1 |
The nominal interest rate minus the inflation rate is the |
Depreciation rate
Discount rate
Forward rate
Real interest rate
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2 |
A disadvantage of chain weighting is that |
Past inflation rates change whenever the base year changes.
Past growth rates of real GDP change whenever the base year changes.
It causes output growth to slow
The components of real GDP don't sum to real GDP
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3 |
The value of real GDP in the current year equals. |
The value of current year output in prices of the base year
The value of current year output in pries of the current year
The value of base year output in prices of the base year
The value of base year output in prices of the current year
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4 |
The government budget surplus equals |
Government purchases plus transfers
Net government receipts minus government purchases
Government purchases minus net receipts
Government purchases minus transfers.
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5 |
The value of a household's assets minus the value of its liabilities is called. |
Income
Debt
Stock
Wealth
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6 |
Net National product equals. |
Gross national product minus indirect business taxes
Gross national product minus depreciation
National income minus indirect business taxes
National income pluses depreciation
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7 |
In the expenditure approach to GDP which of the following would be excluded from measurement of GDP. |
Government payments for goods produced by foreign firms
Government payments for goods produced by firms owned by state of local governemnt
Government payments for welfare
All government payments are included in GDP
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8 |
Which of the following is not a category of consumption spending in the national income accounts. |
Consumer durables
Non durable goods
Services
Housing Purchases
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9 |
GDP difference between GNP because. |
GDP = GNP - net factor payments from abroad
GNP = GDP -net factor payments from abroad
GDP = GNP -capital consumption allowances
GNP = GDP -capital consumption allowances.
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10 |
Capital goods are |
A type of intermediate good
Final goods, because they are not used up during a given year
Produced in the same year as the related final good whereas intermediate goods are produced in different years.
Produced in one year whereas final goods are produced over a period of more than one year
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11 |
The measured of GDP includes |
Non market goods such as home making and child rearing
The benefits of clean air and water
Estimated values of activity in the underground economy
Purchases and sales of goods produced in previous periods
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12 |
To ensure that the fundamental identity of national income accounting holds changes in inventories are. |
Ignored
Counted as consumption
Treated as part of saving
Treated as part of expenditure
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13 |
The value of a producer's output minus the value of the inputs if purchases from other producers is called the producer's |
Surplus
Profit
Gross product
Value added
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14 |
While resources and products flow in one direction of the circular flow model what flow the other direction. |
Services
Public goods
Money
Imported goods
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15 |
In the product market of the circular flow model. |
Firms buy finished products from households.
Consumers buy factors of production from firms
Firms Sell factors of production to the government
Consumers buy finished products from firms
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16 |
What did economist Adam Smith identity as the "invisible hand" that directs the decision making of firms and households in a market economy. |
Government
Product demand
Self interest
International trade
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17 |
In a mixed economy the economic decisions of what to produce how to produce, and who will receive products are made by |
The government
Consumers and firms
Banks and stock markets
Firms, consumers, and government.
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18 |
In market economics the incentive that draws entrepreneurs into industry is. |
Government bonuses for meeting production quotas
Profit
Government assumption of the risk of failure
Government assistance with making output and pricing decisions
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19 |
Economic planning by enteral government agencies is primarily associated with |
command economies
Market economies
Laissez faire economies
Market faire economies
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