Question

Indicate what components of GDP (if any) each of the following transactions would affect. a. Your parents buy a new house from a local builder. b. Your parents pay an accountant to file their tax returns. c. New York hires workers to plow snow after a snowstorm. d. Honda expands its factory in Ohio. e. Ford sells a Mustang from its inventory to the Martinez family. f. Aunt Polly buys a new air conditioner from a domestic manufacturer. You buy a new Toshiba computer. g. the Jackson family buys an old Victorian house from the Walker family.

Answer 1

Answer:

a. Consumption spending

b. consumption spending

c. government spending

d. investment

e. consumption and investment

f. consumption spending

g. not included in GDP

Purchase of a Toshiba laptop is consumption spending

Explanation:

Gross domestic product is the total sum of final goods and services produced in an economy within a given period which is usually a year

GDP calculated using the expenditure approach = Consumption spending by households + Investment spending by businesses + Government spending + Net export

Net export = exports – imports

When exports exceeds import there is a trade deficit and when import exceeds import, there is a trade surplus.  

Items not included in the calculation off GDP includes:  

1. services not rendered to oneself

2. Activities not reported to the government  

3. illegal activities

4. sale or purchase of used or old products

5. sale or purchase of intermediate products

Consumption spending includes expenditures by households on durable and non durable goods and services

the following are durable consumption by households and are included in the calculation of GDP :

Purchase of a house

Purchase of a mustang

Purchase of an air conditioner

purchase of a  computer

the purchase of the old Victorian house isn't included in the calculation of GDP because it is old. Only items produced in the current year are included in the GDP. if the old home is counted, it would be double counting

hiring an accountant is an example of purchase of services by households and it is consumption spending.

Spending by businesses are included in investment spending.

expenditure by the government or state are included in government spending