Country Recent Q + 1 Q+ 2 Q+ 3 Q+4 Quarter Real GDP Real GDP Real GDP Real GDP Real GDP Forecast Forecast Forecast Forecast A 21 19 18 20 22 B 47 50 55 53 50 C 36 38 41 47 52 D 26 22 25 23 24

6. Expenditures and Income Approaches Consumption Expenditures Wages Taxes on Production and Imports Government Purchases Statistical Discrepancy Imports Undistributed Corporate Profits Rent Proprietor's Exports Dividends Depreciation Income Interest Gross Private Domestic Investment Corporate Income Taxes Corporate Profits Net Foreign Factor Income $69000 $76000 $16000 $58000 $11000 $47000 $14000 $42000 $15000 $34000 $22000 $24000 $31000 $41000 $18000 $54000 $17000 Complete parts a and b. a. Given the numbers above, solve for Real GDP using the expenditures approach. Given the numbers above, solve for the National Income (NI). b.

1. Key facts about economic fluctuations The graph included below approximates United States business cycles between quarter one of 1953 and quarter three of 1957. The shaded region denotes periods of six or more consecutive months of declining real gross domestic product (real GDP). REAL GDP (Billions of dollars) 2700 2600 2500 2400 2300 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 (?)

Q3: Without doing additional calculations, explain what would happen to the shape of the Lorenz curve and inequality in 2012 if households in and below the 15th percentile received cash transfers from the government.

Your friend, a loyal Apple customer, has set out a table of Apple’s net sales also adding his/her expectations about 2021 developments.Do you agree with your friend’s claim that long-term net sales changes cause translation exposure to Apple?

Sav Blundell Biotech. Blundell Biotech is a U.S.-based biotechnology company with operations and earnings in a number of foreign countries. The company's profits by subsidiary, in local currency (in millions) along with the average exchange rate for each year, by currency pairs, are shown in the table for 2013 and 2014. Use these data to answer the following questions. a. What was Blundell Biotech's consolidated profits in U.S. dollars in 2013 and 2014? b. If the same exchange rates were used for both years-which is often called a "constant currency basis-what was the change in corporate earnings on a constant currency basis? c. Using the results of the constant currency analysis in part (b), is it possible to separate Blundell's growth in earnings between local currency earnings and foreign exchange rate impacts on a consolidated basis?

quarter and years Quarter1 2015 Quarter2 Quarter3|Quarter4 Quarter1 Quarter2 Quarter3 Quarter4 Quarter1 Quarter2 Quarter3 Quarter4 2015 Unit 2015 2015 2016 2016 2016 2016 2017 2017 2017 Description $ million Data Category and Component 2017 27.748 27.938 31.873 30.435 26.157 25.806 29.337 27.748 27.938 31.873 30.435 Agriculture $ milion 32.141 29.598 28.073 31.514 33.489 33.727 32.686 32.141 29.598 28.073 31.514 Mining and Quarrying Manufacturing $ milion 70.892 74.946 76.020 77.940 73.899 77.680 79.324 70.892 74.946 76.020 77.940 $ milion 7.522 7.977 8.095 8.116 7.903 8.318 8.621 8.641 8.315 8.738 9.115 9.208 Blectricity, Gas and Water $ million 16.659 16.041 17.179 16.673 17.655 16.971 18.166 16.659 16.041 17.179 16.673 Construction Wholesale and Retal Trade, Accommodation and Restaurants $ mion 51.264 51.984 56.305 60.687 55.180 56.232 60.976 65.920 60.720 62.578 67.437 72.322 Transport, Storage and Communication $ milion 25.163 25.772 26.539 26.887 27.287 28.059 28.593 29.026…