In: Economics
1) Suppose the government increases spending to fund tuition assistance for qualified college students. Which of the following is likely to result?
A) Automatic stabilizers will increase the concretionary impact of the decrease in aggregate demand.
B) Automatic stabilizers will decrease the contractionary impact of the increase in aggregate demand
C) Automatic stabilizers will increase the expansionary impact of the increase in aggregate demand
D) Automatic stabilizers will decrease the expansionary impact of the increase in aggregate demand
2) In the long run, wages and prices are considered to be:
A) sticky
B) Constant
C) flexible
D) Irrelevant
Q1
Answer
Option C
C) Automatic stabilizers will increase the expansionary impact of
the increase in aggregate demand
Automatic stabilizers are effective policies at any time in the
economy and work in the opposite fo the business cycles or the
opposite of AD change.
Ex. taxes and social security payments
When an economy contracts the income decreases and unemployment
increases so the taxes decreases and spending increases.
Fiscal policy uses taxes and spending to control the economy.
Expansionary policy is used to stimulate the economy when the
economy is in a recession or its contracts. The expansionary fiscal
policy increases government spending and decreases taxes as the
automatic stabilizers do
So the policy is an expansionary policy and the automatic
stabilizer decreases the effect of it.
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Q2
Answer
Option C
Flexible
The long-run is a period where all the inputs are variable and the
changes are possible in the long run so these are flexible in the
long run and sticky in the short run.