Showing posts with label ECO. Show all posts
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Wednesday, 18 March 2009

ECO 18th Balance of payment

Balance of payment:a record of money flows coming in and going out of a country.



WHAT IN BALANCE OF PAYMENT?



1.trade in goods



2.trade in services



3.net flow investment income



4.transfer of money







Trade deficit:money going out is more that money coming in



Tuesday, 17 March 2009

Eco 17th Macroeconomic and TAX

Macroeconomic equilibrium:




TAXes:

The money which government use to improve health,education,and sort of problems is tax

Category of Tax:

direct TAX:tax which get from the percentage of people`s income and company and cannot avoid.

As we know, people and salary monthly,but they must pay income tax at the same time.This is one way where government get the money from in order to something else to improve specific section.In China the start point is 1600 yuan(160pound),but as your income increase your income TAX will increase as well....income TAX is the one of the main TAX government used to get money from,it plays a important role in government.

Also,company should pay direct TAX as well,it is the percentage of your company profit.Big company pay thousands and thousands TAX to the government.

indirect TAX:a tax levied on the goods and services

another essential TAX is indirect TAX,which we can see it everywhere.Whenever we go shopping and buy something we may noticed that there is VAT(value added tax)a part of the indirect TAX in the end of receipt,in UK is has reduced to 15%.In some luxury goods,such as cars,clothes...etc..government will higher the TAX for controlling.As for cigarette,UK government has higher the TAX,the tax is even more that cost.Furthermore according to the elasticity if higher the TAX on cigarette ,consumer will pay more(inclasticity) the reason why government do that is because it cause negative externality(which affect third parties)it is harmful for our normal life

But it`s not easy to control people not to smoke by using TAX on cigarette,because it`s inelasic even the TAX is high and price is increase,people are likely to buy it as normal.







Eco 17th

1.I put comment on first-time`s blog(It`s about house price)



2.David`s economics(the bank of England on deflation)






Deflation:a sustained fall in the general price level



Bad deflation:fall in aggregate demand may result in a harmful consequence.Lower aggregate demand will cause business firms to cut back production.It may cause unemployment ...Also might influence a country`s economy growth...



Good deflation:a fall in price level arising from cut costs of production to stimulate cosumers expending,supply will shift to the right,therefore more and more producers may have satisfying profit from deflation.Moreover productivity likely to rise as well....so we know that the output is growing.Country`s international competitiveness increase gradually.



3.Economics teacher`s blog:








Monday, 16 March 2009

ECO 16th

PPC(production possibility curve:show the maximum quantities of different combinations of output of two products
Opportunity cost:the next best alternative foregone
Elasticity:the extend to buyers and sellers respond to a market conditions
Unemployment:people are out of work but willing and able to work
Inflation:a sustained rise in the price level
Economic growth:an increase in real GDP,in the maximum output that the economy can produce
Exchange rate:the price of one currency in terms of another currency
fiscal policy:the taxation and government spending decisions of a government
monetary policy:decision on the interest rate the money sullpu and exchange rate
supply-side policy:policy to increase aggregate supply



AD:the total goods and service in period of time



AS :the total amount that producers in an economy willing and able to supply

Sunday, 8 March 2009

ECO unit 1 review:YED

DEFINATION:the responsiveness of the demand for a product when a chenge in income



Formula:YED:%change in demand/%change in income

normal goods:have positive income elasticity



  1. normal luxury:income elasticity is grerter than 1 YED>1

  2. normal necessity:income elasticity is less than 1 YED<1

Inferior goods:have negative income elasticity



ECO review:tax ......demand

From the chart we can obviously see that when the demand for a product is elastic,and we draw the supply curve with tax.The supply price is higher(p1-p2),producers pay more,and quantity for this product is lower than before(q1-q2)


In this case,when the demand for the product is inelastic,supply price is higher with tax (p1-p2).Consumers pay more,and the quantity for this product is decreased,but not as same as when the demand is elastic.

Saturday, 7 March 2009

ECO unit1 review:PED

Defination:the responsiveness of the demand for a product following the changing of the price.

PED=0(perfect inelastic)
It tells us whenever the price increase or decrease,the demand for this product doesn`t change.


PED=1 (perfect elastic)(unit elastic)

whenever the demand for a product change,the price of the product doesn`t change

PED:0-1 (inelastic)

From the chart we know if price increase(p3-p2),the retailers gain more....however,if the price fall(p2-p3),retailers lost more.



PED>1(elastic)
if the price increase(p3-p2) retailers lost more,price decrease(p2-p3) retailers gain more.

Formula:PED=%change in demand/%change in price

WHAT WILL AFFECT PED?

  1. Any substitutes?
  2. Period of time
  3. Taste
  4. Peak and off-peak demand
  5. Income
  6. Inflation
  7. Economy growth
  8. TAX

WHAT IF INCOME GOES UP?


the demand curve might shift to the right from d-d1,the price will increase from p0-p1.

Friday, 30 January 2009

Unemployment rate




This is the chart about china Unemployment rate from 2005-2008.The red line shows unemployment rate,and the green line shows the rate of the job which is absent


As we can see from 2005-2008 both of the lines are decreasing,but the key is red line above the green line.It may told us there are some people still waiting for a job.

But green line doesn`t change a lot.....(3%-2%)it`s like a straight line.Red line changes(6-3.9) and more and more close to green line(3-1.8%).
Also, we can have a look the UK`S unemployment rate from 2006-2008.
we can see that in 2007 is the lowest point about 5% and the highest point is in 2008...or after 2008,it`s alread touch 6.2% point which is a high rate of the unemployment....and the incredible news is unemployment people are nearly 3 million...amazing number....it might because of recession.....
Compared with two countries we can see,the unemployment rate in china is decreasing...to 3% let`s assume the population is 1.3billion 1.3*3%=3.9million and the population of UK is 60 million 60*6%=3.6million....it is a big difference....actually,China has more people don`t have job even the unemploymet rate is decreasing....as for UK, 3.6m is not a big number,but for UK is sufficient.....