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.Management Sciences
Category: Aggregate Supply, Unemployment And Inflation
The abolition of income tax would probably ______ the number of workers in employment and _______ the equilibrium rate of unemployment?
A. increase reduce
B. increase, increase
C. reduce, increase
D. reduce, reduce
Possible causes of involuntary unemployment are ?
A. minimum wage agreements
B. trade
C. scale economies
D. insider-outsider distinctions
E. efficiency wages
F. all of the above
The classical model of macroeconomics assumes ?
A. wages and prices are sticky
B. wages and prices are flexible
C. the economy may operate below full capacity
D. the economy is always at full capacity
E. A and C
F. B and D
Potential GDP is the level of aggregate output ?
A. that can be produced if structural unemployment is zero
B. that can be produced at a zero-unemployment rate
C. that can be sustained in the long run without inflation
D. that can be sustained in the long run, if the inflation rate is zero
The Keynesian model is a good guide to ____ behavior and the classical model describes behavior in ______?
A. long run, short run
B. flexible imperfect markets
C. short-term long run
D. long run, imperfect markets
The Phillips curve shows the trade-off between _____ and _____?
A. the inflation rate, interest rates
B. the inflation rate, the unemployment rate
C. interest rates, output
D. output, employment
If input price prices adjusted very rapidly to output prices as classical economists argue the Philips curve would be ?
A. Vertical or nearly vertical
B. upward sloping
C. downward sloping
D. horizontal or nearly horizontal
The view of the Phillips curve that prevailed in the 1960s implied that policies that ?
A. lower unemployment rate will tend to lower the inflation rate
B. lower unemployment rate will tend to raise the inflation rate
C. raise inflation rate will tend to raise the unemployment rate
D. lower inflation rate will tend to raise the unemployment rate
Expansionary fiscal policy in the classical model will cause aggregate demand to _______ potential output?
A. exceeds
B. fall below
C. fluctuate around
D. remain equal to
An unspoken agreement between workers and firms that the firm will not cut wages is known as ?
A. an implicit or social contract
B. a relative-wage contract
C. employment at will
D. an explicit contract
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