National Income & Price Determination unit test

A test on this unit alone, marked as a percentage and a letter grade — for the test your class is actually sitting, rather than for May. Answer everything, then submit once: seeing the answer to question 3 before attempting question 4 makes the final percentage meaningless.

Paper 1 Paper 2 Paper 3

Each paper is built from this unit’s 30 terms and is the same for everyone, so a teacher can assign “Unit 3, Paper 1” and every student sits the identical test. Multiple choice is marked objectively; the written sections you mark yourself against the model answer and rubric.

Suggested time 32 min 29 points0/17 attempted

Lags in fiscal policy

Budget deficit vs national debt

Balanced budget multiplier

Shifters of SRAS

Why AD slopes downward

Aggregate demand (AD)

Fiscal policy

Expansionary fiscal policy

Spending multiplier

Contractionary fiscal policy

Stagflation

What shifts LRAS

Short answer 1. Define or explain: Long-run aggregate supply (LRAS)

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: Exchange-rate effect

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: Self-correction from a recessionary gap

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: Short-run aggregate supply (SRAS)

3 pts

Free response

5 pts

This course has no free-response prompt tagged to this unit, so one from elsewhere in the course is used. It is still worth writing — the skill transfers.

SHORT FREE-RESPONSE. Assume the banking system in Kelvia has no excess reserves and the required reserve ratio is 10 percent. The central bank purchases $200 million of government bonds from commercial banks.

Calculate the immediate change in the excess reserves of the commercial banking system and explain your reasoning.

Calculate the maximum possible change in the money supply that could result, showing your work.

Indicate whether the nominal interest rate in the money market rises, falls, or stays the same, and explain why using the money market.

Explain one reason the actual change in the money supply is likely to be smaller than the maximum you calculated in part (b).