Question

GDP: Is It Counted and Where? For each of the following items, write one of the following in the space provided: C if the item is counted as consumption spending, T if the item is counted as investment spending, G if the item is counted as government spending, NX if the item is counted as net exports, and NC if the item is not counted in GDP. 1. You spend $7.00 to attend a movie. __ 2. A family pays a contractor $100,000 for a house he built for them this year. __ 3. A family pays $75,000 for a house built three years ago. __ 4. An accountant pays a tailor $175 to sew a suit for her. __ 5. The government increases its defense expenditures by $1,000,000,000. __ 6. The government makes a $300 Social Security payment to a retired person. __ 7. You buy General Motors Corp. stock for $1,000 in the stock market. __ 8. At the end of a year, a flour-milling firm finds that its inventories of grain and flour are $10,000 above the amounts of its inventories at the beginning of the year. __ 9. A homemaker works hard caring for her spouse and two children. __ 10. Ford Motor Co. buys new auto-making robots. __ 11. You pay $300 a month to rent an apartment. __ 12. Apple Computer Co. builds a new factory in the United States. __ 13. R.J. Reynolds Co. buys control of Nabisco. __ 14. You buy a new Toyota that was made in Japan. __ 15. You pay tuition to attend college. __ We count only the final retail price of a new good or service in GDP. Why? A purely financial transaction will not be counted in GDP. Why? When a homeowner does home-improvement work, the value of the labor is not counted in GDP. Why?

Answer 1

Answer:

Check the following solutions.

Explanation:

(1) C

Money spent for movie ticket is personal consumption.

(2) I

Purchase of new residential house is included in GDP under fixed residential investment.

(3) NC

Purchase of used good is not counted (to avoid double counting).

(4) C

Money spent for suit is personal consumption.

(5) G

Defense spending is included in government purchase of goods and services.

(6) NC

Social security, being a transfer payment, is excluded from GDP.

(7) NC

Purchase of stocks is excluded from GDP.

(8) I

Unintended inventory is included under Gross private domestic investment.

(9) NC

Unpaid services are excluded from GDP since market value cannot be precisely computed.

(10) I

The robots are physical capital for Ford's business.

(11) C

Rental payment is personal consumption.

(12) I

Building new factory is fixed non-residential business investment.

(13) NC

Transfer of corporate ownership is excluded from GDP.

(14) NX

Purchase of Japanese car is an Import, included under NX.

(15) C

Tuition payment is personal consumption.