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What will happen to consumption and savings when output increases?
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both increase
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What will happen to consumption and savings when the expected future output increases?
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C increases; S decreases
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What will happen to consumption and savings when wealth increases?
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C increases, S Decreases
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What will happen to consumption and savings when there is an increase in the expected real interest rate? (sub effect dominates)
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C decreases; S increases
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What will happen to consumption and savings when there is an increase in the expected real interest rate? (inc effect dominates - saver)
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C increases, S decreases
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What will happen to consumption and savings when there is an increase in the expected real interest rate? (inc effect dominates - borrower)
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C decreases; S increases
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What will happen to consumption and savings when there is an increase in government purchases?
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C decreases, S increases
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What will happen to consumption and savings when there is an increase in taxes? (Ricardian Equivalence Holds)
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Nothing to either
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What will happen to consumption and savings when there is an increase in taxes? (Ricardian Equivalence doesn't Hold)
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C decreases; S increases
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What happens to labor demand curve when there is increased productivity?
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shift right
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What happens to labor demand curve when there is decrease in capital stock?
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shift left
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What happens to Labor Supply curve when there is an increase in wealth?
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Shift left
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What happens to Labor Supply curve when there is an increase in expected future real wage?
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shift left
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What happens to Labor Supply curve when there is an increase in the working age population?
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shift right
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What happens to Labor Supply curve when there is an increase in labor force participation?
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shift right
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What happens to both labor demand or supply when current wage increases or decreases?
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neither shift
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What happens to the savings demand curve when there is an increase in current output?
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shift right
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What happens to the savings demand curve when there is an increase in expected future output?
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shift left
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What happens to the savings demand curve when there is an increase in wealth?
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shift left
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What happens to the savings demand curve when there is an increase in government purchases?
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shift left
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What happens to the savings demand curve when there is an increase in taxes (RE holds)?
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none
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What happens to the savings demand curve when there is an increase in taxes (RE doesn't hold)?
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shift right
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What happens to the investment curve when there is an increase in the effective tax rate?
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shift left
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What happens to the investment curve when there is an increase in expected future MPK?
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shift right
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What happens to money demand when there is an increase in price level? (P)
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demand increases
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What happens to money demand when there is an increase in real income/output? (Y)
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demand increases
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What happens to money demand when there is an increase in real interest rate of alternative assets? (r)
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demand decreases
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What happens to money demand when there is an increase in expected inflation rate? (expected pi)
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demand decreases
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What happens to money demand when there is an increase in the nominal interest rate of money? (i)
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demand increases
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What happens to money demand when there is an increase in wealth?
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demand increases
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What happens to money demand when there is an increase in the risk of alternative assets?
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demand increases
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What happens to money demand when there is an increase in the risk of money?
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demand decreases
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What happens to money demand when there is an increase in the liquidity of alternative assets?
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demand decreases
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What happens to money demand when there is an increase in the efficiency of payment technologies?
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demand decreases
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What happens to the monetary base, money multiplier, and money supply when there is an increase in the reserve deposit ratio?
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monetary base: unchanged
money multiplier: decrease
money supply: decrease
money multiplier: decrease
money supply: decrease
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What happens to the monetary base, money multiplier, and money supply when there is an increase in the currency-deposit ratio?
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monetary base: unchanged
money multiplier: decrease
money supply: decrease
money multiplier: decrease
money supply: decrease
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What happens to the monetary base, money multiplier, and money supply when there is an open-market purchase
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monetary base: increase
money multiplier: unchanged
money supply: increase
money multiplier: unchanged
money supply: increase
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What happens to the monetary base, money multiplier, and money supply when there is an increase in reserve requirements?
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monetary base: unchanged
money multiplier: decrease
money supply: decrease
money multiplier: decrease
money supply: decrease
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What happens to the monetary base, money multiplier, and money supply when there is an increase in discount window borrowing?
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monetary base: increase
money multiplier: unchanged
money supply: increase
money multiplier: unchanged
money supply: increase
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What happens to the monetary base, money multiplier, and money supply when there is an increase in the discount rate
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monetary base: decrease
money multiplier: unchanged
money supply: decrease
money multiplier: unchanged
money supply: decrease
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What happens to the monetary base, money multiplier, and money supply when there is an increase in the interest rate paid on reserves
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monetary base: unchanged
money multiplier: decrease
money supply: decrease
money multiplier: decrease
money supply: decrease
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How does lowering money supply affect the Federal funds rate?
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it increases the fed funds rate
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What are examples of unconventional monetary policy?
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Forward guidance, Quantitative Easing (purchase long term treasuries or purchase risky assets like mortgage-backed securities), lowering long-term riskless yields, lowering short term risky yields
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How does an increase in future output affect the IS curve?
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up and to the right
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How does an increase in wealth affect the IS curve?
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up and to the right
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How does an increase in government expenditure affect the IS curve?
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up and to the right
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How does an increase in current taxes affect the IS curve? RE Holds
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no change
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How does an increase in current taxes affect the IS curve? RE doesn't hold
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up and to the right
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How does an increase in the expected future marginal productivity of capital affect the IS curve?
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up and to the right
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How does an increase in the effective tax rate on capital affect the IS curve?
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down and to the left
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How does an increase in nominal money supply (M) affect the LM curve?
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down and to the right
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How does an increase in price level (P) affect the LM curve?
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up and to the left
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How does an increase in expected inflation affect the LM curve?
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down and to the right
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How does an increase in wealth affect the LM curve?
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up and to the left
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How does an increase in the relative risk of alternative assets affect the LM curve?
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up and to the left
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How does an increase in the liquidity of alternative assets affect the LM curve?
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down and to the right
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How does an increase in the efficiency of alternative assets affect the LM curve?
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down and to the right
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How does a negative shock in the productivity assets affect the FE curve?
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left
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How does an increase in labor supply affect the FE curve?
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right
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How does an increase in capital stock affect the FE curve?
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right
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Under RBC, employment's cyclicality is
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pro-cyclical
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Under RBC, real wage's cyclicality is
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pro-cyclical
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Under RBC, labor productivity's cyclicality is
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pro-cyclical
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Under RBC, inflation's cyclicality is
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counter-cyclical
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Under RBC, unemployment's cyclicality is
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a-cyclical
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Under Keynesian, employment's cyclicality is
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pro-cyclical
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Under Keynesian, real wage's cyclicality is
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pro-cyclical
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Under Keynesian, labor productivity's cyclicality is
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counter-cyclical
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Under Keynesian, inflation's cyclicality is
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pro-cyclical
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Under Keynesian, unemployment's cyclicality is
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counter-cyclical
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Under RBC, is monetary policy neutral?
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yes
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Under Keynesian, is monetary policy neutral?
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no, in the short run, it can affect real variables
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Under RBC, is fiscal policy neutral?
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no, it can have a small impact on output through the FE curve
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Under Keynesian, is fiscal policy neutral?
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No, it can have a large impact on output through the IS curve in the short run
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How do prices adjust in Keynesian?
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they are slow/sticky to readjust
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How do prices adjust in RBC?
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immediately
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What equation does PPP imply?
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exchange rate nominal = price of a foreign good/price of domestic good
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Equation for the real exchange rate
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e = (nominal e * P domestic)/(P foreign)
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Percentage change in real exchange rate
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change in e/e = (change in nominal e - nominal e) + domestic inflation - foreign exchange rate
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How does an increase in domestic output affect the real exchange rate?
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fall
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How does a decrease in foreign output affect the real exchange rate?
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fall
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How does an increase in the domestic real interest rate affect the real exchange rate?
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rise
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How does an increase in foreign real interest rate affect the real exchange rate?
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fall
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How does a decrease in world demand for domestic goods affect the real exchange rate?
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fall
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How does an increase in domestic output affect the NX curve?
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left and down
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How does an increase in foreign output affect the NX curve?
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right and up
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How does an increase in foreign real interest rate affect the NX curve?
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right and up
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How does an increase in the world demand for domestic goods affect the NX curve?
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right and up
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How does an increase in domestic output affect the NX?
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fall
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How does an increase in foreign output affect the NX?
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rise
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How does an increase in the domestic real interest rate affect the NX?
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fall
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How does an increase in world demand for domestic goods affect the NX?
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rise
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How does an increase in the foreign real interest rate affect the NX?
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rise
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Open Economy: How does an increase in the foreign output affect the IS curve?
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right and up
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Open Economy: How does an increase in the foreign real interest rate affect the IS curve?
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right and up
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Open Economy: How does an increase in the world demand for domestic goods affect the IS curve?
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right and up
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Open Economy: How does an increase in the domestic output affect the real exchange rate?
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fall
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Open Economy: How does an increase in the domestic real interest rate affect the real exchange rate?
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rise
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Open Economy: How does an increase in the domestic output affect net exports?
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fall
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Open Economy: How does an increase in the domestic real interest rate affect net exports?
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fall
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unemployment rate
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unemployed/labor force
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Participation Rate
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labor force / population 16+
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employment ratio
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employed/population 16+
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cyclical unemployment
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individuals who want to work and have the necessary skills, but cannot find a job
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structural unemployment
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mismatch between workers' skills and firms' requirments
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frictional unemployment
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matching between workers and firms take time
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natural rate of umemployment
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when the only individuals unemployed are due to structural or frictional unemployment
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Okun's Law
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a 1% increase in unemployment results in a 2% decrease in GDP
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user cost of capital
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UC=(r+d)Pk
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Tobin's q
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V/K*price of capital; if V/K> price of capital, a firm should invest
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Taylor's Rule Equation
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i = pi + .02 + 0.5y + 0.5(pi-.02); y = % difference between actual employment and full employment output
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What are unconventional ways to stimulate demand?
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lower long term riskless yields, lower short term risky yields
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forward guidance
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communication by the central bank about future policy prospects
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quantitative easing
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the purchase of long term government and private mortgage-backed securities by central banks to make credit available in hopes of stimulating aggregate demand
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the Phillips curve
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tradeoff between unemployment and inflation; downward sloping; inflation on y axis, unemployment on x-axis
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expectations-augmented Phillips curve
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inflation = expected inflation - h(u - u(bar))
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According to expectations-augmented phillips curve, if expected inflation is 5%, and actual inflation is 5%, then unemployment should
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not necessarily be higher or lower
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According to expectations-augmented phillips curve, if expected inflation is 5%, and actual inflation is 7%, then unemployment should
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expect to see low unemployment rate
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According to expectations-augmented phillips curve, if expected inflation is 5%, and actual inflation is 3%, then unemployment should
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expect to see high unemployment rate
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money multiplier
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cu+1/cu+res or CU + DEP/ CU + RES
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RES
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federal res + vaults
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DEP
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total deposit
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currency in circulation
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CU + vault
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intensive margin
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changes in the number of hours worked
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extensive margin
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changes in the number of workers
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PCE
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personal consumption expenditure
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core PCE
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The Personal Consumption Expenditures deflator that has the impact of food and energy costs removed.
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CPI
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(consumer price index) a measure of the overall cost of the goods and services bought by a typical consumer
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GDP deflator
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a measure of the price level calculated as the ratio of nominal GDP to real GDP times 100
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Okun's Law has to do with which kind of employment
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cyclical
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GDP
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Gross Domestic Product- the total market value of all final goods and services produced annually in an economy - physically in the country
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GNP
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Gross National Product - the sum of all goods and services produced in a nation in a year - not physically in the country
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What will happen to consumption and savings when an individual receives a bonus?
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C will increase and S will increase
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What does an inverted yield curve imply?
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the market expects future interest rates to decline