A. Higher interest rates
B. Higher income tax
C. Tariffs
D. Reduced government spending
Related Mcqs:
- When the world Bank or IMF requires improved external balance in the short run the agency may condition its loan on expenditure switching that is ?
A. switching spending from domestic to foreign sources
B. devaluing local currencies
C. increase trade restrictions by imposing quota
D. increase government spending - 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 - According to the Phillips curve, in the short run, if policy makers choose an expansionary policy to lower the rate of unemployment ?
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 - 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 early eighties, the Federal Reserve pursed a tight monetary policy. All else being equal. the impact of that policy was to interest rates in the United States relative to those in Europe and cause the dollar to _______ against European currencies?
A. decrease; depreciate
B. decrease; appreciate
C. increase; depreciate
D. increase; appreciate - One of the transmission mechanisms of monetary policy is through consumer demand when interest rates ________ household wealth ________ and consumption _________?
A. rise; increase, increase
B. rise, falls, increase
C. rise, increase, falls
D. rise, falls, falls - Expansionary fiscal policy in the classical model will cause aggregate demand to _______ potential output?
A. exceeds
B. fall below
C. fluctuate around
D. remain equal to - An increase in consumer income will increase demand for a _________ but decrease demand for a?
A. substitute good, inferior good
B. normal good inferior good
C. inferior good normal good
D. normal good, complementary good - The kinked demand curve model of oligopoly assumes the elasticity of demand ?
A. in response to a price increase is less elastic than the elasticity of demand in response to a price decrease
B. is perfectly elastic if price increases and perfectly inelastic if price decreases
C. is constant regardless of whether price increase of decrease.
D. in response to a price increases is more elastic than the elasticity of demand in response to a price decrease - Aggregate demand is the total demand for all goods and services in an economy from ?
A. the household and government sectors
B. the household sector.
C. all sectors of except the rest of the world
D. all sectors of the economy including the rest of the world.
