Question 1

What are two components of aggregate expenditures in a closed private economy?

Accepted Answer

Consumption and inve

Question 2

The data in the first two columns below are for a closed economy without government.Use this table to answer the following questions.   (a) What is the equilibrium GDP for the closed economy?
(b) What is the size of the multiplier in the closed economy?
(c) Including the international trade figures for exports and imports, calculate net exports and determine the equilibrium GDP for an open economy.(d) What will happen to equilibrium GDP if exports were $25 billion larger at each level of GDP?
(e) What is the size of the multiplier in the open economy?

Accepted Answer

(a) For the closed economy, equilibrium

Question 3

Answer the following questions using the aggregate expenditures model of the economy described below.C = 90 + .7Yd
T = 50 + .2Y
Ia = 36
Ga = 45
Xa = 62
M = .16Y
(a) What are the marginal propensity to consume, the marginal tax rate, and the marginal propensity to import?
(b) What is the saving function? What is the marginal propensity to save?
(c) What is the aggregate expenditure function? What is autonomous expenditure? What is the marginal propensity to withdraw?
(d) What is the equilibrium level of real GDP?
(e) What is the size of the multiplier?
(f) Suppose the full employment level of real GDP is $350.Does a recessionary gap or an inflationary gap exist? How can the government eliminate the gap by altering government expenditures?

Accepted Answer

(a) The marginal propensity to consume i

Question 4

Answer the following questions using the aggregate expenditures model of the economy described below.C = 80 + .6Yd
T = 40 + .2Y
Ia = 28
Ga = 64
Xa = 76
M = .18Y
(a) What are the marginal propensity to consume, the marginal tax rate, and the marginal propensity to import?
(b) What is the saving function? What is the marginal propensity to save?
(c) What is the aggregate expenditure function? What is autonomous expenditure? What is the marginal propensity to withdraw?
(d) What is the equilibrium level of real GDP?
(e) What is the size of the multiplier?
(f) Suppose the full employment level of real GDP is $340.Does a recessionary gap or an inflationary gap exist? How can the government eliminate the gap by altering government expenditures?

Accepted Answer

(a) The marginal propensity to consume i

Question 5

What is the difference between the multiplier in a closed private economy and the multiplier in a mixed open economy?

Accepted Answer

In a closed private economy, the only le

Question 6

Some critics of the Chinese government accuse it of "manipulating" its currency, the Chinese yuan.Explain the nature of and the effects of this "manipulation".

Accepted Answer

Some critics of the Chinese government a

Question 7

If there is a recessionary gap of $100 billion and the MPC is 0.8, by how much must taxes be reduced to eliminate the recessionary gap? Assume that prices are stuck and that investment, net exports, government expenditures, and taxes do not change with changes in real GDP.

Accepted Answer

If the MPC is 0.8, then the MPS is 0.2 a

Exam 11: A: The Aggregate Expenditures Model

What are two components of aggregate expenditures in a closed private economy?

What is the difference between the multiplier in a closed private economy and the multiplier in a mixed open economy?

Some critics of the Chinese government accuse it of "manipulating" its currency, the Chinese yuan.Explain the nature of and the effects of this "manipulation".

If there is a recessionary gap of $100 billion and the MPC is 0.8, by how much must taxes be reduced to eliminate the recessionary gap? Assume that prices are stuck and that investment, net exports, government expenditures, and taxes do not change with changes in real GDP.

B: Limits, Alternatives, and Choices

A: - Limits, Alternatives, and Choices

B: The Market System and the Circular Flow

A: - The Market System and the Circular Flow

B: Demand, Supply, and Market Equilibrium

A: - Demand, Supply, and Market Equilibrium

B: Market Failures: Public Goods and Externalities

A: - Market Failures: Public Goods and Externalities

B: Governments Role and Government Failure

A: Governments Role and Government Failure

B: an Introduction to Macroeconomics

A: an Introduction to Macroeconomics

B: Measuring the Economys Output

A: Measuring the Economys Output

B: Economic Growth

A: Economic Growth

B: Business Cycles, Unemployment, and Inflation

A: Business Cycles, Unemployment, and Inflation

B: Basic Macroeconomic Relationships

A: Basic Macroeconomic Relationships

B: The Aggregate Expenditures Model

B: Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply

A: Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply

B: Fiscal Policy, Deficits, Surpluses, and Debt

A: Fiscal Policy, Deficits, Surpluses, and Debt

B: Money, Banking, and Money Creation

A: Money, Banking, and Money Creation

B: Interest Rates and Monetary Policy

A: Interest Rates and Monetary Policy

C: Financial Economics

A: Long-Run Macroeconomic Adjustments

B: Long-Run Macroeconomic Adjustments

A: International Trade

B: International Trade

A: The Balance of Payments and Exchange Rates

B: The Balance of Payments and Exchange Rates

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