- 1 Computing Output 30 Points Consider An Economy With Two Firms Firm A Produces Cotton And Firm B Produces Cotton S 1 (136.15 KiB) Viewed 15 times
1. Computing output (30 points). Consider an economy with two firms. Firm A produces cotton and firm B produces cotton swabs. In a given year, firm A produces 100,000 pounds of cotton, sells 40,000 pounds of cotton to firm B at $3 per pound, and exports 60,000 pounds of cotton at $3 per pound. Firm A pays $100,000 in wages to consumers. Firm B produces 50,000,000 cotton swabs, sells 40,000,000 cotton swabs to domestic consumers at $0.04 per swab, and stores 10,000,000 cotton swabs as inventory. Firm B pays consumers $40,000 in wages. In addition to the 40,000,000 cotton swabs consumers buy from firm B, consumers import and consume 5,000,000 cotton swabs, and they pay $0.06 per cotton swab. Calculate GDP using a. the production/value added approach. b. the expenditure approach. c. the income approach.