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Category: Fiscal And Monetary Policy
The budget deficit tends to decrease then ?
A. GDP decrease rapidly
B. GDP remains unchanged
C. GDP decrease slightly
D. GDP increase
Time lags which often erode effectiveness of monetary and fiscal policy measures represent ?
A. delays in the response of the economy is stabilization policy
B. the foreign response to price changes
C. the change in exports and imports prices
D. the change in exchange rates
A reflationary (expansionist) fiscal policy could include ?
A. Lower interest rates
B. Increased lending by the banks
C. An increase in corporation tax
D. An increase in discretionary government spending
As an economy grows ?
A. The government’s budget position should automatically improve
B. The government’s budget position should automatically worsen
C. This will have no effect on the government’s budget position
D. This will reduce the government’s tax revenue
Net taxes are ?
A. taxes paid by firms and households to the government minus the cost of collecting the taxes
B. Taxes paid firms and households to the government minus the transfer payments made to firms and household
C. Taxes paid by firms and households to the government plus transfer payments made to firm and households
D. government expenditures minus government revenues
A government might use tax to ?
A. Discourage consumption of positive externalities
B. Discourage consumption of public goods
C. Discourage consumption of merit goods
D. Discourage consumption of negative externalities
By controlling the monetary base economists mean ?
A. making banks keep a certain % of their assets as M0
B. controlling the money multiplier
C. restricting the amount of cash in circulation
D. not allowing commercial banks to issue notes and coins
The negative effect on the economy that occurs when average tax rates increase because taxpayers have moved into higher income brackets during an expansion is ?
A. debt burden
B. the Laffer curves
C. bracket creep
D. fiscal drag
If the State Bank of Pakistan wished to pursue a tight monetary policy it would ?
A. reduce the minimum reserve asset ratio.
B. buy government securities on the open market
C. lower interest rates
D. sell government securities on the open market
By financial crowding out economist mean ?
A. credit rationing
B. government borrowing drives up interest rates
C. Bank of England controls on commercial bank lending
D. what the government borrows cannot be used for private investment
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