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iii. GNP per Capita= GNP is the act of using goods and services to satisfy
Total Population human wants
Kinds of GNP It is not the monopoly of households since
Current GNP- using current inflation businesses and the government also uses goods
Real GNP- effects of inflation are removed and services to attain some needs.
Household consumption
Personal Income
Directly satisfies human wants and one of the
Savings+ Income + Investment determinants of national factor income.
Disposable Income
Business consumption 3. Population
Determines consumption needs and,
Does indirectly inasmuch as business activities
therefore, affects consumption
provide the households with economic income
expenditures with a given income.
to meet consumption expenditures.
4. Income- the level of income can increase with
The Consumption Function
more infusions in the circular flow.
1. Consumption and Income 5. Price Level- individual product demand is
Y=Cb+ C inversely proportional to price due to the
Y= factor Income change in purchasing power and substitution
Cb= Borrowings from economy stock with other products.
savings 6. Innovation and Promotion- can expand the line
C= Change in Consumption of consumers’ choice and extend the influence
2. The Multiplier Concept of demand factors on consumption and
The process of generating income propensity to consume income.
through the circular flow exchange 7. Engel’s Law and the Compositional Change in
between the households and the firms. Consumption Expenditure- the name Ernest
Multiplier coefficient- measures the Engel in the 19th century found a relation
average number of times every peso of between the level of family income and the
inflow circulation composition of its consumption spending.
3. Consumption and Savings Theories in Consumption
Generating more income means savings
KEYNESIAN THEORY
outflows to retire more debts and
o John Maynard Keynes
reduce what the economy owes to past
o Current real income is the most
savings
important determinant of consumption
Factors of Consumption
in the short run
1. Framework CHAPTER 6
Personal consumption is household’s
Investment
realized demand to satisfy current
needs. Money committed or property acquired for
2. Taste or Preference future income
Depends on how the product satisfies To mean additions to real stock capital
one’s desires. Fixed Investment – is spending on new capital,
machinery, plat
Working Capital –is spending on stocks capital goods in the economy which can
inventories of Finished Goods and Raw diminish due to usage and depreciation.
materials Investment Demand Determinants:
Types of Investment
1. Interest Rate
Traditional Investment Investment demand is inversely
Putting money into well-known asset proportional to the interest rate level
with the expectation of capital with other factors as constant (ceteris
appreciation paribus) resulting in an investment
Alternative Investment demand curve that is downward
Hedge fund, managed futures, real sloping.
states 2. Acceleration Principle
Investment Expenditure The level of investments is a function of
desired changes in output.
Is a capital spending mainly derived not from
3. Innovations
current income and consumption but from
long- run factor which can shift the
accumulated savings and other sources external
investment demand curve.
to the circular flow.
Joseph Schumpeter describes
It also simply assumed as an exogenous
innovation as the introduction of an
component of National Income. (pre- payment
unfamiliar product and untested
of long run consumption)
technology.
Investment increases the capital stock and
4. Profit
the expenditures for which generate
The basic reason why a business invests
income as inflows to the system.
and therefore, profit trends influence
Consumption Expenditure business investments in the long- run.
ceteris paribus.
Investment is the most volatile of the major
Determinants of Savings:
components of aggregate expenditure.
1. The price level of which can affect expenditures
Multiplier the number of times money has changed
and savings.
hands and generates income.
Full employment equilibrium- is an ideal objective 2. Financial impact
because at that level of income, there is no
3. Supply impact
available and useful resource that is wasted.
1. Expenditure impact