Exam 12: The Business Cycle, Inflation, and Deflation

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Use the figure below to answer the following questions. Use the figure below to answer the following questions.    Figure 12.1.1 -Refer to Figure 12.1.1.Suppose the economy moves from point D to point B.According to the monetarist theory of the business cycle, what could have caused this movement? Figure 12.1.1 -Refer to Figure 12.1.1.Suppose the economy moves from point D to point B.According to the monetarist theory of the business cycle, what could have caused this movement?

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Suppose that in response to a decrease in real interest rates, a person decides to reduce his supply of labour today and increase it in the future.This behaviour is most consistent with the

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Suppose aggregate demand increases by more than expected.Which of the following does not occur?

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The _______ cycle theory states that only unexpected fluctuations in aggregate demand bring fluctuations in real GDP around potential GDP.

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According to real business cycle theory, workers' decisions to work now versus later depend on

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Use the figure below to answer the following questions. Use the figure below to answer the following questions.    Figure 12.2.2 -Refer to Figure 12.2.2.The vertical distance between SAS<sub>0 </sub>and SAS<sub>1 </sub>represents the Figure 12.2.2 -Refer to Figure 12.2.2.The vertical distance between SAS0 and SAS1 represents the

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Which one of the following can start a demand- pull inflation?

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An increase in the expected rate of inflation shifts the

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Deflation occurs when

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Use the table below to answer the following questions. Table 12.4.1 Use the table below to answer the following questions. Table 12.4.1   -Refer to Table 12.4.1.The table gives points on a short- run Phillips curve.If the expected inflation rate is 10 percent, what is the natural unemployment rate? -Refer to Table 12.4.1.The table gives points on a short- run Phillips curve.If the expected inflation rate is 10 percent, what is the natural unemployment rate?

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If the unemployment rate rises and the inflation rate falls, while the natural unemployment rate and the expected inflation rate remain constant, then we are studying a movement along the

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Stagflation occurs when the economy experiences both a

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Deflation ends with

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A cost- price inflation spiral results if the policy response to stagflation is to keep

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An economy is in long- run equilibrium when aggregate supply unexpectedly decreases.Then real GDP ceteris paribus) will be

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An increase in the price level due to an increase in the price of oil

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_______ states that the main source of economic fluctuations is fluctuations in business confidence.

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An unanticipated deflation does all of the following except

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Use the table below to answer the following questions. Table 12.4.2 -Use the table below to answer the following questions. Table 12.4.2 -  The economy's natural unemployment rate is 4 percent.Table 12.4.2 gives some points on the economy's short- run Phillips curve.When the unemployment rate is 4 percent, The economy's natural unemployment rate is 4 percent.Table 12.4.2 gives some points on the economy's short- run Phillips curve.When the unemployment rate is 4 percent,

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If the inflation rate is lower than the expected inflation rate,

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