by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Economic Analysis & Monetary Policy
What are the Tools for Macroeconomic Policy?National governments have two tools for influencing the macroeconomy. The first is monetary policy, which involves managing the money supply and interest rates. The second is fiscal policy, which involves changes in...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Economic Analysis & Monetary Policy
What is the Problem of Double Counting GDP?We define GDP as the current value of all final goods and services produced in a nation in a year. Final goods are goods at the furthest stage of production at the end of a year. Statisticians who calculate GDP must avoid the...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Economic Analysis & Monetary Policy
What are some Government Approaches to Encouraging Innovation?The primary government approaches to encouraging innovation include: Intellectual property – Granting intellectual property rights, a firm is able to earn monopoly profits on its product for a period...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Economic Analysis & Monetary Policy
What is the Free Rider Problem for Public Goods?Private companies find it difficult to produce public goods. If a good or service is nonexcludable, like national defense, so that it is impossible or very costly to exclude people from using this good or service, then...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Economic Analysis & Monetary Policy
What is the Role of Government in Paying for Public Goods?The key insight in paying for public goods is to find a way of assuring that everyone will make a contribution and to prevent free riders. For example, if people come together through the political process and...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Economic Analysis & Monetary Policy
What is the Tragedy of Commons for Common Resources?There are some goods that do not fall neatly into the categories of private good or public good. While it is easy to classify a pizza as a private good and a city park as a public good, what about an item that is...
