What are the three stages of constructing the CPI?
What will be an ideal response?
The first stage is to select the CPI market basket. The market basket is determined by surveying the spending habits of consumers by conducting a Consumer Expenditure Survey. The second stage is to check the prices of about 80,000 goods and services in 30 metropolitan areas. This checking is done on a monthly basis. The third stage is to calculate the CPI itself. To calculate the CPI, a period of time is selected as the base reference period and the cost of the CPI market basket using the prices from that period is computed. Then the CPI in any other month equals 100 times the quotient of the cost of the market basket using current-period prices divided by the cost of the market basket in the reference base period.
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If there is an autonomous increase in spending (a rightward shift in the aggregate demand curve) and the Fed wishes to hold real income constant, then the Fed would:
A) decrease the money supply yielding a leftward shift in the aggregate demand curve. B) increase the money supply yielding a rightward shift in the aggregate demand curve. C) hold the money supply constant. D) none of the above.
Keynesian policy suggests that if inflationary rises in the price level are a concern, the response would be contractionary fiscal policy, using tax increases or government spending cuts to shift AD to the left. What would the result be in this scenario?
a. The result would be downward pressure on the price level, very little reduction in output but a large rise in unemployment. b. The result would be downward pressure on the price level, but very little reduction in output or very little rise in unemployment. c. The result would be downward pressure on the price level, a large reduction in output but very little rise in unemployment. d. The result would be downward pressure on the price level, but a large reduction in output and a large rise in unemployment.
Globalization has most likely occurred for which of the following reasons?
a. International agreements and treaties between countries have encouraged greater trade. b. Expanding cultural connections between people around the world. c. Expanding economics connections between people around the world. d. Increased military spending.
A government agricultural policy that restricts output by limiting the number of farm acres that can be used to produce a particular crop is the
A) marketing quota system. B) acreage allotment program. C) price support program. D) target price system. E) paying farmers not to produce system.