Economics
Economics
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ISBN: 9781319066604
Author: Paul Krugman, Robin Wells
Publisher: Worth Publishers
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Chapter 26, Problem 8P
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How the given events affect planned investment spending and unplanned investment spending.

Concept Introduction:

Investment spending ( I ): All those spending which are done on physical capital which means that only expenses that increase economy level of physical capital is known as investment spending. There are two types of investment spending planned and unplanned.

Planned Investments: All those investments that businesses intend to take in given time. It is not certain rather properly thought of.

Unplanned Investment: All those investments that businesses do not intend to take in given time. It is certain due to some external factors like fall in interest rate and increase in future profitability.

Inventory: All those goods that are kept for sale at a time of emergency. They are unsold items.

Inventory Investment: It is the value of variation in total inventories which are kept in the economy for a given interval of time. They are of two types planned and unplanned inventory investment.

Unplanned Inventory Investment: When the real sales are greater or lesser than the amount of sales which are estimated by the firm. Then it leads to unplanned inventory investment.

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