Assignment 7 Econ 343
Assignment 7 Econ 343
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MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1) According to the original Keynesian school, the primary source of the business cycle is: 1)
A) FED policy with regards to monetary policy (money supply changes) and its effect on
aggregate demand.
B) supply side shocks from technological change.
C) the instability of investment and consumption spending by investors and consumers.
D) from unexpected fluctuations in aggregate demand in a rare divergence from normal rational
expectations.
E) from unexpected fluctuations in aggregate demand and the fact that today’s money wage
rates were negotiated at past dates.....thus past rational expectations of the current price level
influence the current wage rate.
2) According to many modern classical economists, the economic system that is most efficient is: (i.e. 2)
implying minimal regulations, small social safety net, and low tax rates) is:
A) also the most fair system to the poor and disadvantaged.
B) unfair to the poor and violates the basic premises of the classical model.
C) undesirable and the size of government should be increased for greater fairness.
D) still desirable despite being unfair to the poor and disadvantaged.
3) Rational expectations are 3)
A) impossible to make because they are assumed to be always accurate.
B) based on all relevant information.
C) possible to make and are always accurate.
D) used in the labor market but not in the financial markets.
4) For monetarists the main cause of economic fluctuations is changes in 4)
A) investment. B) consumption expenditure.
C) the levels of household debt. D) inappropriate monetary policy.
5) Keynes used the term ʺanimal spiritsʺ to represent 5)
A) changes in imports and exports.
B) volatile investment spending arising from fluctuations in business confidence.
C) the ease of forecasting.
D) investment based on hard facts about the future.
6) The Keynesian explanation of the business cycle rests on several concepts, including 6)
A) shocks to the rate of technological change.
B) unstable monetary policy by the Fed.
C) the desire of politicians to be re-elected.
D) rigid money wage rates (i.e. sticky prices and wages).
7) Which theory distinguishes between expected and unexpected fluctuations in aggregate demand 7)
and asserts that only unexpected changes can affect real GDP?
A) Keynesian cycle theory B) real business cycle theory
C) monetarist cycle theory D) new classical cycle theory
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8) One assumption of the new classical model is that 8)
A) money wage rates are rigid.
B) markets are not purely competitive.
C) prices are ʺstickyʺ upward.
D) people make rational expectations about aggregate demand.
9) According to the new Keynesian theory, 9)
A) expected changes in aggregate demand change real GDP.
B) unexpected changes in aggregate demand change real GDP.
C) current and past expectations of the price level determine the money wage rate.
D) All of the answers are correct.
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17) Keynes used the term ʺanimal spiritsʺ to represent 17)
A) fluctuations in business confidence and its effect on economic investment.
B) the ease of forecasting.
C) changes in peopleʹs consumption expenditures.
D) investment based on hard facts about the future.
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26) Substantial and lengthy sticky prices and wages are a property of the__________ school of thought. 26)
A) monetarist
B) Keynesian
C) classical
D) real business cycle
E) rational expectations/new classical
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34) According to aggregate demand and supply analysis, the rising oil prices coupled with the global 34)
financial crisis in 2007-2008 caused the unemployment rate to ________ and the level of real
aggregate output to ________.
A) decrease; decrease B) increase; increase
C) increase; decrease D) decrease; increase
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41) Nonactivists of the policies believe that 41)
A) wages and prices are very flexible.
B) the self-correcting mechanism is very rapid.
C) government action is unnecessary.
D) all of the answers in this question.
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48) If decision makers become so pessimistic that all new money injected into the economy by the FED 48)
becomes hoarded and not loaned out or spent, we are in a:
A) liquidity trap. B) new classical trap.
C) velocity trap. D) 1970ʹs.
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Answer Key
Testname: ASSIGNMENT 7 ECON 343 F18 18
1) C
2) A
3) B
4) D
5) B
6) D
7) D
8) D
9) D
10) B
11) E
12) E
13) A
14) C
15) A
16) B
17) A
18) D
19) D
20) B
21) A
22) D
23) D
24) B
25) D
26) B
27) E
28) C
29) B
30) B
31) C
32) E
33) B
34) C
35) D
36) B
37) C
38) B
39) E
40) D
41) D
42) A
43) D
44) D
45) A
46) A
47) D
48) A
49) E
50) A
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Answer Key
Testname: ASSIGNMENT 7 ECON 343 F18 18
51) C
52) D
53) A