Exam 19: What Macroeconomics Is All About

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Suppose actual output is less than potential output.If the output gap measures the output loss due to the failure to achieve full employment,it can generally be concluded that the larger this output gap,the

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As the banking industry becomes more and more automated,tellers find themselves with unneeded skills and some of them become unemployed.At the same time,software engineers are in increasing demand.These unemployed tellers would be classified as

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If a country's population is 15 million people,and 1 million of those are unemployed,the country's unemployment rate is

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Which of the following is an equivalent term for "full-employment output"?

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Consider an output gap where Y < Y*.This output gap

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Suppose Canada's exchange rate with the euro rises from 1.2 to 1.4.This rise indicates a(n)________ of the Canadian dollar,which means it takes ________ Canadian dollars to purchase one euro.

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A change in the Consumer Price Index measures

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Which of the following macroeconomic variables in Canada do NOT display a significant long-run trend over recent decades?

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What does real GDP measure?

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On a graph showing real national income on the vertical axis and time on the horizontal axis,the fluctuations of real national income around the trend-line would indicate the

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On a graph showing real national income on the vertical axis and time on the horizontal axis,the trend-line would probably be a good approximation of the

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A nation's real national income in a given year measures the

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Suppose that a country's population is 30 million and it has a labour force of 15 million people.If 14.5 million people are employed,the country's unemployment rate is

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The unemployment rate will understate the true amount of unemployment if

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In some macroeconomic analyses,it is common to treat the level of productivity as roughly constant.This is a justifiable assumption in

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Consider the situations of a lender and a borrower of money.Which of the following situations is most advantageous to the lender?

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In macroeconomics,what is the output gap?

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Since 1960 in Canada,the rate of inflation has ranged (approximately)between

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Suppose Appliance Mart buys a used refrigerator for $100,repairs it,and resells it for $250.The result of this transaction is to

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Inflation is the rate of change of average prices in the economy.In general,we can say that inflation

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