ECN 203 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Potential Output, Output Gap, Autonomous Consumption

GDP can increase at a faster rate than real GDP:

According to neuroeconomics,

Select one:

a. logical decisions take place in the limbic system or amygdale, and emotional decisions take place in the prefrontal cortex.

b. both logical decisions and emotional decisions take place in the limbic system or amygdala.

c. both logical decisions and emotional decisions take place in the prefrontal cortex.

d. logical decisions take place in the prefrontal cortex, and emotional decisions take place in the limbic system or amygdala.

e. None of the above.

In comparing perfect competition and monopoly, which of the following is true?

Select one:

a. Monopolies automatically earn profits; perfectly competitive firms do not.

b. In perfect competition, profits will disappear in the long run as new firms enter the market; in a monopoly, profits may exist in the long run.

c. In the short run, both monopoly and perfect competition attempt to minimize total costs.

d. In the long run, both monopoly and perfect competition produce at the minimum of the average-total-cost curve.

e. Neither monopoly nor perfect competition can sustain positive economic profits in the long run

The quantity supplied is

Select one:

a. the amount sellers are willing and able to offer at a given price, during a particular time period, everything else held constant.

b. the amount sellers are willing and able to offer for sale at all possible prices.

c. a set of price and quantity-supplied combinations, everything else held constant.

d. a list of prices and the corresponding quantities supplied.

e. a downward-sloping line that relates expenditures to different levels of output.

Efficiency implies that goods and services are allocated

Select one:

a. to those with the ability to pay.

b. to those with the greatest need for the good or service.

c. equally throughout society.

d. in the most cost-effective manner.

e. by government in such a way that the marginal social benefit equals the marginal social cost for each good and service.

Assume a reserve requirement of 25 percent. If a bank has zero excess reserves and $100,000 in total cash reserves, then its deposits must equal

Select one:

a. $100,000.

b. $250,000.

c. $400,000.

d. $25,000.

e. $750,000.

When economists describe the process of consumer choice, they

Select one:

a. portray people as simple, methodical, and robot-like consumers who always behave in perfectly predictable ways.

b. are asserting the simple fact that consumers do have to decide which goods and services to purchase with their limited incomes and people do select the options that give them the greatest utility.

c. point out that consumers rarely consider utility in their purchase decisions.

d. are asserting that price is the only variable consumers consider in making their purchasing decisions.

e. admit that there is no credible economic theory to explain the phenomenon.

Unemployment will decrease if

Select one:

a. actual GDP increases faster than potential GDP.

b. actual GDP increases at the same rate as potential GDP.

c. the GDP gap widens.

d. actual GDP increases less than potential GDP.

e. actual GDP decreases and potential GDP remains the same.

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1. Which of the following suggest that real per capita GDP is not a perfect measure of economy well-being?
a. population varies acro​ss countries
b. GDP doesn't measure the value-added during home production
c. GDP doesn't take into account income distribution
d. GDP understimates the values of goods and services produced in the economy because of inflation
e. GDP inacurrately measures the values of goods and services produced by the government
2. Suppose that y(t) describes how a variable y varies over time. Then the growth rate of the variable from year t to year t+1 is (approximately) equal to ( select all correct answers)
a. y(t+1) - y(t)
b. y(t+1) / y(t)-1
c. ln(y(t+1) / y(t)-1)
d. ln(y(t+1) / ln(y(t))
3. suppose the economy exhibits three consecutive quarters of negative real per capita growth. Would the policymakers say that the economy is in recession?
a. yes
b. no
4. when do we say that the economy is in a recession (select all the correct answers)
a. when the economy in in distress
b. when GDP is below its trend
c. when real per capita GDP is below its trend
d. when the economy exhibits two consecutive quarters of negative real per capita GDP growth
e. when unemployment is unusually high.