ECO 105 Week 6 Quiz

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Week 6 Quiz

 Question 1

An attempt to use government spending to boost the economy may bring:

 

o   inflation.

o   deflation.

o   anarchy.

o   fiscal instability.

 

 

Question 2

An element of trust is built into money, because:

 

o   the government maintains a monopoly over the money supply, and people tend to trust monopolies.

o   one must expect that it will still have value when the holder of money wants to spend it in the future.

o   people must trust that the government can always print more of it if necessary.

o   people must trust the Federal Reserve to prevent banks from failing.

 

 

Question 3

An increase in the GDP from a $1 cut in taxes is called:

 

o   the GSE (government spending effect).

o   the tax multiplier.

o   the fiscal multiplier.

o   the base multiplier.

 

 

 

 

Question 4

If tax cuts are stimulative, tax increases are:

 

o   contractionary.

o   reactionary.

o   inflationary.

o   deflationary.

  

Question 5

If the Federal Reserve lowers the federal funds rate:

 

o   the quantity of funds borrowed and lent will decrease.

o   other interest rates, such as home mortgage rates, will rise to compensate.

o   inflation is more likely to appear.

o   long-term interest rates will react more than short-term rates.

 

Question 6

If the Federal Reserve raises the federal funds rate, which one of the following will not tend to result?

 

o   The money supply will fall.

o   Car loan and home mortgage rates will rise.

o   Businesses will find it easier to obtain funds to expand.

o   Inflation will decline.

 

Question 7

If the Federal Reserve raises the federal funds rate, which one of the following will tend to result?

 

o   The inflation rate will increase.

o   The demand curve for goods and services bought with a credit card will shift to the left.

o   The demand curve for cars will shift to the right.

o   Home mortgage rates will decline.

 

Question 8

In 1955, the marginal tax rate for a married couple with a taxable income of $400,000 was:

o   35%.

o   30%.

o   85%.

o   91%.

 

 

Question 9

In the short term, an increase in government spending:

 

o   lowers taxes and wages.

o   raises prices and wages.

o   raises taxes, but lowers wages.

o   raises wages and lowers inflation.

 

Question 10

Inflation targeting is a policy in which the Fed:

 

o   announces an inflation target and then runs monetary policy to hit that target.

o   tries to reduce inflation by setting a low federal funds rate target.

o   tries to reduce inflation by setting a high federal funds rate target.

o   uses open market operations as a method of discretionary intervention, increasing the money supply when there is a recession, and decreasing it when there is an unsustainable economic expansion.

 

 

 

Question 11

Members of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve are:

 

o   appointed by the outgoing chairman of the Board of Governors, and confirmed by Congress.

o   appointed by the President of the United States.

o   elected by the stockholders of the eight largest banks in the United States.

o   appointed by the Treasury Secretary.

 

 

Question 12

Money enables us to make comparisons of value among multiple goods and services. This is the ________ purpose of money.

 

o   medium of exchange

o   store of value

o   standard of value

o   inflationary

 

Question 13

One of the advantages of monetary policy over fiscal policy is that:

 

o   monetary policy must be approved by Congress, which prevents bad monetary policy from taking effect.

o   monetary policy does not produce inflation, while fiscal policy does.

o   the Fed can react more quickly than a legislature can.

o   monetary policy allows the Fed to limit government spending, so that government budget deficits are reduced.

 

Question 14

People who have bought a house using an adjustable rate mortgage are most likely to be hurt by:

 

o   an increase in the inflation rate.

o   an increase in the amount of the Fed's discount lending.

o   a decrease in the reserve requirement.

o   an increase in the federal funds rate.

 

 

 

Question 15

Supply-side economics argues that changes in ________ affect(s) incentives to work.

 

o   marginal tax rates

o   marginal income

o   marginal profit

o   marginal balance

 

Question 16

Tax cuts tend to boost:

 

o   disposable income.

o   tax revenues.

o   inflation.

o   interest rates.

 

 

Question 17

The Federal Reserve's response to the 2001 recession was:

 

o   to cut the federal funds rate over a three-year period.

o   to lower the reserve requirement.

o   to raise the margin requirement and lower the reserve requirement.

o   to lower the money supply by 7% in order to reduce over-inflated stock prices.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Question 18

The _________ of the United States is responsible for implementing fiscal policy.

 

o   Treasurer

o   Secretary of the Interior

o   Secretary of State

o   Vice President

 

 

Question 19

The current chairman of the Federal Reserve Board is:

 

o   Alan Greenspan.

o   Paul Volcker.

o   Ben Bernanke.

o   Morgan Stanley.

 

 

Question 20

The effect of crowding out over the long run is:

 

o   bad, because businesses have less access to capital.

o   good, because it ensures strong businesses.

o   bad, because it is deflationary in nature.

o   good, because it tends to reduce taxes.

 

 

 

Question 21

The time between recognizing a recession and before spending occurs is called:

 

o   retro tax.

o   fiscal drag.

o   leverage effect

o   lag.

 

Question 22

The transfer of domestic economic stimulus to foreign markets is known as:

 

o   economic overage.

o   net export leakage

o   overseas leakage.

o   fiscal offset.

 

 

Question 23

The wealthy have a(n) ___________ marginal propensity to consume.

 

o   lower

o   higher

o   elastic

o   inelastic

 

 

Question 24

When higher taxes discourage whatever activity is being taxed, that is called:

o   tax discouragement.

o   tax abatement.

o   negative-positive effect.

o   the negative incentive effects.

 

 

 

Question 25

When production is outsourced, a domestic fiscal stimulus could lead to:

 

o   decreased imports.

o   increased imports.

o   a net loss.

o   a net gain.

 

Question 26

Which of the following is a tool of the Federal Reserve System?

 

o   Buying or selling stocks of publicly traded corporations in order to stabilize the stock market

o   Buying or selling government bonds in order to stimulate the economy during recessions and prevent inflation.

o   You Answered

o   Reducing the burden of household debt by capping credit card and other loan interest rates to reasonable levels.

o   Encouraging employment by lending money at a low ("discount") rate to firms that are in danger of having to make layoffs.

 

Question 27

Which of the following statements about monetary policy is true?

 

o   Unlike fiscal policy, there is no delay between the Fed's enacting a policy and the policy's effects.

o   The Fed's policies tend to take effect more quickly and with less political influence than fiscal policy.

o   Monetary policy has an equal impact on short-term and long-term interest rates.

o   The Fed controls most interest rates directly, by telling banks and other financial institutions what interest rate they must charge for common loans.

 

 

 

 

Question 28

Which of the following would have the effect of increasing the money supply?

 

o   Raising the reserve requirement

o   Raising the discount rate

o   Lowering the federal funds rate

o   Selling some of the Fed's U.S. Treasury securities

 

Question 29

Which of the following would shift the demand curve for cars to the right?

 

o   An increase in the federal funds rate

o   An increase in discount lending by the Fed to banks

o   An increase in home mortgage interest rates

o   An increase in the unemployment rate over the NAIRU

 

 

Question 30

__________ originally proposed the use of government spending to stimulate the economy in the 1930s, during the Great Depression.

 

o   John Maynard Keynes

o   Franklin Delano Roosevelt

o   Albert Einstein

o   Charles H. Chaplin