A. Many economists prefer automatic stabilizers because they affect the economy with a shorter lag than activist stabilization policy
B. None of these answers are true
C. Long lags enhance the ability of policy makers to fine tune the economy
D. When policy makers implement activist stabilization policies there is a significant risk that their policies may actually have a destabilizing effect
Related Mcqs:
- Suppose a wave of investor and consumer optimisms has increased spending so that the current level of input exceeds the long-run natural rate If policy makers choose to engage in activist stabilization policy they should ?
A. decrease government spending Which the shifts the aggregate demand curve to the left
B. decrease taxes, which shifts the aggregate demand curve to the right
C. decrease taxes, which shifts the aggregate demand curve to the left
D. decrease government spending which shifts the aggregate demand curve to the right - Suppose a wave of investor and consumer pessimism in the USA causes a reduction in spending If the US federal Reserve (Which has a broader remit than the Bank of England Which is charged only with controlling inflation) chooses to engage in activist stabilization policy it should ?
A. Increase government spending and decrease taxes
B. decrease the money supply
C. decrease government spending and increase taxes
D. decrease interest rates - The response lag of stabilization policy represents ?
A. the time that it takes for policy makers to recognize the existence of boom of bust
B. the time needed for parliament to agree to a tax cut.
C. the time that is necessary to put the desired policy into effect
D. the time that it takes for the economy to adjust to the new conditions after a new policy has been implemented - Which of the following statements about trade policy is true ?
A. A country’s trade policy has no impact on the size of its trade balance
B. None of these answers
C. A restrictive import quota decreases a country’s net exports
D. A restrictive imports quota increases a country’s net exports - 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 - 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 - 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 - Which of the following statements is true about a market economy ?
A. With a large enough computer, central planners could guide production more efficiently than markets.
B. Market participants act as if guided by an invisible hand to produce outcomes that maximize social welfare
C. The strength of a market system is that it tends to distribute resources evenly across consumers.
D. Taxes help prices communicate costs and benefits to producers and consumers. - Which of the following statements about money is not true ?
A. A debit card is not really money because it is only a means of transferring money between accounts
B. All the wealth that people hold, in whatever form, should be considered as money
C. Wealth held in the current account you hold with your bank is almost as convenient for buying things as wealth held in your wallet so the wealth in current accounts should be included in measures of money
D. In a complex economy it is not easy to draw a clear dividing line between assets that should be considered as money and those that should not - Suppose each of 20 neighbours on street values street repairs at €3000 the cost of the street repair is €40,000 which of the following statements is true ?
A. it is efficient for the government to tax the resident €2,000 each and repair the road
B. It is efficient for each neighbour to pay €3,000 to repair the section of street in front of his/her home
C. None of these answers are true
D. it is not efficient to have the street repaired
