ECO 305 Week 11 Quiz – Strayer
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Quiz 10 Chapter 16 and 17
MACROECONOMIC POLICY IN AN OPEN
ECONOMY
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. A
nation experiences internal balance if it achieves:
a. Full employment
b. Price stability
c. Full employment and price stability
d. Unemployment and price instability
2. A
nation experiences external balance if it achieves:
a. No net changes in its international
gold stocks
b. Productivity levels equal to those of
its trading partners
c. An increase in its money supply equal
to increases overseas
d. Equilibrium in its balance of payments
3. A
nation experiences overall balance if it achieves:
a. Balance-of-payments equilibrium, full
employment, and price stability
b. Balance-of-payments equilibrium,
maximum productivity, and price stability
c. Full employment, price stability and no
change in its money supply
d. Full employment, price stability, and
maximum productivity
4. Most
industrial countries generally considered ____ as the most important economic
goal.
a. External balance
b. Internal balance
c. Maximum efficiency for business
d. Maximum efficiency for labor
5. Which
policies are expenditure-changing policies?
a. Currency devaluation and revaluation
b. Import quotas and tariffs
c. Monetary and fiscal policy
d. Wage and price controls
6. Which
policy is an expenditure-switching policy?
a. Increase in the money supply
b. Decrease in government expenditures
c. Increase in business and household
taxes
d. Decrease in import tariffs
7. An
expenditure-increasing policy would consist of an increase in:
a. Import tariffs
b. Import quotas
c. Governmental taxes
d. The money supply
8. An
expenditure-reducing policy would consist of a decrease in:
a. The par value of a currency
b. Government expenditures
c. Import duties
d. Business or household taxes
9. Given
fixed exchange rates, assume Mexico initiates expansionary monetary and fiscal
policies to combat recession. These policies will also:
a. Increase both imports and exports
b. Increase exports and reduce imports
c. Reduce a balance-of-payments surplus
d. Reduce a balance-of-payments deficit
10. Given
fixed exchange rates, assume Mexico initiates contractionary monetary and
fiscal policies to combat inflation. These policies will also:
a. Reduce a balance-of-payments surplus
b. Reduce a balance-of-payments deficit
c. Increases both imports and exports
d. Decrease both imports and exports
11. The
appropriate expenditure-switching policy to correct a current account surplus
is:
a. Currency revaluation
b. Currency devaluation
c. Expansionary monetary policy
d. Contractionary fiscal policy
12. The
appropriate expenditure-switching policy to correct a current account deficit
is:
a. Contractionary monetary policy
b. Expansionary fiscal policy
c. Currency devaluation
d. Currency revaluation
13. Suppose
the United States faces domestic recession and a current account deficit.
Should the United States devalue the dollar, one would expect the:
a. Recession to become less
severe--deficit to become less severe
b. Recession to become more
severe--deficit to become less severe
c. Recession to become less
severe--deficit to become more severe
d. Recession to become more
severe--deficit to become more severe
14. Suppose
the United States faces domestic inflation and a current account surplus.
Should the United States revalue the dollar, one would expect the:
a. Inflation to become more
severe--surplus to become less severe
b. Inflation to become less
severe--surplus to become less severe
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