Suppose you were a forecaster of the real wage rate, employment, output, the real interest rate, consumption, investment, and the price level. A shock hits the economy, which you think is a temporary adverse supply shock
(a) What are your forecasts for each of the variables listed above (rise, fall, and no change)? (b) What if the shock was really due to people's reduced expectations about their future income. Which variables did you forecast correctly, and which did you forecast incorrectly?
(a) The real wage rate, employment, output, consumption, and investment decline, while the real interest rate and the price level rise.
(b) The IS curve shifts down and to the left, instead of the FE line shifting left, so you are wrong about every variable except consumption. The real wage, employment, and output won't change, the real interest rate and the price level will decline, and investment will rise.
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A) laissez-faire. B) partial crowding-out effect. C) the free rider problem. D) complete crowding-out effect.
The table above has real and nominal GDP for two years for a foreign country
a. What does the GDP price index equal in 2010? What does the value of the GDP price index tell you about 2010? b. What does the GDP price index equal in 2011?
Buffalo Wild Wings CEO Sally Smith decided to spend more than $200 million on restaurant renovations in an attempt to attract more lunch customers and more families
Like CEOs of other monopolistically competitive firms, Smith knew that without innovating A) her firm would become perfectly competitive. B) her firm had no chance of remaining in business. C) her firm would eventually earn an accounting profit of zero. D) her firm's profits would eventually be competed away by other firms.
Which of the following statements about monetary policy is correct?
a. Whatever happens with aggregate supply and aggregate demand in the long run, monetary policy can be used to prevent inflation from becoming entrenched in the economy in the short and medium term. b. Whatever happens with aggregate supply and aggregate demand in the short run, monetary policy can be used to prevent inflation from becoming entrenched in the economy in the medium and long term. c. Whatever happens with aggregate supply and aggregate demand in the short and medium run, monetary policy can be used to prevent inflation from becoming entrenched in the economy in the long term. d. Whatever happens with aggregate supply and aggregate demand in the medium and long run, monetary policy can be used to prevent inflation from becoming entrenched in the economy in the short term.