This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Economics > Macroeconomics > Macroeconomics – Quiz 132 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Macroeconomics Quiz 132 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. If the FED decided to increase the money supply this is most likely because the economy has A) An inflationary gap. B) Extremely low interest rates. C) High unemployment. D) A large amount of government spending. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) High unemployment. 2. In general, the higher the potential return on an investment, the riskier the investment. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 3. Full employment is one of macroeconomics goal. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 4. An example of a proportional tax would be A) A state sales tax. B) A local property tax. C) A flat rate income tax. D) The current U.S. income tax. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A flat rate income tax. 5. An acceptable example of economic regulation, a characteristic of a government in a mixed economy, include which of the following: A) Requiring car manufacturers to only produce cars in one color. B) Minimum wage laws. C) Limiting the number of clothing producers in an economy. D) Restricting how much a CEO can be compensated. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Minimum wage laws. 6. George is moving to New York and, as a result, has no job. This is an example of ..... A) Cyclical unemployment. B) Frictional unemployment. C) Structural unemployment. D) Seasonal unemployment. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Frictional unemployment. 7. Which of these policies is likely to have the longest time lag? A) Education. B) Privatisation of nationalised firms. C) Deregulation. D) Reducing the minimum wage. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Education. 8. A form of unemployment reflecting the voluntary leaving or being fired of a job and searching for a new one A) Cyclically unemployment. B) Seasonal unemployment. C) Frictional Unemployment. D) Structural unemployment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Frictional Unemployment. 9. Investment A) Real GDP. B) Investment. C) Depreciation. D) Net exports. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Investment. 10. A ..... is a reduction in the value of a currency that is set under a fixed exchange rate regime. A) Devaluation. B) Revaluation. C) Valuation. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Devaluation. 11. What is a series of cycles of economic expansion? A) Business Cycle. B) Water Cycle. C) Air Cycle. D) Fire Cycle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Business Cycle. 12. LM curve in Mundell-Fleming model A) Horizontal. B) Vertical. C) Downward sloping. D) Upward sloping. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vertical. 13. Efficency wages are wages that employers set above the equilibrium wage rate as an incentive for better employee performance. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 14. Which of the points in the graph is associated with the peak of business cycle? A) Point A. B) Point B. C) Point C. D) Point D. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Point B. 15. The relationship between price and the quantity demanded of a certain good or service A) Demand. B) Law of Demand. C) Supply. D) Equilibrium Quantity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Demand. 16. If a checking account has an interest rate of 1% and a government bond has an interest rate of 2%, the opportunity cost of holding the checking account as money is: A) 0%. B) 1%. C) 2%. D) 3%. E) -1%. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1%. 17. If the government wants to contract aggregate demand, it can ..... government purchases or ..... taxes. A) Increase, increase. B) Increase, decrease. C) Decrease, increase. D) Decrease, decrease. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Decrease, increase. 18. The General Theory of Employment. Interest and Money 2. Keynesian Economics3. the " Keynesian Consensus" A) Milton Friedman. B) Friedrich Hayek. C) John Maynard Keynes. D) Karl Marx. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) John Maynard Keynes. 19. Which of the following is included in the calculation of personal income, but not national income? A) Undistributed corporate profits. B) Social security contribution. C) Corporate dividend. D) Transfer payment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Transfer payment. 20. Listing the factors of production for starting a business addresses which basic economic questions? A) How to produce?. B) For whom to produce?. C) What to produce?. D) How much to produce?. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) How to produce?. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesEconomics QuizzesMacroeconomics Quiz 1Macroeconomics Quiz 2Macroeconomics Quiz 3Macroeconomics Quiz 4Macroeconomics Quiz 5Macroeconomics Quiz 6Macroeconomics Quiz 7Macroeconomics Quiz 8Macroeconomics Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books