Understanding GNP, GDP, and Key Economic Indicators

GNP (Gross National Product): The value of all goods and services produced by a country’s factors of production and sold in the market in any given period. GNP only accounts for final goods to avoid double accounting. GNP must equal national income. GNP measures the production of national factors of production within the country or abroad.
Adjust GNP in two ways:
  • Include depreciation: Machinery wears out and loses value over time. GNP – depreciation = Net National Product (NNP)
  • Include unilateral
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Understanding HDI, Poverty, Inflation, and Economic Policies in India

Understanding Key Economic Concepts and Policies in India

The Human Development Index (HDI)

The Human Development Index (HDI) is a composite index that measures a country’s average achievement in three areas of human development: access to knowledge, a decent standard of living, and a long and healthy life. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) introduced the HDI in 1990 to provide a more comprehensive measure of human development than traditional economic indicators.

The HDI value ranges

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Understanding Externalities: Pollution and Positive Impact

Externalities

An externality exists when the production or consumption of a good directly affects consumers or businesses not involved in the buying or selling of that good, and when those effects are not reflected in market prices.

When introducing the concept of externality, it’s useful to distinguish between social and private valuations. Social valuations include the social and private benefits or costs that the market has not taken into account due to the externality.

Negative Externalities:

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General Equilibrium and Economic Efficiency

Item 16: General Equilibrium and Economic Efficiency

General Equilibrium Analysis: Unlike partial equilibrium analysis, general equilibrium analysis determines prices and quantities simultaneously in all markets. It explicitly considers feedback effects. A feedback effect is a price or quantity adjustment in one market caused by price and quantity adjustments in related markets.

Efficiency in Exchange: In an exchange economy, two or more consumers trade two or more goods. An initial allocation of

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Economic Systems: Market vs. Central Planning

Economic Systems and Basic Needs

An economic system is the way individuals in a society are organized to solve their basic economic problems. Every economic system must answer three basic economic questions: what to produce, how to produce, and for whom to produce.

What to Produce

This involves determining which goods and services will be produced and in what quantity. Are we going to produce many goods? Is it better to produce a large quantity of lower quality, or a smaller quantity of higher quality?

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Spanish Financial System: Accounts, Trends, and Analysis

Net Interest Income (1994-2000)

  • General reduction in interest rates.
  • Increase in banking competition (price wars: on the liabilities side since 1989 and on the assets side since 1991).
  • Financial disintermediation process.

Bigger impact of both factors on the return on assets than on liabilities. Continuous narrowing of the differential between return on assets and cost of liabilities.

Net Interest Income (2000-2007)

Interest rates decreased between 2001 and 2005. Interest rates increased between 2005

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