Answer the following questions true (T) or false (F)
1. If the CPI falls from 142 to 140 between two consecutive years, this implies that prices fell by 2% between those two years.
2. The producer price index tracks the prices firms receive for goods and services at all stages of production.
3. Nominal income is equal to real income if the CPI is less than 100.
1. FALSE
2. TRUE
3. FALSE
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A) automatic stabilization. B) crowding out. C) inside lags. D) outside lags.
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A) pay current and former athletes whose names or images had been used in NCAA-branded video games. B) split into two separate entities, one which monitors college athletics and the other which markets products. C) stop authorizing the production of NCAA-branded video games. D) allow schools to pay athletes so it could continue to use their images in the video games.
Suppose that a country increased its saving rate. In the long run it would have
a. higher productivity, and another unit of capital would increase output by more than before. b. higher productivity, but another unit of capital would increase output by less than before. c. lower productivity, and another unit of capital would increase output by more than before. d. lower productivity, but another unit of capital would increase output by less than before.
Imagine the U.S. economy is in long-run equilibrium. Then suppose the value of the U.S. dollar decreases. At the same time, people in the U.S. revise their expectations so that the expected price level rises. We would expect that in the short-run
a. real GDP will rise and the price level might rise, fall, or stay the same. b. real GDP will fall and the price level might rise, fall, or stay the same. c. the price level will rise, and real GDP might rise, fall, or stay the same. d. the price level will fall, and real GDP might rise, fall, or stay the same.