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
Related Mcqs:
- 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Unemployment benefits may increase the unemployment rate because unemployment benefits ?
A. encourage people to quit their jobs
B. reduce the cost of job search
C. enable people to quit searching for work
D. reduce the benefits of additional job searching - 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 - 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 - The Short run Phillips curve can shift in response to changes in ?
A. Inflationary expectations
B. unemployment
C. the inflation rates
D. wage rates - 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.
