Cheat Sheet For AP Economics
Cheat Sheet For AP Economics
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AP Exam Review
Chapter 1:
Slope: rise/run
Equation of a line: y=mx+b
Chapter 2:
Factors of Production – land labor capital entrepreneurial ability
Factor income: WRIP
Most optimal point of production on PPC: MB=MC
Chapter 3:
Demand determinants: PINTE
Supply determinants: PRENTT
Shortage = QD-QS
Surplus = QS - QD
Chapter 6:
Gross Domestic Product (GDP):
o Expenditures Approach: C + Ig + Xn + G
o Income Approach: WRIPINDS
Net Domestic Product (NDP):
o GDP – Depreciation
o C + In + Xn + G
National Income (NI):
o WRIP
o NDP – (Net Foreign Factor + Indirect Bus. Tax)
Personal Income (PI):
o NI – (C+U+S+I) + T
DI:
o DI = C + S
o DI = PI – personal income taxes
Corporate Profits = Dividends + Corp Prof Tax + Und Corp Profits
Price Index = (price of mark basket in specific yr/price of same basket in base yr) x
100
Real GDP = nominal GDP / price index (in hundredths)
Xn = exports – imports
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AP Exam Review
Chapter 7:
Full Employment = frictional + structural unemployment
Full Employment unemployment rate is achieved when: cyclical unemploy. = 0
Unemployment Rate = (unemployed / labor force) x 100
GDP gap = Cyclical unemployment x 2
Rate of Inflation:
o ((This yr’s price index – Last yr’s price index) / Last yr’s price index) X 100
Rule of 70 = 70 / Rate of Inflation
% change in real income = % change in nominal income - % change in price level
% change in price level = % change in nominal income - % change in real income
Chapter 8:
DI = C + S
S = DI – C
APC = C/DI
APS = S/DI
MPC:
o Change in C / Change in DI
o Slope of C
o Slope of AE
MPS:
o Change in S / Change in DI
o Slope of S
Breakeven level of income: DI = C
Equilibrium GDP:
o Leakages = injections
o Sa + Ig + M = Ig + G + X
o GDP = AE
o AE = C + Ig + G + Xn
Chapter 9:
Multiplier:
o Change in real GDP / Initial change in spending
o 1 / MPS
o 1 / (1 – MPC)
Change in GDP = change in AE x multiplier
Sa = change in DI x MPS
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Ca = change in DI x MPC
Balanced budget multiplier = 1
Recessionary Gap or Inflationary Gap = GDP gap / multiplier
Chapter 11:
Change in AD = change in AE x multiplier
AE = C, Ig, G, Xn
Budget Deficit = G > T
Budget Surplus = T > G
Chapter 12:
Sm = M1 + M2 + M3
M1 = currency + demand deposits
M2 = M1 + savings + small time deposits + money mkt mutual funds + money mkt
dep accts
M3 = M2 + large time deposits (over 100,000)
Dm = Da + Dt
Bond Interest Rate = bond coupon / bond price
Chapter 13:
Assets = liability + net worth
Required reserves = demand deposits x reserve ratio
Excess reserves = actual reserves – required reserves
Money creating potential = excess reserves x monetary multiplier
Monetary multiplier = 1 / reserve ratio
Direct change in supply of money = when DD change and don’t change elsewhere
Chapter 15/17:
Equation of exchange: MV = PQ
Chapter 35-36:
Cost ratio
Terms of trade
Trading possibilities
Gains from trade
World supply and demand:
o Surplus = exports
o Shortage = imports