Introduction to Macroeconomics
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Course Introduction
Introduction to Macroeconomics explores the fundamental principles and concepts that shape the overall functioning of economies on a national and global scale. The course examines key macroeconomic indicators such as gross domestic product (GDP), inflation, unemployment, and interest rates, providing students with a solid understanding of how these factors interact. Topics include the structure of national income, fiscal and monetary policy, economic growth, and international trade. Through both theoretical foundations and real-world applications, students learn how governments and central banks influence economic activity, promote stability, and address economic challenges.
Recommended Textbook Principles of Macroeconomics A Streamlined Approach 3rd Edition by Robert H. Frank
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Chapter 1: Thinking Like an Economist
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Q1) You have two options for how to spend the afternoon. You can either go see a movie with your roommate or work as a tutor for the Math Department. From experience, you know that going to see a movie gives you $20 worth of enjoyment, and with your student discount, a movie ticket only costs $12. If you spend the afternoon working as a math tutor, you will get paid $45. On a typical day, you wouldn't be willing to spend the afternoon working as a math tutor for less than $35. Should you go see a movie or work as a math tutor?
A) You should work as a math tutor.
B) You should go to the movies.
C) You should do neither
D) Both options are equally good.
Answer: A
Q2) The marginal benefit of an activity is the:
A) same as the total benefit of an activity.
B) total benefit of an activity divided by the level of the activity.
C) extra benefit associated with an extra unit of the activity.
D) total benefit associated with an extra unit of the activity.
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Supply and Demand
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Q1) If supply and demand both decrease, the new equilibrium price will be ______ and the new equilibrium quantity will be ______.
A) lower; lower
B) lower; uncertain
C) higher; higher
D) uncertain; lower
Answer: D
Q2) What might cause a demand curve to shift to the right?
A) An increase in the price of a substitute.
B) An increase in the product's own price.
C) An increase in the price of a complement.
D) A decrease in the price of a substitute.
Answer: A
Q3) If the demand for olives falls when the price of cheese falls, then we know that cheese and olives are:
A) normal goods
B) complements
C) substitutes
D) inferior goods
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: International Trade and Trade Policy
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Q1) Suppose it takes Dan 5 minutes to make a sandwich and 15 minutes to make a smoothie, and it takes Tracy 6 minutes to make a sandwich and 12 minutes to make a smoothie. What is the opportunity cost to Dan of making a sandwich?
A) 1/3 of a smoothie
B) 3 smoothies
C) 15 smoothies
D) 5 smoothies
Answer: A
Q2) The demand for cars in a certain country is given by: D = 20,000 - P, where P is the price of a car. Supply by domestic car producers is: S = 5,000 + 0.5P. If this economy opens to trade while the world price of a car is $6,000, and the government imposes a quota allowing 3000 cars to be imported, then the winners are ________.
A) domestic consumers
B) domestic consumers and import permit holders
C) domestic producers and the government
D) domestic producers and import permit holders
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Macroeconomics: the Birds-Eye View of the Economy
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Q1) Positive analysis:
A) recommends whether a policy should be implemented.
B) aims at determining only the economic consequences of a particular policy.
C) depends on the analyst's values.
D) determines whether the consequences of a policy are desirable.
Q2) Which of the following is a macroeconomic policy?
A) How an early freeze in California will affect the price of fruit.
B) Tax cuts to bring the federal budget into balance
C) Requiring locks on all guns.
D) Regulations limiting automobile emissions.
Q3) Major macroeconomic questions include all of the following EXCEPT:
A) What causes economic growth?
B) What causes differences in wages between men and women?
C) Why does inflation vary over time and across countries?
D) What are the causes of unemployment?
Q4) The Great Depression:
A) occurred only in the United States.
B) resulted in the development of microeconomics.
C) was a period of low production and high unemployment.
D) ended a few months after the stock market crash of 1929.
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Chapter 5: Measuring Economic Activity: GDP, Unemployment,
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Q1) Wages and salaries are examples of:
A) consumption.
B) labor income.
C) capital income.
D) profits.
Q2) GDP can be measured as each of the following except:
A) the market value of production.
B) total expenditure on final goods and services.
C) incomes of capital and labor.
D) total business revenues.
Q3) If Bountiful Orchard grows $100,000 worth of peaches, sells $50,000 worth of peaches to consumers and uses to rest to make jam that is sold to consumers for $100,000, Bountiful Orchard's contribution to GDP is:
A) $50,000.
B) $100,000.
C) $150,000.
D) $200,000.
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Chapter 6: Economic Growth, Productivity, and Living Standards
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Q1) Business managers are people who:
A) engage exclusively in business travel.
B) entertain the workers.
C) run businesses on a day-to-day basis.
D) own the physical capital used in production.
Q2) If you left $2,500 on deposit with a bank promising to pay you a 6 percent compound annual rate of interest, then after 50 years your deposit would be worth approximately:
A) $2,800
B) $18,420
C) $46,050
D) $250,750
Q3) If two countries are economically identical except that citizens in one country have more leisure time, then the level of GDP:
A) will be higher in the country with more leisure time.
B) will be higher in the country with less leisure time.
C) will be the same in both countries.
D) will be greater than the level of economic well-being in each country.
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Chapter 7: The Labor Market: Workers, Wages, and Unemployment
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Q1) Macroland produces dishes and glassware. Before trade, a set of dishes sells for $100 and a set of glasses sells for $50. When Macroland opens to trade, foreign demand for domestically produced china is strong, raising the price of a set of dishes to $125. But foreign competition reduces the demand for domestically produced glasses, so they now sell for $25 a set. Assuming workers cannot move between industries, the wages of workers producing dishes will ______ and the wages of workers producing glasses will
A) increase; increase
B) increase; not change
C) increase; decrease
D) decrease; increase
Q2) Long-term increases in productivity that have increased the demand for labor, and raised real wages, have resulted primarily from ______ and _____.
A) technological progress; a modernized capital stock
B) technological progress; an increased labor supply
C) a modernized capital stock; skill-biased technological change
D) a modernized capital stock; an increased labor supply
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Chapter 8: Saving and Capital Formation
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Q1) Anything of value one owns is called a(n):
A) asset.
B) liability.
C) capital gain.
D) investment.
Q2) Where Y is GDP, C is consumption, I is investment, G is government purchases, T is net taxes, and there is no international trade, the government budget deficit equals:
A) T - G.
B) Y - G.
C) Y + T - G.
D) G - T.
Q3) Holding other factors constant, if a tax cut moves the government budget from a surplus to a deficit, then the real interest rate will ______ and the equilibrium quantity of national saving and investment will ____.
A) increase; increase
B) decrease; decrease
C) increase; decrease
D) decrease; increase
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Chapter 9: Money, The Federal Reserve, and Global
Financial Markets
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Q1) Money market mutual funds are ______ the M1 measure of money and ______ the M2 measure of money.
A) included in; excluded from B) included in; included in C) excluded from; excluded from D) excluded from; included in
Q2) The coupon rate on newly issued bonds is usually higher for bonds with ______ terms and ______ risk that the borrower will go bankrupt.
A) shorter; greater B) shorter; smaller C) longer; greater D) longer; smaller
Q3) Money is:
A) the same as income.
B) all financial assets.
C) any asset used to make purchases.
D) the sum of assets minus debts.
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Chapter 10: Short-Term Economic Fluctuations and Fiscal Policy
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Q1) Provisions in the law that automatically increase government spending or decrease taxes when real output declines are called:
A) autonomous stabilizers.
B) automatic stabilizers.
C) the marginal propensity to consume.
D) the income-expenditure multiplier.
Q2) Assuming that the government can act immediately before the multiplier takes effect, then to offset a reduction in investment by $1 billion, government purchases must be:
A) increased by $1 billion.
B) decreased by $1 billion.
C) increased by $0.5 billion.
D) increased by $2 billion.
Q3) The cyclical unemployment rate is positive when
A) there is a recessionary gap.
B) there is an expansionary gap.
C) the output gap equals zero.
D) frictional unemployment equals structural unemployment.
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Chapter 11: Stabilizing the Economy: The Role of the Fed
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Q1) The Federal Reserve can:
A) simultaneously set independent money supply and nominal interest rate targets.
B) only target the nominal interest rate, not the money supply.
C) only set a money supply target that is consistent with a nominal interest rate target, and vice versa.
D) only target the money supply, not the nominal interest rate.
Q2) Financial markets pay close attention to changes in the federal funds rate because these changes:
A) directly affect a large volume of loans.
B) indicate the Fed's plans for monetary policy.
C) indicate commercial bank lending policies.
D) directly affect the interest payments on the national debt.
Q3) The ______ is the interest rate commercial banks pay to the Fed; the ______ is the interest rate commercial banks charge each other for short-term loans.
A) federal funds rate; discount rate
B) discount rate; federal funds rate
C) nominal interest rate; real interest rate
D) nominal interest rate; prime rate of interest
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Chapter 12: Inflation and Aggregate Supply
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Q1) Aggregate supply shocks are:
A) the results of monetary policy actions.
B) the results of fiscal policy actions.
C) the results of structural policy actions.
D) inflation shocks or shocks to potential output.
Q2) The output losses from an adverse inflation shock are ____ and the output losses from a fall in potential output are ______.
A) small; large
B) large; small
C) permanent; temporary
D) temporary; permanent
Q3) An example of an adverse inflation shock is:
A) an increase in interest rates.
B) an increase in government purchases.
C) a significant rise in oil prices.
D) a tax increase.
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Chapter 13: Exchange Rates and the Open Economy
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Q1) Holding all else constant, an increase in preferences by Mexicans for U.S. goods will ______ the demand for dollars in the foreign exchange market and ______ the equilibrium Mexican peso/U.S. dollar exchange rate.
A) increase; increase
B) increase; decrease
C) decrease; decrease
D) decrease; increase
Q2) The demand for euros in the foreign exchange market equals 8,000 - 2,000 e and the supply of euros in the foreign exchange market equals 3,000 + 3,000 e, where e is the nominal exchange rate expressed in U.S. dollars per euro. If the euro is fixed at 1.25 U.S. dollars per euro, then the euro is _____ and Euroland has a balance-of-payments
A) overvalued; surplus of 1,250 euros
B) overvalued; deficit of 1,250 euros
C) undervalued; deficit of 1,250 euros
D) undervalued; surplus of 1,250 euros
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