A. how unemployment could have persisted for so long during the Great Depression
B. The increase in the growth rate of real output in the 1950s
C. the stagflation of the 1970s
D. Why policy changes that are perceived as permanent have more of an impact on a person’s behaviour than policy changes that are viewed as temporary.
Related Mcqs:
- Macroeconomic theory that emphasized the theories of Keynes and de-emphasized the classical theory developed as the result of the failure of ?
A. economic theory to explain the simultaneous increases in inflation and unemployment during the 1970s
B. The classical model to explain the prolonged existence of high unemployment during the Great Depression
C. fine tuning during the 1960s
D. the economy to grow at a rapid rate during the 1950s - The classical trade theories of Smith and Ricardo predict that ?
A. Countries will completely specialize in the production of export goods
B. Considerable trade will occur between countries with different levels of technology
C. Small countries could obtain of the gains from trade when trading with large countries
D. All of the above - Keynesian economics became popular because it was able to explain ?
A. stagflation in the late 1970s
B. demand-pull inflation in the 1960s
C. low growth rates in the 1950s
D. The prolonged existence of high unemployment during the Great depression - Real business cycle theorists argue that _________ can explain short- and long-term fluctuation in output?
A. imperfect labor markets
B. rational expectations
C. intertertemporal decisions of households, firms and government
D. sun spot cycles - Under a pegged exchange rate system which does not explain why a country would have a balance of payments deficit ?
A. very high rates of inflation occur domestically
B. foreigners discriminate against domestic products
C. technological advance is superior abroad
D. the domestic currency is undervalued relative to other currencies - Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff explain the paradox of capital flows from poor to rich countries by ?
A. the brain drains from LDCs to DCs
B. the price role of political and credit-market risk in many LDCs
C. the law of increasing returns that implies that the marginal productivity of capital is higher in LDCs
D. the fat that the DC capital market is perfectly competitive - Which of the following help explain why firms pay bonuses to workers during particularly profitable years to prevent workers from becoming disgruntled ?
A. people are rational maximizers
B. People are reluctant to change their minds
C. People are inconsistent over time
D. People care about fairness - 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 - Refers to Exhibit 4. Suppose the economy is operating in a recession such as point B in Exhibit 4. If policy makers wished to move output to its long run natural rate they should attempt to ?
A. Shift aggregate demand to the left
B. Shift short run aggregate supply to the left
C. shift aggregate demand to the right
D. shift short-run aggregate supply to the right - It is fact that there are 24 million left-handed people in the United States however most marketers do not attempt to appeal to or design products for this group because there is little in the way of census data about this is group Therefore, this groups fails in one of the requirements for effective segmentation Which of the following is most likely to apply in this case ?
A. actionable
B. substantial
C. differentiable
D. measurable
