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Mr. Worldwide

100

This occurs when the economy is producing at less than its potential output.

What is a recessionary gap?

100

This Micro curve hits its minimum when marginal cost intersects it from below

What is the average total cost (ATC) curve?

100

The student union acts as one of these because there is no competition and high barriers to entry.

What is a monopoly?

100

This occurs when the quantity supplied of a good or service exceeds the quantity demanded at the prevailing market price.

What is a surplus?

100

When a country imposes a tariff on imported goods, this is the effect it has on domestic prices.

What is an increase in domestic prices?

200

 During a recession, the government can use this fiscal policy tool to increase economic activity.

What is increasing government spending?

200

This curve is a downward-sloping beauty that lets you pick between inflation and unemployment.

What is the short-run Phillips Curve?

200

This type of firm earns zero economic profit in the long run and is completely forgettable in the market, sort of like me at prom.

What is a perfectly competitive firm?

200

This is the term for a situation in which an economy experiences high inflation and high unemployment at the same time.

What is Stagflation

200

This economic concept describes the ability of a country to produce a good at a lower opportunity cost than another country.

What is comparative advantage?

300

When an ample reserve market is overheating, the central bank may use this tool to decrease the money supply.

What is raising IOR?

300

On the graph of the loanable funds market, if inflation expectations increase, this curve shifts left.

What is the supply of loanable funds?

300

This curve in Macro is vertical in the long run because wages and prices are flexible, unlike your schedule during AP season.

What is the long-run aggregate supply curve?

300

This term describes a situation where resources are allocated in such a way that no one can be made better off without making someone else worse off.

What is socially optimal?

300

When a country has a higher export value than import value, it is said to have this type of balance in its trade.

What is a trade surplus?

400

If the government borrows to fund increased public spending during a recession, what happens to long-term capital investment?

What is lower capital investment?

400

This curve seems to make the shape of a banana, and the bigger the area inside the banana, the more inequality there is.

What is the Lorenz curve

400

The clothes at the Spirit Store are examples of this type of good.

What is a private good?

400

What curve on the AD/AS model shifts during a recession to return equilibrium to the long run, if the government doesn’t get involved

What is SRAS?

400

When a country imposes a tax on imports to protect domestic industries, it is using what kind of trade policy tool?

What is a tariff?

500

When unemployment is high during a recession, this type of unemployment increases due to a slowdown in economic activity.

What is cyclical unemployment?

500

This curve is not traditionally shown on the perfect competition firm graph for AP Micro.

What is the average fixed cost (AFC) curve?

500

 In the short run, firms can earn economic profit or losses. But this feature of perfectly competitive markets ensures it won’t last, just like your optimism during FRQs.

What is free entry and exit?

500

These financial instruments, including stocks and bonds, are traded in financial markets and can be used by governments and corporations to raise capital.

What are securities?

500

When a government implements a tariff, the resulting price increase typically leads to an effect on consumer surplus and producer surplus.

Consumer surplus decreases, and producer surplus increases.

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