Expansion
Contraction
Peak
Trough
Wildcard
100
What is the phase of a business cycle that occurs after a trough and before a peak?
What is Expansion
100

A contraction is upward or downward sloping?

What is downward sloping?

100
Define Peak
What is when the expansion transitions into a contraction phase
100
Define trough.
What is the end of a period of declining business activity and the transition to expansion.
100

Measures short-term economic activity?

What is real GDP?

200
Another name for expansion.
What is economic recovery?
200
What marks the beginning of a recession in the business cycle
What is Peak
200
An indicator of a peak beginning
What is when companies start to report flat revenues?
200

What happens to the unemployment rate during a trough?

What is it reaches its highest?

200

Economic growth occurs when?

What is the business cycle is experiencing an expansion?

300

Another word for expansion that lasts for 6 months?

What is boom?

300

What happens when the GDP turns negative for 6 months?

What is a recession

300
When can you tell when a peak exactly occurs.
What is it's impossible?
300

Troughs are beneficial?

What is false?

300

Who measures the business cycle

What is the ABS?

400

During an expansion, what would you expect to happen to unemployment?

What is a decrease in unemployment?

400

What type of budgetary policy happens in a Contraction?

What is contractionary fiscal policy

400

What would happen to real GDP during a peak?

What is it stops?

400

The GDP growth during a trough

What is very low?

400

Who manages the business cycle?

What is the government and the RBA?

500

When do expansion happen ?

What is when the RBA lowers interest rates and buys back bonds in the open market to add money to the financial system?

500

What would you expect to happen to economic growth during a contraction?

What is decreasing?

500

Peaks are beneficial to the economy?

What is it depends, but usually no?

500

Troughs will generate employment growth?

What is false?

500

What is the biggest factor that causes a depression?

What is consumer confidence