Question 1

The government agency responsible for collecting and reporting unemployment data is the

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A)   Bureau of Labor Statistics.
B)   Bureau of Unemployment.
C)   Bureau of Economic Analysis.
D)   Bureau of Economic Research.

Question 2

A recession is deﬁned as a period in which

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A)   cost-push inﬂation is present.
B)   nominal domestic output falls.
C)   demand-pull inﬂation is present.
D)   real domestic output falls.

Question 3

Over a 10-year period, the Consumer Price Index doubled. Based on this information and using the rule of 70, we can say that the average annual rate of inﬂation over this period was approximately

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A)   10 percent.
B)   9 percent.
C)   7 percent.
D)   5 percent.

Question 4

Which of the following is correct?

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A)   During the Great Recession, unemployment rates for men rose above those of women.
B)   Unemployment rates for African-American and White workers are approximately the same.
C)   Teenagers experience approximately the same unemployment rates as do adults.
D)   Laborers are less vulnerable to unemployment than are professional workers.

Question 5

People who work part time, but desire to work full time, are considered to be oﬃcially unemployed.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

Demand-pull inﬂation is usually accompanied by low unemployment and higher real output.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

Only two resources, capital and labor, are used in an economy to produce an output of 600 million units. If the total cost of capital resources is $300 million and the total cost of labor resources is
$100 million, then the per-unit production costs in this economy are

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A)   $0.67.
B)   $1.50.
C)   $2.00.
D)   $3.00.

Question 8

Okun's law

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A)   measures the trade-off between the rate of inﬂation and the rate of unemployment.
B)   indicates the number of years it will take for a constant rate of inﬂation to double the price level.
C)   quantiﬁes the relationship between nominal and real incomes.
D)   shows the relationship between the unemployment rate and the size of the negative GDP gap.

Question 9

A nation has a population of 260 million people. Of these, 60 million are retired, in the military, institutionalized, or under 16 years old. There are 188 million who are employed and 12 million who
Are unemployed. What is the unemployment rate?

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A)   4 percent
B)   6 percent
C)   9 percent
D)   27 percent

Question 10

Unanticipated inﬂation beneﬁts creditors and savers.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

New college graduates still looking for their ﬁrst jobs would be classiﬁed in the BLS data as

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A)   frictionally unemployed.
B)   not yet in the labor force.
C)   cyclically unemployed.
D)   part of structural unemployment.

Question 12

What is the main problem with mild inﬂation, according to some economists?

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A)   It reduces the size of the GDP gap.
B)   It leads to unanticipated deﬂation.
C)   It increases frictional and structural unemployment in the economy.
D)   It diverts productive time toward activities to hedge against inﬂation.

Question 13

The total adult population of an economy is 175 million, the number of employed is 122 million, and the number of unemployed is 17 million. The percentage of adults who are not in the labor force is

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A)   25.3 percent.
B)   20.6 percent.
C)   30.3 percent.
D)   13.9 percent.

Question 14

Which statement about inﬂation is correct?

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A)   Families are always hurt by inﬂation.
B)   Inﬂation "subsidizes" those who receive relatively ﬁxed money income.
C)   The redistributive effects of inﬂation are arbitrary with respect to people and groups in society.
D)   Inﬂation will decrease the real value of property assets and increase the real value of ﬁxed- value assets.

Question 15

The annual rate of inﬂation can be found by subtracting

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A)   the real income from the nominal income.
B)   last year's price index from this year's price index.
C)   this year's price index from last year's price index and dividing the difference by this year's price index.
D)   last year's price index from this year's price index and dividing the difference by last year's price index.

Question 16

In the accompanying diagram, the straight line E drawn through the wavy lines would provide an estimate of the

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A)   recession ﬂuctuation.
B)   economic growth trend.
C)   natural rate of unemployment.
D)   recovery trend.

Question 17

Suppose that lenders want to receive a real rate of interest of 5 percent and that they expect inﬂation to remain steady at 2 percent in the coming years. Based on this, lenders should charge a
Nominal interest rate of

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A)   2 percent.
B)   3 percent.
C)   5 percent.
D)   7 percent.

Question 18

The diagram illustrates the pattern of

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A)   business cycles.
B)   wage movements over time.
C)   price level movements.
D)   economic growth patterns.

Question 19

Proponents of zero inﬂation argue that even mild inﬂation (1 to 3 percent) reduces the economy's
real output.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

The unemployment rate is the

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A)   ratio of unemployed to employed workers.
B)   number of employed workers minus the number of workers who are not in the labor force.
C)   percentage of the labor force that is unemployed.
D)   percentage of the total population that is unemployed.

Exam 9: Business Cycles, Unemployment, and Inflation

The government agency responsible for collecting and reporting unemployment data is the

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People who work part time, but desire to work full time, are considered to be oﬃcially unemployed.

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A nation has a population of 260 million people. Of these, 60 million are retired, in the military, institutionalized, or under 16 years old. There are 188 million who are employed and 12 million who Are unemployed. What is the unemployment rate?

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Proponents of zero inﬂation argue that even mild inﬂation (1 to 3 percent) reduces the economy's real output.

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The total adult population of an economy is 175 million, the number of employed is 122 million, and the number of unemployed is 17 million. The percentage of adults who are not in the labor force is

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The annual rate of inﬂation can be found by subtracting

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The unemployment rate is the

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Which of the following is correct?

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Unanticipated inﬂation beneﬁts creditors and savers.

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New college graduates still looking for their ﬁrst jobs would be classiﬁed in the BLS data as

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Only two resources, capital and labor, are used in an economy to produce an output of 600 million units. If the total cost of capital resources is $300 million and the total cost of labor resources is $100 million, then the per-unit production costs in this economy are

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The diagram illustrates the pattern of

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A recession is deﬁned as a period in which

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Okun's law

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Which statement about inﬂation is correct?

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In the accompanying diagram, the straight line E drawn through the wavy lines would provide an estimate of the

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Over a 10-year period, the Consumer Price Index doubled. Based on this information and using the rule of 70, we can say that the average annual rate of inﬂation over this period was approximately

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What is the main problem with mild inﬂation, according to some economists?

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Suppose that lenders want to receive a real rate of interest of 5 percent and that they expect inﬂation to remain steady at 2 percent in the coming years. Based on this, lenders should charge a Nominal interest rate of

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Demand-pull inﬂation is usually accompanied by low unemployment and higher real output.

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