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INSTRUCTIONS:
1. The exam lasts 1 hour.
2. The exam is worth 60 points in total: 30 points for the multiple choice questions and 30 points for the two analytical
problems.
3. Write your answers for part A (the multiple choice section) in the blanks below. You wont get credit for circled
answers in the multiple choice section.
4. Place all of your answers for part B in the space provided.
5. You must show your work for part B questions. There is no need to explain your answers for the multiple choice
questions.
6. Good luck!
PART A: Multiple Choice Problems
Answer multiple choice questions in the space provided below.
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6) The cars produced by Toyota (a Japanese company) in its factory in Kentucky ________ in Japanese GDP.
Distributed profits to Toyotas shareholders _______ in Japanese GNP (assume that Toyotas owners are all
Japanese).
A) count, count
B) count, do not count
C) do not count, count
D) do not count, do not count
Answer: C
7) If a the government of Country Z is running a budget deficit and net exports are zero, then
A) investment is greater than saving.
B) investment and saving are equal.
C) saving is greater than investment.
D) none of the above.
Answer: C
8) If real GDP for a given year is $2400 billion and nominal GDP is $2400 billion,
A) this year is the base year for the GDP deflator.
B) the GDP deflator for this year is 1.25.
C) the GDP deflator for this year is 0.8.
D) the GDP deflator for this year is 1.10.
Answer: A
9) Help in financing our federal budget deficit comes from a ________ amount of net exports, which is called
________.
A) negative, net foreign investment.
B) negative, foreign borrowing.
C) positive, net foreign investment.
D) positive, foreign borrowing.
Answer: B
10) Which of the following is not a reason why an increase in stock market wealth reduces the personal saving
rate
A) Autonomous consumption depends positively on real net worth
B) Autonomous consumption depends negatively on the interest rate
C) Higher stock prices generate capital gains
D) Saving equals disposable income minus consumption
Answer: B
11) Which of the following statements would be true of an economy that can be characterized as being to the
left of the IS curve?
A) There will be a tendency for the level of output to decrease.
B) There will be a tendency for interest rates to fall.
C) There is an excess demand for commodities at the existing interest rate.
D) There is an excess supply of commodities at the existing interest rate.
Answer: C
12) Over the past two decades, the ratio of European to US values are high for
A) hours per capita.
B) unemployment rate.
C) real GDP per capita.
D) labor-force participation rate.
E) B and D.
Answer: B
15) Suppose that in producing a GDP of 3000, goods worth 200 go unsold and are unintentionally added to
business inventories. These goods
A) are not counted in total expenditure.
B) are part of the investment component of expenditure.
C) are nonetheless part of the consumption component of expenditure.
D) are classified as net exports and are subtracted from total expenditures.
Answer: B
16) If disposable income increases by $100 and consumption increased by $85, ceteris paribus, we may
conclude that
A) the marginal propensity to consume is 0.85.
B) the marginal propensity to consume is 0.15.
C) $15 is autonomous consumption.
D) a change in disposable income is induced by a change in consumption.
Answer: A
18) The article GDPHappiness criticizes GDP for which reason or reasons
A) Including the value of household production
B) Excluding the value of household production
C) Including the construction of prisons and excluding the costs of crime
D) Excluding the construction of prisons and including the costs of crime
E) A) and D)
F) B) and C)
Answer: F
19) If Y = income, G = government spending, T = autonomous taxes, and t = income tax rate, then the
government budget deficit can be expressed as
A) G - T/Y(t).
B) G - T.
C) Y + G - T - ty.
D) G - T - ty.
Answer: D
20) The IS curve shows that higher income levels require ________ interest rates to ensure that income equals
________.
A) higher, planned autonomous spending
B) higher, planned expenditures
C) lower, planned autonomous spending
D) lower, planned expenditures
Answer: D
22) Which of the following is not a reason that the author of an article described Americas 2011 consumers as
zombies.
A) High level of household debt
B) Falling house prices
C) Zero lower bound prevents Fed from reducing interest rate
D) Slow real wage growth
Answer: C
23) The Economist summary of the link between financial crises and property busts makes which of these
policy recommendations
A) End tax deductibility of mortgage interest
B) Enforce minimum down payment requirements
C) Eliminate mortgage-backed securities
D) A) and B)
E) B) and C)
Answer: D
25) The LM curve is the set of combinations of ________ such that ________.
A) interest rates and real money balances, real income equals real money balances times (1/r)
B) interest rates and real money balances, the money supply is equally demanded
C) real income and real money balances, the production of output is equally demanded
D) real income and interest rates, the production of output is equally demanded
E) real income and interest rates, the money supply is equally demanded
Answer: E
27) Monetary policy loses its effectiveness in all of the following situations EXCEPT
A) when the IS curve is vertical.
B) when the LM curve is nearly horizontal.
C) when interest rate controlled by the Fed reaches zero.
D) when the IS curve is horizontal.
Answer: D
30) The Economist applies the IS-LM model to answer which of these puzzles?
A) Why long-term bond rates were low while short-term interest rates were rising
B) Why long-term bond rates were high while short-term interest rates were falling
C) Why the 2007-09 recession was so severe
D) Why the 2009-11 recovery has been so weak
Answer: A
2000
2001
3*2+5*2=16
5*2+4*5=30
7*4+7*3=49
n/a
5*2+4*2=18
7*2+7*5=49
16
30
49
3*2+5*5=31
5*4+4*3=32
n/a
n/a
30/31=0.967
49/32=1. 531
n/a
18/16=1.125
49/30=1.633
Chain Weighted
n/a
1.043
1.581
30/1.043=28.75
30
47.44
GDP Deflator
16/28.75=0.556
49/47.44=1.032
Inflation Rate
n/a
58.61%
3.22%
Prices
1. Chairs
2. Tables
Quantities
1. Chairs
2. Tables
Nominal GDP
Expenditure in Constant $
(f) Without calculating, in what direction do investment and net exports change? (2 points)
Since r increases and Y increases, investment decreases and net exports decrease.
(g) Go back to the original values (without the changes in questions (e-f)). Suppose that the government determines the
desired level of income in the economy to be Y = 9880. The government decides to change the money supply in order to
achieve this goal. How should the money supply be changed? (4 points)
The IS curve does not change. Then Y=9880=10760-200r, so r=4.4
The new LM curve satisfies M/P=0.5Y-24r=0.5*9880-24*4.4=4834.4