List and Compare the Four Components of the Expenditure Approach

question 160

Essay

List and compare the four components of the expenditure approach to calculating GDP.

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Definitions:

Collude

When two or more firms work together to set prices, limit supply, or engage in other practices to restrict competition and manipulate market outcomes.

Perfect Competitors

In a perfectly competitive market, firms that have no market power and cannot set prices, with many buyers and sellers trading identical products.

Non-price Competition

A marketing strategy where a company tries to distinguish its product or service from competing products based on attributes other than price.

Herfindahl-Hirschman Index

A measure of market concentration used to determine the competitiveness of a market. It sums the squares of the market shares of all firms in the industry.