When the Fed sells government securities to a bank, the
A) bank's reserves increase.
B) bank's reserves decrease.
C) bank's reserves do not change.
D) securities are an asset for the bank.
E) b and d
E
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According to the natural rate hypothesis, if the economy begins at full employment with an unemployment rate of 5 percent and then the inflation rate increases from 2 percent to 4 percent, then the economy will
A) not see any lower unemployment, even temporarily, just higher inflation. B) have lower unemployment but then return to its natural rate with an inflation rate of 4 percent. C) eventually return to its natural rate of 2 percent inflation and its natural unemployment rate of 5 percent. D) eventually return to its natural rate of 2 percent inflation and a new lower unemployment rate. E) stay at the 4 percent inflation rate and the natural unemployment rate will fall.
An open-market purchase of foreign bonds to increase a central bank's international reserves:
A. increases the central bank's liabilities and decreases its assets. B. increases the central bank's liabilities and assets. C. decreases the central bank's assets and liabilities. D. increases the central bank's assets but decreases its liabilities.
Most Social Security benefits go to people who are not poor
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
According to the Rybczynski theorem, in a two-good world, with constant product prices, growth in a country's endowment of any one input results in an increase in the production of the good which does not use this input intensively.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)