A. increase: increase
B. decrease; decrease
C. increase; decrease
D. decrease; increase
Related Mcqs:
- Automatic stabilizers act to ______ government expenditures and _______ government revenue during an expansionary period?
A. increase; increase
B. decrease; increase
C. increase; decrease
D. decrease; decrease - If the economy is in the expansionary phase of the business cycle, aggregate demand ____ unemployment ____ inflation ____ payments is likely to move towards ____?
A. falls; rise; falls; surplus
B. is static; low; rise; deficit;
C. falls; falls; falls; surplus
D. rise; falls; rises; deficit - Even though explicit contracts may lead to layoffs during recessions explicit contracts may still be efficient because such contracts ?
A. minimize negotiation costs
B. minimize unemployment effects
C. guarantee that only the least productive workers will be laid off.
D. will equitable spread the layoffs among junior and senior workers - Compared to what occurred under free trade, Mexico’s producer surplus ____ and consumer surplus ____ as a result of the subsidy Use the figure that you have plotted to calculate the amounts ?
A. decreases, decreases
B. decreases, increases
C. increases, decreases
D. increases, increases - An optimal tariff is one which reduces imports to the level at which ____ equals ____?
A. imports, exports
B. the balance of trade, zero
C. The demand for currency the supply of currency
D. social marginal cost, social marginal benefit - If the economy is in the recessionary phase of the business cycle, aggregate demand ___ unemployment ____ inflation ___ and the current account of the balance of payments is likely to move towards ____?
A. falls; falls; falls; surplus
B. is static; low; rises; deficit
C. falls; rises; falls; surplus
D. rises; falls; rises; deficit - The substitution effect of a rise in the price of labour will ____ the quantity of labour and the output, effect will ____ it
A. increase; increase
B. increase; reduce
C. reduce; reduce
D. reduce; increase - Antimonopoly legislation is undertaken to ____ competition and market regulation is undertaken to ____ competition ?
A. restrict; promote
B. restrict; restrict
C. promote; promote
D. promote; restrict - The long-run Phillips curve is ____ at the ____?
A. horizontal, natural rate of inflation
B. horizontal natural rate of unemployment
C. vertical natural rate of inflation
D. vertical equilibrium rate of unemployment - Which of the following is an automatic stabilizer ?
A. Spending on public schools
B. Military spending
C. All of these answers are automatic stabilizers
D. spending on the space shuttle
E. Unemployment benefits
