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Aggregate Demand and Supply MCQ

A change in _____ does not shift the demand curve.

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Correct Answer: Opportunity costs

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The real wage rate definitely falls if the money wage rate ________ and the price level ________.

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Correct Answer: Remains constant; rises

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Consumers are ____________ to changes in the price of used clothing.

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Correct Answer: Very elastic.

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An increase in aggregate demand results in a(n) ________ in the ________.

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Correct Answer: Expansion; short run

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In the Keynesian model the short-run aggregate supply curve is horizontal over the range of output where ______.

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Correct Answer: Actual real GDP is below potential GDP and firms are operating with excess capacity

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When graphically representing aggregate supply (AS), the classical model relies solely on the ______ AS curve.

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Correct Answer: Vertical long-run

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The long-run aggregate supply curve for the United States ______ over time.

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Correct Answer: Shifts rightward

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Only a short-run equilibrium that is ______ is also a long-run equilibrium.

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Correct Answer: At potential output

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What are the effects on the short-run aggregate supply (SRAS) curve and the long-run aggregate supply (LRAS) curve when costs of production fall and potential real output expands?

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Correct Answer: Both curves shift rightward.

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The long-run aggregate supply curve can be shifted to the left by ______.

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Correct Answer: Overregulation

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Both the long-run aggregate supply curve and the short-run aggregate supply curve can shift rightward due to ______.

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Correct Answer: Increases in factors of production

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How does an increase in the price level affect the short-run aggregate supply curve?

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Correct Answer: There is a rightward movement along the curve.

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The total quantity of final goods and services suppliers are willing and able to supply at a given price level is shown on a(n) ______ curve.

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Correct Answer: Aggregate supply

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An increase in population will ______.

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Correct Answer: Increase aggregate demand

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Anything that changes the amount of total spending in the economy (holding ______ constant) will shift the ______ curve.

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Correct Answer: Price levels; aggregate demand

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When the price level in the United States falls relative to the price level in other countries, ceteris paribus, what does the foreign demand effect say will happen?

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Correct Answer: U.S. exports will increase and U.S. imports will decrease.

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The total amount of real goods and services produced in the United States that foreigners and American households, firms, and government entities want to purchase is shown in a(n) ______ curve.

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Correct Answer: Aggregate demand

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Household spending contributes to which components of aggregate demand?

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Correct Answer: Consumption and imports

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Models that include international trade effects are called ______ models.

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Correct Answer: Open economy

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Wage and price inflexibility is the tendency for prices and wages to only adjust ____downward to changes in the economy

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Correct Answer: Slowly

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Unexpected temporary events that can either increase or decrease aggregate supply is called

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Correct Answer: Supply shocks

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A situation in which lower growth and higher prices occur together is called

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Correct Answer: Stagflation

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Short run aggregate supply curve is the graphical relationship between RGDP and the price level when output prices can change but input prices are unable to adjust

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Correct Answer: True

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The output gap that occurs when the actual output is ___ than the potential output is recessionary gap

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Correct Answer: Less

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A type of model that includes international trade effects is ___ economy

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Correct Answer: Open

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The difference between the value of exports and the value of imports is called

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Correct Answer: Net exports

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Long run aggregate supply curve is the graphical relationship between RGDP and the price level when output prices and input prices can fully adjust to economic changes

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Correct Answer: True

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The ____ gap that occurs when the actual output is greater than the potential output is called inflationary gap

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Correct Answer: Output

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Demand pull inflation is price-level increase due to an ___ in aggregate demand

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Correct Answer: Increase

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Cost push inflation is price-level ____ due to a negative supply shock

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Correct Answer: Negative

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The total quantity of final goods and services suppliers are willing and able to supply at a given price level is called

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Correct Answer: Aggregate supply curve

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Aggregate demand graph that shows the ____ relationship between the price level and RGDP demanded

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Correct Answer: Inverse

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The total demand for all the final goods and services in the economy is called

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Correct Answer: Aggregate demand

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