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Category: The Phillips Curve
A decrease the Price of foreign oil ?
A. Shifts the short-run Phillips curve downward and make the unemployment inflation trade-off less favorable
B. Shifts the short run Phillips curve upward and makes the unemployment inflation trade-off more favorable
C. Shifts the short run Phillips curve upward and makes the Unemployment inflation trade off more favorable
D. Shifts the short run Phillips curve downward and makes the unemployment inflation trade off more favorable
An increase in expected inflation ?
A. shifts the short run Phillips curve downward and the unemployment inflation trade-off is less favorable.
B. shifts the short-run Phillips curve upward and the unemployment inflation trade-off is more favorable
C. Shift the short-run Phillips curve downward and the unemployment inflation trade-off is more favorable
D. Shifts the Short run Phillips curve upward and the unemployment inflation trade-off is less favorable
If a country’s policy makers were to continuously use expansionary monetary policy in an attempt to hold unemployment below the natural rate the long-run result would be ?
A. an increase in the level of output
B. a decrease in the unemployment rate
C. an increase in the rate of inflation
D. All of these answers
Refer to Exhibit 6. Suppose the economy is operating at point (D) As people revise their price expectations ?
A. The short-run Phillips curve will shift in the direction of the short-run Phillips curve associated with an expectation of 3 percent inflation
B. The short-run Phillips curve will shift in the direction of the short-run Phillips curve associated with an expectation of 9 per cent inflation
C. The short-run Phillips curve will shift in the direction of the short-run Phillips curve associated with an expectation of 6 percent inflation
D. The long-run Phillips curve will shift to the left
The natural rate hypothesis argues that ?
A. in the long run the unemployment rate returns to the natural rate, regardless of inflation
B. Unemployment is always below the natural rate
C. Unemployment is always above the natural rate
D. Unemployment is always equal to the natural rate
Which of the following would shift the long-run Phillips curve to the right ?
A. An increase in the minimum wage
B. An increase in the expected inflation
C. An increase in the price of foreign oil
D. An increase in the aggregate demand
According to the Phillips curve, in the short run, if policy makers choose an expansionary policy to lower the rate of unemployment ?
A. The economy will experience an increase in inflation
B. The economy will experience a decrease in inflation
C. Inflation will be unaffected if price expectations are unchanging
D. None of these answers
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