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an open economy GDP Is always given by
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Y=C+I+G+Nx
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net capital outflow equals the difference between a country's
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Purchases of foreign assets and sales of domestic assets aboard
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in the open economy marco model. the market for loanable funds identity can be written as
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S=I+NCO
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In an open economy, the source for the demand of loanable funds come from
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investment + net capital outflow
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suppose the U.S supply of loanable funds shifted Left this will
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Decrease U.S net capital outflow and decrease the quantity
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if the supply of loanable funds shifted right then the equilibrium
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levels of net capital outflow and domestic investment increase
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an increase in the U.S government budget deficit shifts the
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supply of loanable funds, left decreasing both domestic investment (I) and net capital outflow
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a country has a private saving of $100 billion public savings of $30 billion, domestic investment of $50 billion and the net capital outflow of $20 billion what is its supply of loanable funds?
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$70 billion
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a tax on imported goods is called a
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Tariff
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a limit on the quantity of good produced abroad that can be purchased domestically is called
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import Quota
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if the U.S imposed Quotas on cotton from china so that the U.S had less imports then
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the U.S real exchange rate rises but the U.S exports remain the same
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when Mexico 1944 suffers from capital flight
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more mexico domestic capital were flowing towards foreign countries, cause the real exchange rate of peso depreciate
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the most important lesson from trade policy is that if the U.S wishes to decline trade deficit and increase domestic jobs by imposing import quota on foreign products
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trade deficit would not be reduced, but while the domestic jobs can be saved, jobs in exporting firms in the US will be destroyed.
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from the graph we have seen in class which part of real GDP fluctuates the most over the business cycle
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investment expenditures
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the classical dichotomy refers to the separation of
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real & nominal variables
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the curve that shows the total quanity of goods and services that firm product and sell in a country
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is called the aggrete - supply curve which is upward sloping in terms of price level in the short run
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the aggregate demand curve
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shows an inverse relation between the price level and the quantity of all goods and service demanded
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when taxes decrease consumption
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increase as shown by a shift on the aggregate demand curve to the right
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according to classical marco theory, changes in the money supply affects
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nominal variable but not real variables
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changes in the price level affect which components of
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consumption, and net exports
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from 2001- 2005 there was a dramatic rise in the price of houses. if this rise made ppl feel wealthier then it would have shifted
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aggregated demand curve right
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the long run aggregate supply curve
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all the above are correct
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the long run aggregate supply curve shifts right if?
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all the above are correct
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the appearance of the long run aggregate supply (LRAS) curve
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all the above are correct
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the shift of the short run aggregate supply curve from SRAS1 to SRAS2
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could be caused by increase in technology
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a goal of monetary policy & fiscal policy is to
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offset shifts in aggregate demand and there by stabilize the economy
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the interest rate effects
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in the U.S is the most important reason that causes the downward slope of aggregated demand curve
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according the the theory of liquidity preference
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the monetary policy affects AD through interest rate since ppl prefer to increase money demand by holding liquid assets, like cash when interest rate is low
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as the interest rate falls, the theory of liquidity predicts that
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the quantity of money demand rises
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Fiscal policy refers to the idea that aggregate demand is affected by changes in
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government spending (g) & taxes (t)
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which of the following events shifts aggragted demand rightward?
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an increase in government expenditures but not a change in the price level
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the government builds a new water treatment - plan, the owner of the company that builds the plant pays her workers, the workers increase there spending, firms from which the workers buy goods increase their output. this is a type of effect on spending illustrates
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the multiplier effect
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the term crowding - out effect refers to
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the reduction in aggregate demand that results when a Fiscal expansion causes the interest rate to eventually increase thus decreasing (or crowding - out) domestic investment
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the employment act of 1946 states that
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the government should promote full employment & production
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Keynes argued that aggregate demand is
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unstable because waves of pessism & optimism create Fluctuations in aggregated demand
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people who disagree with heavily using monetary policy or fiscal policy to stabilize economy in the short run claim that both polices
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impact on aggregate demand serval months after policy is implemented so there will be a time lag
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suppose that businesses & consumers become much more optimistic about the Future of the economy. to stabilize output, the federal reserve could
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decreases money supply to raise interest rates
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which of the following is correct
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in the short run, unemployment & inflation are positively related, in the long run they are largely unrelated problems
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in the long run, which of the following depends primarily on the growth rate of the money supplies
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inflation but not the nation rate of unemployment
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the short run relationship between inflation & unemployment is often called
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the Phillips curve
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in the late 1960s miton Friedman & Edmund phepls argued that
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the trade off between inflation & unemployment did not apply in the long run. this claim is consistent with monetary neutrality in the long run
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in the long run an increase in the money supply
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raises prices but leave unemployment unchanged
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according to Friedman & phelps, policymakers face a trade off between inflation & unemployment
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only in the short run
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an event that directly affects firms cost of production and thus the price they change is called
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a supply shock
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what is measured along the horizontal axis of the right handed graph
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the unemployment rate
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the shift of aggregated demand curve from AS1 to AS2
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represents an adverse shock to aggregated supply, this moves the point from C to D representing Higher inflation and unemployment
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which of the following events could explain the shift of the aggregated - supply curve from AS1 to AS2
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an increase in the world price of oil
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Disinflation is reduction in
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the inflation rate
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the Volcker disinflation
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caused inflation to fall but with high unemployment rate
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in development economics we in general ask the central question of
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all the above
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over the past century in the united states, real GDP per person has grown on average by about
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2% per year
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the curve becomes flatter as the amount of capital per worker increase because of
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diminishing returns to capital
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measuring unemployment is the job of
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Bureau of Labor statistics
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suppose you $100 into a bank account. interest rate is paid ann. and the annual rate is 5 percent, the future value of your $100 after 2 years is
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$110.25
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the economy two most important financial markets are
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banks and the stock market
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institution that help to match one person saving with another person investment are collectively called the
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financial system
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in a called economy (Y-T-C) means
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private savings
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the major factors the potentially affect productivity in a classical production function includes
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all the above are correct
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from a classical point of view in development economics we know that policies that may increase productive include
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all the above apply
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if the interest rate is 7% then what is the present value of $1000 to be received after 3 years
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$816.30
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From the rule of 70 we saw last week, at an annual interest rate of 2 percent, about how many years will it take
$500 to double in value?
$500 to double in value?
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35
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If the inflation rate increases but the nominal rate of interest remains the same, the real interest rate on a
bank's savings account will
bank's savings account will
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Fall, because the real interest rate indicates how fast the true purchasing power of the account rises over time.
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Which of the following would increase productivity?
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all the above are correct
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Suppose the economy begins in long run
equilibrium at point A. If private investment spending increases due to an increase in business optimism,
equilibrium at point A. If private investment spending increases due to an increase in business optimism,
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E in the short run and C in the long run
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If the economy is currently booming excessively, so that actual GDP is greater than potential GDP and
bubbles are starting to appear in real estate and stock markets, Keynesian economists would recommend
which of the following as the most effective policy to stabilize the economy?
bubbles are starting to appear in real estate and stock markets, Keynesian economists would recommend
which of the following as the most effective policy to stabilize the economy?
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Raise taxes and decrease government spending.