Short-run macroeconomic policies concentrate on:
A) minimizing fluctuations around potential GDP.
B) maximizing fluctuations around potential GDP.
C) incentives for increasing productivity and the potential output of the economy.
D) none of the above.
A
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On the foreign exchange market, an increase in a country's exchange rate
A) decreases the demand for its currency and shifts the demand curve rightward. B) increases the quantity demanded of its currency and leads to a movement up along the demand curve. C) decreases the quantity demanded of its currency and leads to a movement up along the demand curve. D) decreases the demand for its currency and shifts the demand curve leftward. E) increases the quantity demanded of its currency and leads to a movement down along the demand curve.
Refer to Figure 28-9. A follower of the new classical macroeconomics would argue that a contractionary monetary policy to lower inflation after a supply shock, like that pursued by Volcker in 1979, would result in a movement from
A) C to D to A. B) A to B. C) C to A. D) A to C. E) A to D to C.
As of 2010, the FDIC insured deposit accounts up to which of the following amounts?
A) $10,000. B) $25,000. C) $100,000. D) $250,000.
A period of sustained decline in output in an economy is known as a(n) _____
a. expansion b. stagnation c. peak d. trough e. contraction