GDP, Unemployment
Banking
Monetary Policy
Fiscal Policy
Multipliers, Crowding Out, and Loanable Funds
100

GDP is comprised of investment spending, government spending, net exports, and this.

What is consumer spending?

100

The denominator for calculating the money multiplier is equal to this.

What is the reserve requirement?

100

This group within the Federal Reserve meets every 6 weeks and is in charge of open market operations.

What is the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC)?

100

Fiscal policy can only be conducted by these entities.

Who is the Congress or President?

100

The government spending multiplier is equal to this formula.

What is 1/MPS or 1/(1-MPC)?

200

If Pedro the expert video cassette maker is unemployed recently due to the invention of DVD's, his unemployment is of this type.

What is structural?

200
The maximum amount of money a bank can loan out is equal to this.
What is its excess reserves?
200
Expansionary Monetary Policy consists of decreasing the reserve requirement, buying bonds, and this.
What is decreasing the discount rate?
200

When contractionary fiscal policy is pursued and the government wishes to increase taxes but decrease spending, it acquires this type of budget.

What is a surplus?

200

An increase in this causes the crowding out of investment spending in the loanable funds market.

What is the real interest rate?

300

GDP does not include second hand sales to avoid doing this.

What is double counting?

300

If Carlos deposits $100 into his checking account, then this is this the immediate change with the overall money supply.

What is no change to the money supply?

300
This is the rate that the Federal Reserve charges to banks for overnight loans.
What is the discount rate?
300

If the government wants to change taxes appropriately to exactly close an output gap, then it must take into account this to properly calculate the spending and tax multipliers.

What is the MPS?

300

When the US government increases spending, this happens to the loanable funds market.

What is the demand for loanable funds shifts right?

400
The natural rate of unemployment, found at the full employment level, is when there is none of this type of unemployment.
What is cyclical?
400

When an individual cashes a check in a bank, these increase.

What are demand deposits and reserves?

400
Contractionary monetary policy serves to close the inflationary gap through doing this.
What is decreasing the money supply.
400

Expansionary fiscal policy entails decreasing taxes and increasing this.

What is government spending?

400

Crowding out results in what happening to the value of that countries currency on the FOREX market?

What is appreciation?

500

Part-time workers who are still students are counted as this.

What is not part of the labor force?

500

When a bank makes a new loan, it is actively doing this.

What is expanding the money supply?

500

According to the Money Market Graph; as the money supply increases, this decreases.

What is the nominal interest rate?

500

The goal of contractionary fiscal policy is to close this type of output gap.

What is an inflationary gap?

500
The supply of loanable funds shifts right when individuals are more inclined to do this.
What is save?
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