MGEA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Vacuum Cleaner, Diminishing Returns, Absolute Advantage

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11 Nov 2017

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Economics for Management Studies

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MGEA02H3

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Jack Parkinson

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If an economy's GDP falls, then it must be the case that the economy's

A. Income and saving fall

B. Income and market value of all products both fall.

C. Income falls and the market value of all production rises.

d.Income rises and the market value of all production falls.

2. Gross Domestic product measures

a. Income and expenditure.

B. Income

c. Expenditure.

d. Neither.

3. If all quantities produced in the united states rise by 13.4% and all prices fall by 13.4% which of the following occurs?

Does Real GDP rise or fall? Does the nominal GDP rise or fall?

4. Which of the following does not add to US GDP?

a. The federal gov. Sends a social security check to your grandmother.

b. CIty of new york pays a salary to policemen.

c. Air France buys a plane from Boeing, the US aircraft manufacturer.

5. IS the best single measure of a society's economic well-being the unemployment rate or the GDP?

6. Keynesian economics was developed by John Keynes in response to:

A. The great recession.

b. The great depression.

C. Out of control gov. spending.

17. For an economy as a whole,

a. Wages must equal profit.

b. consumption must equal income.

c. Income must equal expenditure.

d. Consumption must equal saving.

8. As in the case f Ireland, Keynesian economics does not tend to work in countries that:

a. Are large and self-sustaining.

b. Are small and insulated.

c. Are medium-sized with good governments.

d. Are smaller and are open to free (ish) trade.

e. Are large and have free trade.

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1. In the actual economy, households

a. spend all of their income.

b. divide their income among spending, taxes, and saving.

c. buy all goods and services produced in the economy.

d. Both (a) and (c) are correct.

2. Gross domestic product is defined as

a. the quantity of all final goods and services demanded within a country in a given period of time.

b. the quantity of all final goods and services supplied within a country in a given period of time.

c. the market value of all final goods and services produced within a country in a given period of time.

d. Both (a) and (b) are correct.

3. GDP adds together many different kinds of products into a single measure of the value of economic activity by using prices determined by

a. banks.

b. economists.

c. the government.

d. markets.

4. Over time, people have come to rely more on market-produced goods and less on goods that they produce for themselves. For example, busy people with high incomes, rather than cleaning their own houses, hire people to clean their houses. By itself, this change has

a. caused measured GDP to fall.

b. not caused any change in measured GDP.

c. caused measured GDP to rise.

d. probably changed measured GDP, but in an uncertain direction; the direction of the change depends on the difference in the quality of the cleaning that has resulted.

5. A steel company sells some steel to a bicycle company for $150. The bicycle company uses steel to produce a bicycle, which it sells for $250. Taken together, these two transactions contribute

a. $150 to GDP.

b. $250 to GDP.

c. between $250 and $400 to GDP, depending on the profit earned by the bicycle company when it sold the bicycle.

d. $400 to GDP.

6. The total sales of all firms in the economy for a year

a. equals GDP for the year.

b. is larger than GDP for the year.

c. is smaller than GDP for the year.

d. Any of the above is possible.

7. GDP is equal to

a. the market value of all final goods and services produced within a country in a given period of time.

b. Y.

c. C + I + G + NX.

d. All of the above are correct.

8. The consumption component of GDP includes spending on

a. durable goods and nondurable goods, but not spending on services.

b. durable goods and services, but not spending on nondurable goods.

c. nondurable goods and services, but not spending on durable goods.

d. durable goods, nondurable goods, and services.

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Question 1 Gross domestic product (GDP) measures the economy's production of

A) final goods and services.

B) intermediate goods.

C) consumer goods and services.

D) capital goods.

Question 2 Because GDP is measured in dollars per year, GDP is called a

A) stock.

B) flow.

C) cycle.

D) chain.

Question 3 Which of the following would not be included in the gross private domestic investment (I) category of GDP?

A) A retailer's additions to its inventories.

B) A bakery's purchase of a new oven.

C) A trader's purchase on NASDAQ stocks.

D) Newly built residential construction.

Question 4 Which of the following government payments would be included in the government consumption expenditures and gross investment (G) category of GDP?

A) A firefighter's monthly paycheck.

B) A retired grandmother's Social Security check.

C) A retired colonel's veteran's benefits.

D) A laid-off auto worker's unemployment conpensation check.

Question 5 The largest component in the income approach to measuring GDP is

A) compensation of employees.

B) rents.

C) profits.

D) net interest.

Question 6 Which approach to calculating GDP attempts to measure employee compensation, rents, profits, and net interest?

A) The circular-flow approach.

B) The product-market approach.

C) The income approach.

D) The expenditure approach.

Question 7 In recent years, people have benefited from greater amounts of leisure time. This trend

A) has caused GDP to rise.

B) has caused GDP to fall.

C) made GDP fluctuate randomly.

D) is not accounted for in the GDP statistic.

Question 8 National income (NI) is calculated by adjusting GDP for

A) depreciation of capital.

B) investment and net exports.

C) Social Security insurance contributions and transfer payments.

D) corporate and personal income taxes.

Question 9 If an economy's real GDP has increased, we can conclude that the economy

A) is inflationary.

B) has increased its production.

C) suffers from recession.

D) needs a tax cut.

Question 10 In the circular flow model, investment, government spending, and exports are classified as

A) injections.

B) leakages.

C) transfers.

D) consumption expenditures.

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