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Learning Outcome Coverage

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Start with a concept, then choose the learning outcomes you teach. Explore the available outcomes below before building your game.

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Concept Learning outcomes Question coverage

Each concept offers one or more broad instructional outcomes. Students show this performance by selecting answers, interpreting graphs, calculating values, classifying examples, or applying economic reasoning. The labels do not imply that students write explanations.

Outcomes are broader than individual question skills and may combine several related subskills. You can choose coverage without inspecting individual questions. A selected outcome makes its supporting questions available; it does not guarantee that every outcome will be sampled in a short run.

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Brief
Essential learning outcomes for the concept.
Standard
Normal/default coverage for the concept.
Full
All available learning outcomes.
Custom
A different combination selected manually.

For some concepts, Standard already includes all available learning outcomes, so it covers the same material as Full. If a manual selection matches a preset, the Composer can show that preset name. New concept selections start with Standard coverage.

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Concepts are alphabetical within each course area. Open a concept to see its outcomes.

General Economics

Shared foundations also appear in relevant Microeconomics and Macroeconomics selections. Each concept is listed once here.

Comparative Advantage and Gains from Trade

Available in: General Economics · Microeconomics · Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Apply opportunity costs and specialization to determine gains from trade
  • Evaluate terms of trade and the distribution of gains
  • Evaluate changing comparative advantage and model limitations
Competitive Markets

Available in: General Economics · Microeconomics · Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Identify competitive markets and price-taking behavior.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Demand

Available in: General Economics · Microeconomics · Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Apply the law of demand and distinguish movements from shifts
  • Analyze income effects, substitutes, and complements
  • Analyze demand shifters and combined market effects
Economists and Policy

Available in: General Economics · Microeconomics · Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Distinguish economic analysis from policy goals and advice
  • Evaluate policy evidence, uncertainty, and model limits
Import Quotas, Quota Rents & Tariff–Quota Comparison

Available in: General Economics · Microeconomics · Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Analyze import quotas, quota rents, domestic price and quantity effects, welfare consequences, and tariff-versus-quota differences.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Incentives

Available in: General Economics · Microeconomics · Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Identify incentives and predict behavioral responses
  • Evaluate incentive design and unintended consequences
  • Trace incentives through opportunity costs and marginal choices
Marginal Analysis

Available in: General Economics · Microeconomics · Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Use marginal benefits and costs while avoiding sunk-cost reasoning.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Market Equilibrium

Available in: General Economics · Microeconomics · Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Determine equilibrium and predict shortage and surplus adjustment
  • Predict equilibrium effects of demand or supply changes
  • Analyze simultaneous demand and supply changes
Microeconomics versus Macroeconomics

Available in: General Economics · Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Distinguish microeconomic and macroeconomic questions.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Models and Assumptions

Available in: General Economics · Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Interpret economic models, assumptions, and simplification
  • Evaluate model assumptions, evidence, and limits
Opportunity Cost

Available in: General Economics · Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Identify the next-best alternative in economic decisions
  • Calculate opportunity costs using resources and production tradeoffs
Positive versus Normative Analysis

Available in: General Economics · Microeconomics · Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Distinguish testable claims from value judgments.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Price Ceilings

Available in: General Economics · Microeconomics · Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Distinguish binding and nonbinding ceilings and analyze shortages and rationing.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Price Floors

Available in: General Economics · Microeconomics · Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Distinguish binding and nonbinding floors and analyze surpluses and unintended effects.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Production Possibilities Frontier

Available in: General Economics · Microeconomics · Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Interpret PPF slopes, shapes, and opportunity costs
  • Analyze feasible production, efficiency, and changes in capacity
Scarcity and Tradeoffs

Available in: General Economics · Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Identify scarcity, tradeoffs, and opportunity cost
  • Evaluate efficiency, equity, and policy tradeoffs
Statutory versus Economic Tax Incidence

Available in: General Economics · Microeconomics · Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Distinguish legal tax assignment from economic burden.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Supply

Available in: General Economics · Microeconomics · Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Apply the law of supply and distinguish movements from shifts
  • Analyze supply shifters, aggregation, and combined market effects
Tariffs, Revenue & Deadweight Loss

Available in: General Economics · Microeconomics · Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Analyze tariff revenue, surplus, and deadweight loss
  • Trace tariffs into domestic prices and traded quantities
Tax Incidence

Available in: General Economics · Microeconomics · Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Use relative elasticity to determine who bears a tax
  • Calculate buyer and seller burdens and distinguish burden from the wedge
Trade-Policy Arguments, Efficiency & Distribution

Available in: General Economics · Microeconomics · Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Evaluate trade-policy arguments using efficiency, distribution, evidence, and the tradeoffs created by protection.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

World Prices & Importer/Exporter Status

Available in: General Economics · Microeconomics · Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Interpret the world price and identify whether a small country imports or exports a good under free trade.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Microeconomics

Also explore the shared General Economics foundations.

Accounting, Economic & Normal Profit

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Calculate and interpret accounting profit, economic profit, implicit costs, and normal profit.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Advertising, Branding & Nonprice Competition

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Analyze advertising, product differentiation, and nonprice competition

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Applications of Elasticity

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Apply elasticity to tax incidence, deadweight-loss sensitivity, business pricing, policy, trade, and factor-market decisions.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Average Costs: AFC, AVC & ATC

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Calculate and interpret average fixed cost, average variable cost, average total cost, and their arithmetic relationships.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Changes in Surplus & Policy Effects

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Trace how price, quantity, and bounded policy changes redistribute or reduce consumer, producer, and total surplus.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Collusion, Cartels & Prisoner’s-Dilemma Incentives

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Analyze cartel pricing, welfare, and incentives to cooperate or cheat

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Competitive Efficiency & Model Limits

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Interpret allocative and productive efficiency and evaluate the perfect-competition benchmark and its limitations.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Consumer and Producer Surplus

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Interpret and calculate consumer surplus
  • Interpret and calculate producer surplus
  • Evaluate total gains, efficient allocation, and policy tradeoffs
Consumer Choice

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Interpret budget constraints and calculate affordable bundles
  • Analyze how changing budgets affect optimal consumer choices
  • Interpret preferences, indifference curves, and ordinal utility
Consumer Surplus & Willingness to Pay

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Use willingness to pay to calculate and interpret consumer surplus
  • Calculate and interpret consumer surplus on a graph
Cost Components & Cost Schedules

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Calculate and interpret fixed, variable, and total costs in short-run schedules

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Costs of Production

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Distinguish economic costs and accounting and economic profit
  • Calculate cost measures and interpret cost-curve relationships
  • Analyze long-run average cost, economies of scale, and efficient scale
  • Analyze production, productivity, and marginal product
Cross-Price Elasticity of Demand

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Calculate and interpret how demand for one good responds to a price change in another, including substitutes and complements.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Domestic Production, Consumption & Trade Quantities

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Determine domestic production, domestic consumption, imports, and exports when a country trades at the world price.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Dynamic Strategy: Repeated Games, Credibility & Entry Deterrence

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Analyze repeated interaction, credible commitments, and entry deterrence

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Economic Costs: Explicit, Implicit & Opportunity Cost

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Distinguish explicit and implicit costs and apply opportunity cost to owner-supplied labor, capital, and property.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Efficiency, Equity & Limits of Surplus Analysis

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Distinguish efficiency from equity and evaluate limits of willingness-to-pay and surplus measures as welfare tools.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Efficient Quantity & Allocation

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Identify marginal buyers and sellers, efficient quantity, efficient allocation, and competitive-market efficiency.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Elasticity

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Calculate and interpret supply elasticity
  • Interpret income and cross-price elasticity
  • Calculate demand elasticity and analyze its determinants
  • Use elasticity to analyze revenue, taxation, and business decisions
Elasticity and Total Revenue

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Connect demand elasticity to total revenue, unit elasticity, revenue maximization, and the marginal-revenue relationship.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Entry, Exit & Long-Run Equilibrium

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Trace entry, exit, zero economic profit, normal profit, and long-run competitive adjustment.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Entry, Exit & Long-Run Equilibrium

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Trace entry and exit to long-run profit, markups, and excess capacity

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Externalities

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Identify external effects and determine socially efficient outcomes
  • Evaluate private solutions, transaction costs, and the Coase theorem
  • Compare regulation and tradable-permit approaches
  • Evaluate corrective taxes, subsidies, and policy effectiveness
Factor Markets

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Calculate marginal product and its value to determine hiring
  • Evaluate minimum wages and monopsony in labor markets
  • Analyze labor supply, demand shifts, and market equilibrium
Gains from Trade, Surplus & Winners/Losers

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Calculate and interpret consumer, producer, and total-surplus changes from international trade and identify winners and losers.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Game Theory Foundations: Payoff Matrices, Best Responses & Nash Equilibrium

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Read payoff matrices and identify best responses and dominant strategies
  • Identify Nash equilibria and compare cooperative outcomes
Income Elasticity of Demand

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Calculate and interpret how demand responds to income changes, including normal, inferior, necessity, and luxury implications.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Income Inequality, Poverty, and Redistribution

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Measure income inequality and interpret poverty and income differences
  • Evaluate redistribution and antipoverty policies
Information Asymmetry, Behavioral Economics, and Political Economy

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Analyze asymmetric information, incentives, and information remedies
  • Analyze collective-choice rules and voting outcomes
  • Identify behavioral biases and apply them to economic decisions
Integrated Economic Analysis

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Apply economic models to linked market and macroeconomic scenarios

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

International Trade and Trade Policy

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Use world prices to determine trade status and quantities
  • Analyze tariffs, quotas, rents, and policy tradeoffs
  • Evaluate trade gains, losses, and distribution
Long-Run Industry Supply & Cost Conditions

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Distinguish constant-, increasing-, and decreasing-cost industries and compare short-run and long-run responses to demand changes.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

LRAC, Economies & Diseconomies of Scale

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Interpret long-run average cost, plant choice, economies of scale, diseconomies of scale, and their sources.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Marginal Cost & Production–Cost Linkages

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Calculate marginal cost and connect marginal product changes to the short-run marginal-cost curve.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Market Power

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Identify price-setting ability, barriers to entry, restricted output, allocative inefficiency, and deadweight loss from market power.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Market Structure & Product Differentiation

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Identify monopolistic competition and analyze how differentiation, close substitutes, and easy entry create limited firm-level market power.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Market Structure, Price Taking & Firm Revenue

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Connect competitive-market assumptions to price taking, the horizontal firm demand curve, and P = AR = MR.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Minimum Efficient Scale & Constant Returns to Scale

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Identify minimum efficient scale and interpret flat minimum-LRAC ranges as constant returns to scale.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Monopolistic Competition

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Analyze differentiated products and short-run firm choice
  • Analyze advertising and nonprice competition
  • Analyze entry, exit, excess capacity, and welfare tradeoffs
Monopoly

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Identify monopoly power and distinguish barriers to entry
  • Use demand and revenue to choose output and price
  • Evaluate monopoly regulation and price discrimination
  • Compare monopoly and competitive welfare
  • Analyze monopoly profit, loss, and shutdown
Monopoly Demand, Revenue & Marginal Revenue

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Interpret the monopolist’s downward-sloping demand, average revenue, marginal revenue, price effect, output effect, and elasticity-MR relationship.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Monopoly Power, Barriers to Entry & Sources of Monopoly

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Identify durable monopoly power and distinguish legal barriers, resource control, network effects, and natural-monopoly cost conditions.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Monopoly Profit, Loss & Shutdown

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Calculate monopoly profit or loss, interpret break-even, and distinguish producing at a loss from short-run shutdown.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Monopoly Welfare, Efficiency & Competitive Comparison

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Compare monopoly with competition using output, price, consumer surplus, deadweight loss, allocative inefficiency, and rent seeking.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Natural Monopoly & Regulation

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Analyze natural-monopoly cost structure and evaluate marginal-cost pricing, average-cost pricing, price caps, subsidies, and regulatory tradeoffs.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Oligopoly

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Read payoff matrices and identify strategic equilibria
  • Identify oligopoly and analyze strategic interdependence
  • Evaluate concentration, mergers, and antitrust tradeoffs
  • Analyze repeated interaction, credibility, and strategic entry
  • Analyze cartels, collusion, and incentives to cheat
Oligopoly Structure, Strategic Interdependence & Concentration

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Identify oligopoly and entry barriers; calculate and interpret market concentration

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Oligopoly Welfare, Mergers & Antitrust Tradeoffs

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Evaluate concentration, mergers, cartel welfare, and antitrust tradeoffs

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Perfect Competition

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Identify price taking and apply revenue and marginal output rules
  • Analyze entry, exit, long-run equilibrium, and efficiency
  • Calculate profit and loss and apply shutdown and supply rules
Price Discrimination

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Analyze the conditions for discrimination, resale prevention, third-degree pricing, first-degree discrimination, elasticity, and welfare effects.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Price Elasticity of Demand

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Interpret demand elasticity and limiting cases
  • Compare determinants of demand responsiveness
  • Calculate elasticity and distinguish it from slope
Price Elasticity of Supply

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Calculate and interpret supply elasticity
  • Compare supply responsiveness across capacity limits and adjustment periods
Price Signals

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Trace price signals through buyer, seller, and resource-allocation decisions

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Producer Surplus & Willingness to Accept

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Use willingness to accept to calculate and interpret producer surplus
  • Calculate and interpret producer surplus on a graph
Product Variety, Efficiency & Model Limits

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Evaluate product variety and the efficiency limits of monopolistic competition

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Profit-Maximizing Output & Monopoly Price

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Apply MR = MC with the rising-MC condition to choose monopoly output, then use demand to determine the corresponding price.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Profit-Maximizing Output & the MR = MC Rule

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Choose the firm’s profit-maximizing or loss-minimizing output using marginal revenue, marginal cost, and the rising-MC condition.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Profit, Loss & Break-Even

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Measure per-unit and total economic profit or loss and interpret break-even and zero economic profit.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Public Goods and Common Resources

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Analyze common-resource overuse and property-rights solutions
  • Classify goods by rivalry and excludability and identify free-rider incentives
  • Evaluate public-good provision, financing, and social benefits
Short-Run Cost Curves: Relationships & Shifts

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Analyze relationships among AFC, AVC, ATC, and MC and distinguish fixed-cost from variable-cost curve shifts.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Short-Run Firm Choice, Profit/Loss & Shutdown

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Use MR = MC, firm demand, ATC, and AVC to determine output, price, profit or loss, and short-run shutdown.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Short-Run Production & Diminishing Marginal Product

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Analyze fixed and variable inputs, total product, marginal product, average product, and diminishing marginal product in the short run.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Short-Run Supply & Cost Shifts

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Determine short-run firm and market supply and distinguish fixed- from variable-cost shifts

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Shutdown & Short-Run Loss Minimization

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Apply the AVC shutdown rule and distinguish producing at a loss, shutdown, and exit

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Sunk & Avoidable Costs

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Distinguish sunk from avoidable costs and use forward-looking incremental reasoning in current production decisions.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Tacit Coordination, Price Leadership & Nonprice Competition

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Analyze rivalry and tacit coordination; distinguish parallel behavior from collusion

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Tax Wedges and Revenue

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Calculate tax wedges, buyer and seller prices, quantity effects, and revenue.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Total Surplus & Gains from Exchange

Available in: Microeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Calculate and interpret total surplus and gains from exchange

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Macroeconomics

Also explore the shared General Economics foundations.

AD-AS Equilibrium and Output Gaps

Available in: Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Interpret AD-AS equilibrium and distinguish recessionary and inflationary output gaps

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Aggregate Demand

Available in: Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Interpret the aggregate-demand curve and trace the causes of its slope
  • Identify aggregate-demand shifters and predict their effects
Bank Balance Sheets, Reserves, and Capital

Available in: Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Analyze bank assets and liabilities, required and excess reserves, lending capacity, capital, leverage, and losses.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Budget Accounting and Public Saving

Available in: Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Classify fiscal transactions and calculate public saving
  • Calculate and interpret budget surpluses and deficits
Capital Flows and Net Capital Outflow

Available in: Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Classify asset transactions and calculate net capital outflow
  • Trace interest rates, risk, and capital flight into investment flows
Central Banking and the Federal Reserve

Available in: Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Identify central-bank roles and structure; analyze independence and policy decisions

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Costs of Inflation

Available in: Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Analyze redistribution, shoeleather costs, menu costs, and price distortions.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

CPI and Inflation Measurement

Available in: Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Calculate CPI and inflation using a market basket.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

CPI Bias

Available in: Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Analyze substitution, quality, and new-goods bias.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

CPI versus GDP Deflator

Available in: Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Compare the construction and uses of CPI and the GDP deflator.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Crowding Out and Capital Formation

Available in: Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Trace government borrowing through real interest rates, private investment, and capital formation.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Debt Measures, Debt Burden, and Fiscal Data

Available in: Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Distinguish debt measures and interpret debt relative to GDP
  • Evaluate debt-service burdens using fiscal data
Deficits, Debt, and Government Borrowing

Available in: Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Distinguish deficits, debt, and government borrowing
  • Trace persistent deficits, borrowing, and debt changes over time
Demand and Supply Shocks

Available in: Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Trace supply shocks and identify stagflation
  • Trace demand shocks through the AD-AS model
  • Evaluate combined shocks and stabilization tradeoffs
Deposit Creation and the Money Multiplier

Available in: Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Analyze fractional-reserve deposit creation, redeposit chains, multiplier mechanics, and reserve-ratio reasoning.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Disinflation and Policy

Available in: Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Trace monetary disinflation, unemployment costs, and expectations adjustment.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Economic Growth Policy

Available in: Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Evaluate policies affecting long-run productivity and growth.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Fiscal Multipliers and Crowding Out

Available in: Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Evaluate crowding out and the net fiscal effect
  • Calculate and apply the spending multiplier
Fiscal Policy and Aggregate Demand

Available in: Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Trace taxes and household spending into aggregate demand
  • Identify fiscal policy actions and predict government-purchase effects on demand
Fisher Effect

Available in: Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Connect expected inflation to nominal and real interest rates.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Foreign-Exchange Market Equilibrium

Available in: Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Identify currency-market demand, supply, and equilibrium
  • Analyze single and combined currency-market shifts
GDP Components

Available in: Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Classify GDP expenditure components and calculate their contributions

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

GDP Measurement

Available in: Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Apply the income–expenditure identity and GDP inclusion and exclusion rules.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Indexing and Real Values

Available in: Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Convert nominal values across time and apply indexation.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Inflation Tax and Deflation

Available in: Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Analyze seigniorage, the inflation tax, disinflation, and deflation burdens.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

International Transactions and Open-Economy Identities

Available in: Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Apply net-capital-outflow and saving-investment identities
  • Classify international transactions and calculate net exports
Labor-Market Institutions

Available in: Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Analyze minimum wages, unions, job search, and efficiency wages.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Limits of GDP

Available in: Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Evaluate GDP as a measure of well-being.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Limits of Monetary Control

Available in: Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Evaluate currency drain, excess reserves, leverage risk, and multiplier slippage.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Liquidity Preference and the Money Market

Available in: Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Analyze money-demand shifts, policy offsets, and spending effects
  • Apply liquidity preference to determine money-market equilibrium
Living Standards and Growth

Available in: Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Use real GDP per person and compounding to compare living standards.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Loanable-Funds Equilibrium

Available in: Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Analyze loanable-funds equilibrium and distinguish movement along curves from curve shifts.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Loanable-Funds Shifts

Available in: Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Analyze saving-supply, investment-demand, and simultaneous shifts in loanable-funds markets.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Long-Run Aggregate Supply and Potential Output

Available in: Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Analyze LRAS, natural or potential output, productive capacity, and long-run aggregate-supply shifts.

One coherent outcome. Brief, Standard, and Full select the same coverage.

Long-Run Macroeconomic Self-Adjustment

Available in: Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Trace short-run-to-long-run self-correction and movement back toward potential output.

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Long-Run Phillips Curve

Available in: Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Apply the natural-rate hypothesis and vertical long-run Phillips curve.

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Monetary Neutrality

Available in: Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Distinguish nominal and real variables and analyze long-run neutrality.

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Monetary-Policy Tools

Available in: Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Apply open-market operations, administered rates, and reserve tools.

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Monetary-Policy Transmission

Available in: Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Trace monetary policy through interest rates, investment, aggregate demand, and output.

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Money Functions and Measures

Available in: Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Identify money functions and distinguish forms and payment technologies
  • Classify and calculate M1 and M2
Natural Rate of Unemployment

Available in: Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Interpret the natural rate and deviations caused by business cycles.

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Nominal Exchange Rates and Currency Values

Available in: Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Interpret exchange-rate quotes, conversions, and currency changes
  • Analyze exchange-rate effects on prices, purchasing power, and asset values
Open-Economy Policy and Macroeconomic Transmission

Available in: Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Trace trade policy, monetary changes, and capital flight across markets
  • Trace saving and fiscal changes through interest rates, currency values, and net exports
Phillips-Curve Expectations

Available in: Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Analyze expected inflation and supply shocks as Phillips-curve shifters.

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Productivity Measurement

Available in: Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Calculate output per worker and interpret productivity changes.

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Quantity Theory of Money

Available in: Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Apply the quantity equation and interpret money-market adjustment
  • Connect money growth, output growth, velocity, and inflation
Real Exchange Rates and Purchasing Power

Available in: Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Calculate real exchange rates and evaluate purchasing-power parity as a long-run benchmark.

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Real versus Nominal GDP

Available in: Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Distinguish nominal and real GDP and calculate the GDP deflator.

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Real versus Nominal Interest Rates

Available in: Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Calculate and interpret real and nominal interest rates.

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Sacrifice Ratio

Available in: Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Calculate and interpret output losses associated with disinflation.

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Saving, Investment, and National-Saving Identities

Available in: Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Apply private, public, and national saving identities and the saving-investment relationship.

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Short-Run Aggregate Supply

Available in: Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Analyze the SRAS slope, expected prices, input costs, productivity, and short-run aggregate-supply shifts.

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Short-Run Phillips Curve

Available in: Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Interpret movements along the short-run inflation–unemployment tradeoff.

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Sources of Productivity

Available in: Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Analyze physical capital, human capital, natural resources, and technology.

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Stabilization Policy

Available in: Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Evaluate policy lags, automatic stabilizers, and supply-shock tradeoffs
  • Choose and evaluate policy responses to output gaps
Types of Unemployment

Available in: Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Distinguish frictional, structural, and cyclical unemployment.

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Unemployment Measurement

Available in: Macroeconomics

Available learning outcomes:

  • Classify labor-force status and calculate unemployment and participation rates.

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