Thursday, October 17, 2013

Post 10: Equilibrium in National-Income Analysis

The static analysis can be applied to other areas of economics, like Keynesian national-income model too. If we consider the simplest Keynesian national-income model below:

                                  
                                  

where Y = Endogenous variable National Income
           C = Endogenous variable Planned Consumption Expenditure
           = Exogenous variable Investment
          = Exogenous variable Government Expenditure
           a = Parameter variable Autonomous Consumption
           b = Parameter variable Marginal Propensity to Consume

The equations above give us the Y* and C* values as:

                                  
                                  

Both Y* and C* have the expression (1 - b) in the denominator, thus the restriction b 1 is necessary, to avoid division by zero.

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