Which of the following statements is true?
a. The doctrine of laissez-faire advocates an economic system with extensive government intervention and little individual decision-making.
b. Adam Smith was the father of socialism.
c. In capitalism income is distributed on the basis of need.
d. Most real-world economies are mixed economic systems.
d
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If firms in an industry differentiated their products and made economic profits in the short-run, what other characteristic would be important to determine if this is an oligopoly or a monopolistically competitive market?
A) the number of firms in the market B) the number of close substitutes for the good being produced C) the number of buyers in the market D) if the good being sold is a normal or inferior good
Assume that foreign capital flows into a nation rise due to expected increases in stock market appreciation. If the nation has highly mobile international capital markets and a fixed exchange rate system, what happens to the real GDP and net nonreserve international borrowing/lending balance in the context of the Three-Sector-Model? a. Real GDP rises and net nonreserve international
borrowing/lending balance becomes more positive (or less negative). b. Real GDP rises and net nonreserve international borrowing/lending balance becomes more negative (or less positive). c. Real GDP falls and net nonreserve international borrowing/lending balance becomes more positive (or less negative). d. Real GDP and net nonreserve international borrowing/lending balance remain the same. e. There is not enough information to determine what happens to these two macroeconomic variables.
"Monetary policy can be described either in terms of the money supply or in terms of the interest rate.". This statement amounts to the assertion that
a. rightward shifts of the money-supply curve cannot occur if the Federal Reserve decides to target an interest rate. b. the activities of the Federal Reserve's bond traders are irrelevant if the Federal Reserve decides to target an interest rate. c. changes in monetary policy aimed at expanding aggregate demand can be described either as increasing the money supply or as increasing the interest rate. d. our analysis of monetary policy is not fundamentally altered if the Federal Reserve decides to target an interest rate.
We know how many dollars banks create using the:
A. money multiplier. B. federal funds. C. interest rate. D. demand deposits.