An open market sale
A) decreases the price of Treasury securities and also decreases their yield.
B) increases the price of Treasury securities and decreases their yield.
C) increases the price of Treasury securities and also increases their yield.
D) decreases the price of Treasury securities and increases their yield.
D
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The fact that output gaps will not last indefinitely, but will be closed by rising or falling inflation is the economy's:
A. income-expenditure multiplier. B. self-correcting property. C. short-run equilibrium property. D. long-run equilibrium property.
In the "non-market-clearing model" the level of final goods sales and unemployment during a recession are
A) the result of interactions between supply and demand. B) higher than would be the case in a market clearing model. C) caused by the rapid adjustment of prices and wages. D) the result of wage and price rigidities.
If demand and supply both increase
A) the equilibrium quantity definitely will increase and market clearing price definitely will decrease. B) the equilibrium quantity definitely will increase and market clearing price definitely will increase. C) the equilibrium quantity definitely will increase but the change in market clearing price cannot be determined without more information. D) market clearing price definitely will increase but the change in the equilibrium quantity cannot be determined without further information.
If the quality of items improves over time, the CPI ________ inflation
a. overstates b. understates c. equals d. approximates