A. reduce inflation with little or no increase in unemployment
B. Increase inflation but would decrease unemployment by an unusually large amount
C. increase inflation with little or no decrease in unemployment
D. reduce inflation but it would increase unemployment by an unusually large amount
Related Mcqs:
- People are said to have rational expectations if they ?
A. assume that this year’s inflation rate will be the same as last year’s inflation rate
B. merely guess at the inflation rate.
C. assume that this year’s inflation rate will be equal to the average inflation rate over the past 10 years
D. Use all available information in forming their expectations. - 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 - 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 - Refer to Exhibit 6. Suppose the economy is Operating in long-run equilibrium at point E. In the long run a monetary contraction will move the economy in the direction of point ?
A. F
B. a
C. H
D. I - Refer to Exhibit 6. Suppose the economy is Operating in long-run equilibrium at point E. An unexpected monetary contraction will move the economy in the direction of point ?
A. H
B. F
C. E
D. c - Which example of market expectations causes the dollar to appreciate against the yen– expectations that the U.S economy will have ?
A. faster economic growth than Japan
B. higher future interest rates than Japan
C. more rapid money supply growth than japan
D. higher inflation rates than japan - The rational-expectation hypothesis suggests that the forecasts that people make concerning future inflation rates ?
A. consistently overestimate the actual rate of inflation in the future.
B. are always correct
C. consistently underestimate the actual rate of inflation in the future
D. are correct on average, but are subject to errors that are distributed randomly - Which of the following is not an instrument of monetary policy ?
A. Taxation
B. Bank rate
C. Open-market operations
D. Credit rationing - The chain of events that results from an expansionary monetary policy is ?
A. aggregate output increases the demand for money increase the interest rate increase planned investment
B. money supply increases the interest rate decrease planned investment increases aggregate output increases and money demand increase
C. money supply increases the interest rate increase planned investment increases aggregate output increases and money demand increases
D. money demand increases the interest rate decreases planned investment increases aggregate output increases and money demand increases - An example of an expansionary monetary policy is ?
A. a reduction in the taxes banks pay on their profits.
B. an increase in the required reserve ratio
C. an increase in the discount rate
D. the Central bank buying government securities in the open market
