Fearing that the economy was overheating, policymakers instituted a temporary tax surcharge in 1968. This temporary surtax
A) drastically reduced both savings and consumption.
B) increased savings and reduced consumption.
C) reduced savings but had little effect on consumption.
D) successfully reduced consumption sufficiently to cool down the economy.
C
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All of the following accurately describes China's currency peg EXCEPT
A) pegging against the dollar ensured that Chinese exporters faced stable prices on exports to the U.S. B) some U.S. firms complained that the peg gave Chinese firms an unfair advantage over U.S. firms. C) the Chinese currency was allowed to depreciate moderately in the years preceding the financial crisis. D) many economists argued that the Chinese currency was undervalued.
Under the assumption of rational expectations, government fiscal and monetary policy changes are effective in the short run
A) all of the time. B) only when the short-run aggregate supply curve is the same as the long-run aggregate supply curve. C) only when the policy changes leave the position of the aggregate demand curve unaffected. D) only when the policy changes are unanticipated.
Consider the labor market for computer programmers. During the late 1990s, the value of the marginal product of all computer programmers increased dramatically. Holding all else equal, the equilibrium quantity in the labor market for computer programmers
a. increased. b. decreased. c. did not change. d. It is not possible to determine the equilibrium quantity.
Imagine the U.S. economy is in long-run equilibrium. Then suppose the value of the U.S. dollar decreases. At the same time, people in the U.S. revise their expectations so that the expected price level rises. We would expect that in the short-run
a. real GDP will rise and the price level might rise, fall, or stay the same.
b. real GDP will fall and the price level might rise, fall, or stay the same.
c. the price level will rise, and real GDP might rise, fall, or stay the same.
d. the price level will fall, and real GDP might rise, fall, or stay the same.