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.
Budget deficit vs national debt
Long-run aggregate supply (LRAS)
Self-correction from an inflationary gap
Marginal propensity to consume (MPC)
Marginal propensity to save (MPS)
Short-run aggregate supply (SRAS)
Shifters of AD
Lags in fiscal policy
Short-run equilibrium
Expansionary fiscal policy
Fiscal policy
Interest-rate effect
Short answer 1. Define or explain: Long-run equilibrium
3 ptsShort answer 2. Define or explain: Wealth effect
3 ptsShort answer 3. Define or explain: What shifts LRAS
3 ptsShort answer 4. Define or explain: Aggregate demand (AD)
3 ptsFree response
6 ptsThis 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.
Loriland is producing below full employment (a recessionary gap).
Draw a correctly labeled AD-AS graph showing the current short-run equilibrium relative to full-employment output Yf.
Identify one fiscal policy to close the gap.
Using the money market, show and explain the effect of an expansionary open-market operation on the nominal interest rate.
Explain how that interest-rate change affects AD and real GDP.