There Are a Number of Measures of Aggregate Economic Activity

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Essay

There are a number of measures of aggregate economic activity, such as GDP, GNP, national income, personal income, and disposable personal income. Each of these measures can be a good indicator depending on the issue under consideration. For each of the following issues, give your reasons for selecting one of the measures just mentioned as the best indicator to use in studying the issue: a. the proportion of income households save;
b. the relative share of earnings going to labor versus capital;
c. the total output of final goods and services.

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Definitions:

Resamples

In statistics, creating new samples from an observed dataset, often to perform bootstrap or permutation tests.

BCa Confidence Intervals

A type of confidence interval used in statistics that adjusts for both bias and skewness in bootstrapping, providing a more accurate interval estimate.

Statistic

A numerical value that summarizes or describes a characteristic of a sample of data.

Permutation Test

A nonparametric method to determine statistical significance by computing all possible arrangements of observed data.