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This section includes 20 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Economics Mcqs knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
1. |
According of Keynes, the level of employment is determined by ? |
A. | the behaviour of trade unions. |
B. | the quantity of money |
C. | price and wages |
D. | the level of aggregate demand for goods and services |
Answer» E. | |
2. |
According to classical models, the level of employment is determined primarily by ? |
A. | the level of aggregate demand for goods and services. |
B. | prices and wages |
C. | interest rates |
D. | the quantity of money |
Answer» C. interest rates | |
3. |
The quantity theory of money implies that a given percentage change in the money supply will cause ? |
A. | an equal percentage change in nominal DGP. |
B. | an equal percentage change in real GDP |
C. | a larger percentage change in nominal GDP |
D. | a smaller percentage change in nominal |
Answer» B. an equal percentage change in real GDP | |
4. |
The regarding the new classical macroeconomics is hoe realistic is the assumption ? |
A. | that monetary policy affects aggregates demand |
B. | that markets do not clear quickly |
C. | that fiscal policy affects aggregate demand |
D. | of rational expectations. |
Answer» E. | |
5. |
It is difficult to determine if the velocity of money is constant over time because ? |
A. | it is difficult to measure the value of nominal GDP over time |
B. | there has been very little fluctuation in the money supply over time. |
C. | it is difficult to measure the demand for money over time |
D. | whether velocity is constant or not may depend on how the money supply is measure. |
Answer» E. | |
6. |
People are said to have rational expectations if they ? |
A. | assume that this year’s inflation rate will be the same as last year’s inflation rate |
B. | merely guess at the inflation rate. |
C. | assume that this year’s inflation rate will be equal to the average inflation rate over the past 10 years |
D. | Use all available information in forming their expectations. |
Answer» E. | |
7. |
The hypothesis that people know the true model of the economy and that they use this model to form their expectations of the future is the ? |
A. | Rational-expectations hypothesis |
B. | Passive-expectations hypothesis |
C. | adaptive expectations hypothesis |
D. | lagged-expectations hypothesis. |
Answer» B. Passive-expectations hypothesis | |
8. |
The nation that the government can establish the macroeconomic is known as ? |
A. | fine tuning |
B. | monestarism |
C. | microeconomics foundations of macroeconomics |
D. | the classical model |
Answer» B. monestarism | |
9. |
If the demand for money depends on the interest rate the velocity of circulation is ? |
A. | not constant and the quantity theory of money does hold. |
B. | constant and the quantity theory of money does hold. |
C. | not constant and the quantity theory of money does not hold. |
D. | constant and the quantity theory of money does not hold. |
Answer» D. constant and the quantity theory of money does not hold. | |
10. |
A group of modern economists who believe that markets clear very rapidly and that expanding the money supply will always increase prices rather than employment are the ? |
A. | Keynesians |
B. | post-keynesians |
C. | monetarists |
D. | new classical school |
Answer» E. | |
11. |
New classical theories were an attempt to explain ? |
A. | how unemployment could have persisted for so long during the Great Depression |
B. | The increase in the growth rate of real output in the 1950s |
C. | the stagflation of the 1970s |
D. | Why policy changes that are perceived as permanent have more of an impact on a person’s behaviour than policy changes that are viewed as temporary. |
Answer» D. Why policy changes that are perceived as permanent have more of an impact on a person’s behaviour than policy changes that are viewed as temporary. | |
12. |
The persistence of a phenomenon such as unemployment, even then its causes have been removed is called ? |
A. | the fallacy of composition |
B. | negative entropy. |
C. | hysteresis. |
D. | ceteris paribus |
Answer» D. ceteris paribus | |
13. |
According to the classical economists the economy ? |
A. | requires fine tuning to reach full employment |
B. | can never deviate from full employment |
C. | will never be at full employment |
D. | is self-correcting. |
Answer» E. | |
14. |
Keynesian economics became popular because it was able to explain ? |
A. | stagflation in the late 1970s |
B. | demand-pull inflation in the 1960s |
C. | low growth rates in the 1950s |
D. | The prolonged existence of high unemployment during the Great depression |
Answer» E. | |
15. |
The rational-expectation hypothesis suggests that the forecasts that people make concerning future inflation rates ? |
A. | consistently overestimate the actual rate of inflation in the future. |
B. | are always correct |
C. | consistently underestimate the actual rate of inflation in the future |
D. | are correct on average, but are subject to errors that are distributed randomly |
Answer» E. | |
16. |
Rapid increase in the price level during periods of recession of high unemployment are known as ? |
A. | slump |
B. | inflation |
C. | stagflation |
D. | stagnation |
Answer» D. stagnation | |
17. |
The government increase government spending to try to reduce unemployment This is an example of ? |
A. | laissez-faire. |
B. | monetary policy |
C. | fine tuning |
D. | automatic stablisers |
Answer» D. automatic stablisers | |
18. |
Prices that do not always adjust rapidly to maintain equality between quantity supplied and quantity demanded are ? |
A. | market prices |
B. | sticky prices |
C. | fixed prices |
D. | regulatory prices |
Answer» C. fixed prices | |
19. |
The economists who emphasised wage flexibility as a solution for unemployment were ? |
A. | new-Keynesian. |
B. | post-Keynesian. |
C. | classical economists. |
D. | Keynesian. |
Answer» D. Keynesian. | |
20. |
A group of modern economists who believe that institutional factors and confidence strongly influence business behaviour and that expanding demand will usually increase output rather than prices are the ? |
A. | monetarists. |
B. | keynesians |
C. | post-keynesians |
D. | new classical school |
Answer» D. new classical school | |