ECO 1102 Chapter 8: Textbook Notes
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Eco 1102 chapter 8 textbook notes - the cost of living https://www. thedubrovniktimes. com/news/croatia/item/908-cost-of-living-the-most-expensive-in- dubrovnik. The cost of living - the average cost of basic necessities, such as housing and food. The cost of purchasing goods and services essential for survival. Market basket - a representative group of goods and services used to compile the consumer price index https://kingdomecon. wordpress. com/2017/10/14/wake-up-media-pundits-traders-digital-money-i s-not-wealth/ It"s important because a market basket serves as a benchmark for measuring the price performance of other items in a market. The quality of a particular market basket is apparent in how closely the behavior of items in a market basket resembles the behavior of the overall financial market or the economy as a whole. Market baskets give investors and policy makers a simpler way of measuring and predicting market trends. Basket approach - it measures changes in the cost of your shopping basket, assuming that you buy the same items in the same quantities.
