A. The economy will experience an increase in inflation
B. The economy will experience a decrease in inflation
C. Inflation will be unaffected if price expectations are unchanging
D. None of these answers
Related Mcqs:
- If a country’s policy makers were to continuously use expansionary monetary policy in an attempt to hold unemployment below the natural rate the long-run result would be ?
A. an increase in the level of output
B. a decrease in the unemployment rate
C. an increase in the rate of inflation
D. All of these answers - The short run marginal cost curve cuts the short run total cost curve and short run average variable cost curve ?
A. At their lowest points
B. When they are declining
C. When they are increasing
D. When marginal revenue is zero - Suppose a wave of investor and consumer optimisms has increased spending so that the current level of input exceeds the long-run natural rate If policy makers choose to engage in activist stabilization policy they should ?
A. decrease government spending Which the shifts the aggregate demand curve to the left
B. decrease taxes, which shifts the aggregate demand curve to the right
C. decrease taxes, which shifts the aggregate demand curve to the left
D. decrease government spending which shifts the aggregate demand curve to the right - In the long run, the Phillips curve will be vertical at the natural rate of unemployment if ?
A. the long-run aggregate demand curve is horizontal at the natural rate of inflation
B. the long run aggregate demand curve is vertical at potential GDP
C. the long run aggregate demand curve is vertical at potential GDP
D. The long run supply curve is horizontal at the natural rate of inflation - According to the Phillips curve unemployment will return to the natural rate when ?
A. Nominal wages are equal to expected wages
B. Real wages are back at equilibrium level
C. Nominal wages are growing faster than inflation
D. Inflation is higher than the growth of nominal wages - In the short run unemployment may fall below the natural rate of unemployment if ?
A. Nominal wages have risen less than inflation
B. Nominal wages have risen at the same rate as inflation
C. Nominal wages have risen more than inflation
D. Nominal wages have risen less than unemployment - Suppose two economists are arguing about policies that deal with unemployment. One economist says. The government could lower unemployment by one percentage point if it would just increase government spending by 50 billion dollars the other economist responds Nonsense and poppycock! If the government spent an additional 50 billion dollars it would reduce unemployment by only one tenth of one percent. and that effect would only be temporary! These economists ?
A. None of these answers
B. Disagree because they have different scientific judgments
C. really don’t disagree at all. It just appears that they disagree
D. disagree because they have different values - If, in the long run, people adjust their price expectations so that all prices and incomes move proportionately to an increase in the price level then the long-run Phillips curve ?
A. is vertical
B. is negatively sloped
C. has a slope that is determined by how fast people adjust their price expectations
D. is positively sloped - The Phillips curve is an extension of the model of aggregate supply and aggregate demand because, in the short run, an increase in aggregate demand increase price and ?
A. decreases unemployment
B. decrease growth
C. increases unemployment
D. decreases inflation - Along a short-run Phillips curve, ?
A. a higher rate of inflation is associated with a lower unemployment rate
B. a higher rate of growth in output is associated with a lower unemployment rate
C. a higher rate of inflation is associated with a higher unemployment rate
D. a higher rate of growth in output is associated with a higher unemployment rate.
