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EC 202 ECON TOPHAT QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

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As banks began to fail in the early months of the Great Depression, the Federal
Reserve


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allowed banks to fail




What is the effect of a recession in Japan on the exchange rate


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demand shifts to the left depreciating the dollar

,Diversification


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spreading out investments to reduce risk




seignorage


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government revenue obtained from printing currency
The profits made by government through the act of printing money (or
creating reserves)




When a country's currency is under speculative attack, it can defend the
currency by,


a. raising domestic interest rates;
b. using its reserves of foreign currency to buy its own currency;
c. selling its own currency;
d. reducing interest rates;
e. a. and b


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e. a and b
=
a. raising domestic interest rates;
b. using its reserves of foreign

,Arbitrage


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the purchase of securities in one market for immediate resale in another to
profit from a price discrepancy
Trying to profit through the purchase and sale of assets




Tighter monetary policy indirectly does which if the following??
a. Raises interest rates
b. Reduces private investment and purchases of goods
c. Reduces output
d. All of the above
e. None of the above


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D. All of the above




When the wage of a worker rises


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, NOT B - works more due to the income effect. There is no substitution
effect.

I think the answer should include "works less due to income effect. there is
no substitution effect" but I'm not sure.
SUBSTITUTION: buy less, save more
higher rate of return makes current consumption more expensive
INCOME: buy more, save less
higher rate of return with higher real income




When non-wage income rises, the worker


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D - works less due to the income effect. There is no substitution effect.




substitution effect


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the change in the quantity demanded of a good that results from a change
in price, making the good more or less expensive relative to other goods
that are substitutes
1 + R is the price of current consumption
higher rate of return makes current consumption more expensive (buy less
and save more)




The Federal Reserve begins a major open market operation with the purchase of
$100 billion in bonds. (The exchange rate is measured in foreign currency per
dollar.) We would expect

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