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| trade deficit | Negative net exports. |
| exports | Sales of a countryÕs goods and services to buyers in the rest of the world during a particular time period. |
| gross national product (GNP) | The total value of final goods and services produced during a particular period with factors of production owned by the residents of a particular country. |
| stock variable | A variable that is independent of time. |
| imports | Purchases of foreign-produced goods and services by a countryÕs residents during a period. |
| transfer payments | Payments that do not require the recipient to produce a good or service in order to receive them. |
| trade surplus | Positive net exports. |
| government purchases | The sum of purchases of goods and services from firms by government agencies plus the total value of output produced by government agencies themselves during a time period. |
| personal consumption | A flow variable that measures the value of goods and services purchased by households during a time period. |
| net exports | Exports minus imports. |
| disposable personal income | The income households have available to spend on goods and services. |
| gross domestic income (GDI) | The total income generated in an economy by the production of final goods and services during a particular period. |
| Indirect taxes | Taxes imposed on the production or sale of goods and services or on other business activity. |
| direct tax | Taxes imposed directly on income. |
| per capita real GNP or GDP | A countryÕs real GNP or GDP divided by its population. |
| cyclical unemployment | Unemployment in excess of the unemployment that exists at the natural level of employment. |
| nominal GDP | The total value of final goods and services for a particular period valued in terms of prices for that period. |
| unemployment rate | The percentage of the labor force that is unemployed. |
| recession | A sustained period in which real GDP is falling. |
| real GDP | The total value of all final goods and services produced during a particular year or period, adjusted to eliminate the effects of changes in prices. |
| deflation | A decrease in the average level of prices. |
| structural unemployment | Unemployment that results from a mismatch between worker qualifications and the characteristics employers require. |
| expansion | A sustained period in which real GDP is rising. |
| nominal value | A value expressed in dollars of the current period. |
| peak | The point of the business cycle at which an expansion ends and a recession begins. |
| base period | A time period against which costs of the market basket in other periods will be compared in computing a price index. |
| natural rate of unemployment | The rate of unemployment consistent with the natural level of employment. |
| frictional unemployment | Unemployment that occurs because it takes time for employers and workers to find each other. |
| business cycle | The economyÕs pattern of expansion, then contraction, then expansion again. |
| consumer price index (CPI) | A price index whose movement reflects changes in the prices of goods and services typically purchased by consumers. |
| trough | The point of the business cycle at which a recession ends and an expansion begins. |
