"The short-run Phillips curve shows the tradeoff between real GDP and inflation." Is the previous statement correct or incorrect? Briefly explain you answer
What will be an ideal response?
The statement is incorrect. The short-run Phillips curve shows the tradeoff between the unemployment rate and the inflation rate.
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The new growth theory that arose in the late 1980s has been described as ________ because it treats technological change as ________
A) exogenous, random unpredictable shocks B) exogenous, generated by market incentives C) endogenous, random unpredictable shocks D) endogenous, generated by market incentives
When a nation's real per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP) increases, which of the following is TRUE?
A) Every individual in that nation shares in the economic gain. B) A nation must channel most of the economic gains to its poorest citizens. C) Low income people are guaranteed to lose; they never share in their nation's economic gains. D) We don't know who has most benefited from economic growth unless we look at the distribution of income.
Which of the following is most likely to be characterized by substantial asymmetric information?
a. a soft drink purchased in a vending machine b. a car wash to benefit the local high school band c. a collectible baseball card purchased on eBay d. wireless service that includes unlimited minutes and texting
Potential output is
A. the level of real GDP that exists when the economy is experiencing only frictional and cyclical unemployment. B. the level of real GDP that exists when the quantity of labor supplied is equal to the quantity of labor demanded. C. the level of real GDP that exists when the actual rate of unemployment is zero. D. the level of real GDP that exists when the economy is experiencing only cyclical and structural unemployment.