capital stock
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Planned Investment Expenditure
We assume that investment is independent of current income, ie autonomous.
If one or more determinants of investment change, it will cause the investment schedule to shift.
This assumption is a simplification. There are reasons why investment may vary directly with income.
I
Y
I
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Aggregate Expenditures-Output Approach
Aggregate Expenditure
Output
C
AE = C + I
Investment Expenditure
I
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Equilibrium Levels of Output and Income
Equilibrium income means the only income that the economy will be able to sustain. It does not necessarily mean full employment income.
At an equilibrium level of output, the value of the economy’s total expenditure on output (C + I) is just equal to the value of total output that the firms in the economy produce (RGDP).
In Equilibrium, Y = C + I
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Planned and Unplanned
Of all the components of AE, only investment can be either planned (Ip) or unplanned (Iu)
Business firms will adjust their production until unplanned investment is eliminated.
If unplanned investment is positive (Iu>0), output will be reduced.
If unplanned investment is negative (Iu<0), output will be increased.
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Autonomous and Induced Spending
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Aggregate Output-Expenditures Approach
E
Y
45o (where E=Y)
Ep = C + I
E
D
B
C
A
Y0
Y1
Y2
At equilibrium Y = C + I (i.e. no unplanned investment)
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Check Your Knowledge
In a simple two sector economy, what is meant by equilibrium output? How does it differ from total output?
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Equilibrium RGDP
or
Changes to Equilibrium GDP
E
Y
45° line
E1
Y1
E2
Y2
ΔI/ ΔCa
ΔY
Note: D Y > D I
Effect on AE? Shift up by amount = Δ I or Ca
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Multipliers
Changes in aggregate expenditure give rise to even larger changes in total income and output.
This reflects the “multiplier effect”.
If multiplier = 3
For every $1 increase in expenditure, income and output will increase by $3.
D in equilibrium real GDP
D in Autonomous Spending
Autonomous Expenditure Multiplier =
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Expenditure Multiplier
The expenditure multiplier (k):
= or =
Δ Y = k x Δ A
The larger is MPC, the smaller is MPS, the steeper the AE curve, then the larger will be the multiplier.
1
1-MPC
1
MPS
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Implications
Business Cycle:
Small changes in spending may be greatly magnified in resulting income and employment outcomes resulting in the fluctuations of the business cycle.
Policy:
Small increases in G could stimulate output enabling the government to push the economy out of recession more easily?
BUT
It takes time for k to work
Future-oriented theories of consumption
Are idle resources available?
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Recessionary Gap
Y
E
45° line
EN
EA
YN
YACTUAL
Recessionary Gap
Output/
GDP Gap
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Inflationary Gap
RGDP
E
45° line
EA
EN
YN
YA
Inflationary Gap
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Relation of Investment and Saving
Personal Saving (S) is that part of personal income that is not consumed or paid out in taxes
Also referred to as Private Saving
Algebraically: S = (Y-T) - C (where T = Net Taxes)
Funds from savings are channeled to firms in two basis ways:
Households buy bonds and stocks issued by firms
Households deposit savings in banks and other financial institutions that in turn lend money to firms
Firms use the money channeled from savings to buy investment goods
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Leakages-Injections Approach
Savings is a leakage from the income-expenditure stream.
Investment can be viewed as an injection of expenditure that can offset this leakage.
At equilibrium C + S = C + I, or S = I
Marginal leakage rate: fraction of income that is taxed or saved (or used for imports) rather than being spent on domestic expenditure.
Marginal leakage rate = s
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2-Sector Equation Summary
C = Cα + cY
S =– Cα + (1 – c)Y
At equilibrium, EP=C+Ip
Ye = Cα + cY + Ip
Ye = (Cα + Ip)
Marginal leakage rate: fraction of income that is taxed or saved (or used for imports) rather than being spent on domestic expenditure.
Marginal leakage rate = s
Ye =
S = I
0
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Y
L
R
C
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L
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