International reserves are
A) assets denominated in a foreign currency and used in international transactions.
B) reserves the Fed requires banks to hold against Eurodollar deposits.
C) reserves the International Monetary Fund requires banks to hold if they wish to participate in the market for foreign exchange.
D) central bank holdings of gold.
A
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Refer to Figure 24-1. Ceteris paribus, a decrease in government spending would be represented by a movement from
A) AD1 to AD2. B) AD2 to AD1. C) point A to point B. D) point B to point A.
Economic growth means:
A. more production of goods and services. B. people maintain their standard of living. C. all of a nation’s citizens must be better-educated. D. in general tax revenues are lower.
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. A budget surplus occurs if the amount of government spending is greater than the amount of tax revenues during a fiscal year. 2. The term "full employment" means that the unemployment rate is equal to zero. 3. Contractionary policies stimulate the economy to grow. 4. If the European economy is booming and US exports increase, aggregate demand (AD) increases. 5. Efficiency wages, a Keynesian theory of unemployment, posits that wages higher than the equilibrium wage are a cause of unemployment.
International trade policies are largely advocated, argued, and lobbied for based more on their distributional effects than on their aggregate or overall effects. What does this imply?
A) Producers will lobby for protectionism even though they may know that their gains from protectionism will be outweighed by the losses to consumers. B) Consumers care more about how policies affect them than how policies affect them and everyone else, too. C) Tariffs are more effective than quotas. D) Consumers' surplus will rise (when it rises) more than producers' surplus will fall (when it falls). E) none of the above