They look at market trends to decide on which inventory a store will offer customers. An actuary uses macroeconomic factors to help draft insurance policies. Actuaries determine the risks involved for insurance providers when they carry a policy.
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Find salaries. Upload your resume. Sign in. Career Development. What are macroeconomic factors? Types of macroeconomic factors. Interest rates. Fiscal policy. Gross domestic product GDP. National income. Economic growth rate. Industrial production. International trade. Retail sales. Business cycle. Impact of positive, negative and neutral macroeconomic factors. Positive factors. Neutral factors.
Negative factors. Geopolitical and environmental variables. Geopolitical factors. Environmental factors. Macroeconomic factors in the workplace. Financial analyst. Financial adviser. Research on inflation in the face of persistent large output gaps PLOGs shows that these gaps exert great downward pressure on price growth see, for example, Meier Figure C illustrates the point that very large PLOGs are associated with great downward price pressure.
Note : s episode runs from to , s episode from to , and s episode began in and is currently ongoing. PLOG episodes identified by Maier Further, Figure D demonstrates that firms currently have very large profit margins—the highest pre- and post-tax margins in 45 and 42 years, respectively. These give firms a large buffer against cost increases pushing up prices on the role of profit margins as buffers against future price increases, see Rich and Rissmiller In addition, unit labor costs in nominal terms remain lower at the end of than they were at the beginning of the Great Recession.
All in all, slack in labor and product markets means that there is severe disinflationary pressure on firms that would make it less likely that anything as small as the compliance costs associated with proposed EPA regulations could register as overall price increases. There seems little reason to believe that profit margins cannot perform such a cost-absorbing function in coming years, given that they are starting at such high levels.
Source : Author's analysis of data from Table 1. What if, even in the face of this disinflationary pressure, the overall price level did rise due to these regulatory changes?
As noted above, during normal economic times a rise in the price level due to regulatory changes such as these will generally trigger a countervailing response from the Federal Reserve. An increase in interest rates to push down upward pressure on prices will lead to a reduction in aggregate demand. However, because of the PLOG, the Federal Reserve is unlikely to raise rates in response, so this channel through which price increases stemming from the regulatory change lead to lower aggregate demand seems unlikely as well.
Finally, so long as it did not spur a contractionary response from the Federal Reserve, a rise in the overall price level in the current economic environment is likely to boost, not lower, job creation in the near term. A longstanding macroeconomic argument maintains that during normal economic times a higher price level will reduce the real purchasing power of fixed nominal wealth and hence reduce aggregate demand. However, another longstanding argument maintains that a higher price level also decreases the real burden of debt, not just wealth, and if the propensity to consume out of current debt is higher than the propensity to consume out of current wealth, then a higher price level, by effectively redistributing purchasing power from lenders to debtors, can actually raise aggregate demand.
Given this latter point, Eggerston and Krugman argue that anything that reduces aggregate supply like the negative shock to measured productivity that would follow from costly regulatory changes like the toxics rule will actually increase aggregate demand if it leads to a rise in the overall price level.
Given these cross-cutting influences, it is worth revisiting the estimates of Bivens In terms of the macroeconomic framework presented here, that paper presented the toxics rule as a negative shock to measured productivity that pulled down aggregate supply and aggregate demand near proportionately.
Essentially, the estimates of jobs gained through the investments in PAC equipment can be thought of as the increase in labor intensity spurred by the reduction in measured productivity i. And the estimates of jobs lost due to reduced household demand spurred by higher energy costs can be thought of as the reduction in aggregate demand caused by the productivity shock.
Because the full values of the price increases were used in that study, they best correspond to the situation where the negative shock to measured productivity is perceived as permanent. While the new capital installed to clean emissions will require maintenance and ongoing investment to keep depreciation at bay, it seems clear from the RIA data that a substantial part of the shock to measured productivity will be relatively short term, as plants make capital investments upfront.
Lastly, we can use two studies Chung et al. The Chung et al. It allows for an increase in the price level to affect real interest rates—specifically, a rise in inflation actually reduces real interest rates at the zero bound. When Chung et al. In the case of the toxics rule, the expected change in the overall price level stemming from the rule is probably best estimated by multiplying the change in energy prices 1.
This calculation leads to an expected increase in the price level of 0. Using the Chung et al. This boost would provide a complete offset to the declines to aggregate demand caused by the reduced household spending following from the negative shock to measured productivity. Bivens estimated that as a result of the toxics rule roughly 91, jobs would be created by investments in pollution abatement and control technologies, and roughly 38, jobs would be lost due to the higher overall price level when energy cost increases were passed on one for one to final goods prices.
The paper also reviewed the EPA estimates that 9, jobs would be created within the utility sector itself due to the rule and found this a convincing if conservative estimate. Before multiplier effects, these two estimates together yielded 62, jobs created by the rule.
Since then, the EPA has released the final toxics rule and supporting technical documentation. The new RIA estimates that the number of jobs created within the utility sector would rise by 8, rather than the 9, specified in the proposed rule, for a net of 56, jobs total. Applying the 0. If this paper is correct, however, then the job declines stemming from the price effects are too high. If one cuts the jobs lost to higher prices estimated in the earlier paper by this two-thirds, then the central estimate for pre-multiplier jobs rises to 78, Further, if the macroeconomic benefits of upward price pressure fight the decline in permanent income to a draw, as this paper suggests may be the case, then no loss of jobs will occur due to rising prices in the next 3—4 years.
This outcome would raise the central pre-multiplier job estimate to just under 90, jobs gained. Even with multiplier effects, these estimates translate into job gains of roughly , to , in , depending on whether one or both offsets to the job-depressing effects of price increases are used. To be clear, this remains a very modest job boost—the economy needs roughly this number of jobs to be created each month simply to keep the unemployment rate stable.
In short, even with this re-assessment of Bivens , the toxics rule is not a jobs program. It is a sensible regulatory change that will see benefits that far outweigh costs. But what this reassessment does make clear is that it is near-inconceivable that adoption of the rule will cost any jobs at all in the near term. The effect will be unambiguously positive.
Note that this device—modeling exogenous increases in energy prices as a shock to aggregate supply—is also used by Eggerston in his exposition of how the economy behaves differently at the zero interest-rate bound than during other times.
He specifically talks about an oil-price shock as an exogenous change in input prices that shifts the aggregate supply curve. The real world is also decidedly complicated and includes matters of social preference and conscience that do not lend themselves to mathematical analysis. Even with the limits of economic theory, it is important and worthwhile to follow the major macroeconomic indicators like GDP, inflation, and unemployment.
The performance of companies, and by extension their stocks, is significantly influenced by the economic conditions in which the companies operate and the study of macroeconomic statistics can help an investor make better decisions and spot turning points.
Likewise, it can be invaluable to understand which theories are in favor and influencing a particular government administration. The underlying economic principles of a government will say much about how that government will approach taxation, regulation, government spending, and similar policies. By better understanding economics and the ramifications of economic decisions, investors can get at least a glimpse of the probable future and act accordingly with confidence.
Macroeconomics is a rather broad field, but two specific areas of research are representative of this discipline. The first area is the factors that determine long-term economic growth , or increases in the national income. The other involves the causes and consequences of short-term fluctuations in national income and employment, also known as the business cycle.
Economic growth refers to an increase in aggregate production in an economy. Macroeconomists try to understand the factors that either promote or retard economic growth in order to support economic policies that will support development, progress, and rising living standards.
Adam Smith's classic 18th-century work, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, which advocated free trade, laissez-faire economic policy, and expanding the division of labor , was arguably the first, and certainly one of the seminal works in this body of research. By the 20th century, macroeconomists began to study growth with more formal mathematical models. Growth is commonly modeled as a function of physical capital, human capital, labor force, and technology.
Superimposed over long term macroeconomic growth trends, the levels and rates-of-change of major macroeconomic variables such as employment and national output go through occasional fluctuations up or down, expansions and recessions, in a phenomenon known as the business cycle. The financial crisis is a clear recent example, and the Great Depression of the s was actually the impetus for the development of most modern macroeconomic theory.
While the term "macroeconomics" is not all that old going back to the s , many of the core concepts in macroeconomics have been the focus of study for much longer.
Topics like unemployment, prices, growth, and trade have concerned economists almost from the very beginning of the discipline, though their study has become much more focused and specialized through the 20th and 21st centuries. Elements of earlier work from the likes of Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill clearly addressed issues that would now be recognized as the domain of macroeconomics.
Macroeconomics, as it is in its modern form, is often defined as starting with John Maynard Keynes and the publication of his book The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money in Keynes offered an explanation for the fallout from the Great Depression , when goods remained unsold and workers unemployed.
Keynes's theory attempted to explain why markets may not clear. Prior to the popularization of Keynes' theories, economists did not generally differentiate between micro- and macroeconomics. The same microeconomic laws of supply and demand that operate in individual goods markets were understood to interact between individuals markets to bring the economy into a general equilibrium , as described by Leon Walras.
The link between goods markets and large-scale financial variables such as price levels and interest rates was explained through the unique role that money plays in the economy as a medium of exchange by economists such as Knut Wicksell, Irving Fisher, and Ludwig von Mises.
Throughout the 20th century, Keynesian economics, as Keynes' theories became known, diverged into several other schools of thought. The field of macroeconomics is organized into many different schools of thought, with differing views on how the markets and their participants operate. Classical economists held that prices, wages, and rates are flexible and markets tend to clear unless prevented from doing so by government policy, building on Adam Smith's original theories.
Keynesian economics was largely founded on the basis of the works of John Maynard Keynes, and was the beginning of macroeconomics as a separate area of study from microeconomics. Keynesians focus on aggregate demand as the principal factor in issues like unemployment and the business cycle. Keynesian economists believe that the business cycle can be managed by active government intervention through fiscal policy spending more in recessions to stimulate demand and monetary policy stimulating demand with lower rates.
Keynesian economists also believe that there are certain rigidities in the system, particularly sticky prices that prevent the proper clearing of supply and demand.
The Monetarist school is a branch of Keynesian economics largely credited to the works of Milton Friedman. Working within and extending Keynesian models, Monetarists argue that monetary policy is generally a more effective and more desirable policy tool to manage aggregate demand than fiscal policy.
Monetarists also acknowledge limits to monetary policy that make fine tuning the economy ill advised and instead tend to prefer adherence to policy rules that promote stable rates of inflation.
The New Classical school, along with the New Keynesians, is built largely on the goal of integrating microeconomic foundations into macroeconomics in order to resolve the glaring theoretical contradictions between the two subjects. The New Classical school emphasizes the importance of microeconomics and models based on that behavior. New Classical economists assume that all agents try to maximize their utility and have rational expectations , which they incorporate into macroeconomic models.
New Classical economists believe that unemployment is largely voluntary and that discretionary fiscal policy is destabilizing, while inflation can be controlled with monetary policy. The New Keynesian school also attempts to add microeconomic foundations to traditional Keynesian economic theories. While New Keynesians do accept that households and firms operate on the basis of rational expectations, they still maintain that there are a variety of market failures, including sticky prices and wages.
Because of this "stickiness", the government can improve macroeconomic conditions through fiscal and monetary policy. The Austrian Schoo l is an older school of economics that is seeing some resurgence in popularity.
Austrian economic theories mostly apply to microeconomic phenomena, but because they, like the so-called classical economists never strictly separated micro- and macroeconomics, Austrian theories also have important implications for what are otherwise considered macroeconomic subjects.
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