A. The balance of trade
B. The rate of growth in an economy
C. The rate of price increase
D. Unemployment
Related Mcqs:
- The Phillips curve shows the trade-off between _____ and _____?
A. the inflation rate, interest rates
B. the inflation rate, the unemployment rate
C. interest rates, output
D. output, employment - The Phillips curve is a graph showing the relationship between ?
A. the price level and the unemployment rate
B. the inflation rate and the unemployment rate
C. the level of aggregate output and the price level
D. the inflation rate and the level of aggregate demand - The Phillips curve shows that ?
A. the business cycle has been eliminated
B. an increase in inflation temporarily increases unemployment.
C. inflation and unemployment are unrelated in the short run.
D. a decrease in inflation temporarily increases unemployment.
E. none of these - 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 - The Phillips curve is an extension of the model of aggregate supply and aggregate demand because, in the short run, an increase in aggregate demand increase price and ?
A. decreases unemployment
B. decrease growth
C. increases unemployment
D. decreases inflation - 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 - 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 - Which of the following would shift the long-run Phillips curve to the right ?
A. An increase in the minimum wage
B. An increase in the expected inflation
C. An increase in the price of foreign oil
D. An increase in the aggregate demand - The view of the Phillips curve that prevailed in the 1960s implied that policies that ?
A. lower unemployment rate will tend to lower the inflation rate
B. lower unemployment rate will tend to raise the inflation rate
C. raise inflation rate will tend to raise the unemployment rate
D. lower inflation rate will tend to raise the unemployment rate - In the long run, the Phillips curve will be vertical at the natural rate of unemployment if ?
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
