What effect might a fall in stock prices have on busi-ness investment?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The lower price for a firm's shares means that it can raise a smaller amount of funds, and so investment in plant and equipment will fall.
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If the price level falls by 5 percent and workers' money wage rates remain constant, firms'
A) quantity of labor demanded will decrease. B) quantity of labor demanded will increase. C) supply of jobs will increase. D) None of the above answers are correct.
The Fed's monetary policy tools
A) have proven to be of little value in helping the Fed to achieve its monetary policy goals. B) have allowed the Fed to achieve its monetary policy goals directly. C) have allowed the Fed to achieve its monetary policy goals indirectly. D) are no longer as effective in achieving its monetary policy goals, due to restrictive legislation passed by Congress in the 1990s.
If the Fed engages in open market sales in direct response to an increase in the rate of inflation, this is known as
A) direct policy making. B) active policy making. C) passive policy making. D) fiscal policy making.
The following equations represent a simultaneous equations model:
K1= 
1K2+ 
1z1 + u1
K2= 2K1+ 2z2 + u2
OLS will suffer from simultaneity bias if:
A. u1 is correlated with z1.
B. z1 is correlated with z2.
C. K2 is correlated with u1.
D. K1 is correlated with u1.