6TH EDITION ERIC CHIANG
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1. Velocity - Correct Answer: the speed at which money circulates through
the economy
2. Bonds - Correct Answer: Certificates of debt that carry a promise to pay
back the bond in full plus interest. issued by businesses or the government.
3. Stocks - Correct Answer: shares of ownership in a company
4. Quantity of money theory - Correct Answer: MSxV=PxY; M stands for
Money Supply, V stands for Velocity, P stands for Price level, and Y stands
for Real GDP
5. Price level times real GDP = - Correct Answer: nominal GDP
6. When the money supply changes, what will it effect in the quantity theory
of money? What will it not effect? - Correct Answer: It will effect the
, Price level and therefore the Nominal GDP, but not real GDP or Velocity, in
theory.
7. Contractionary fiscal policy - Correct Answer: tax increases or cuts in
government spending designed to decrease aggregate demand and reduce
inflationary pressures
8. Coordination argument - Correct Answer: downward wage and price
flexibility requires perfect information about the level of lower
compensation acceptable to other laborers and market participants
9. Disposable income - Correct Answer: income after taxes
10.Expansionary fiscal policy - Correct Answer: tax cuts or increases in
government spending designed to stimulate aggregate demand and move
the economy out of recession
11.Expenditure multiplier - Correct Answer: Keynesian concept that asserts
that a change in autonomous spending causes a more thanproportionate
change in real GDP
12.Inflationary gap - Correct Answer: equilibrium at a level of output above
potential GDP
13.Macroeconomic externality - Correct Answer: occurs when what
happens at the macro level is different from and inferior to what happens at
, the micro level; an example would be where upward sloping supply curves
for firms become a flat aggregate supply curve, illustrating that the price
level cannot fall to stimulate aggregate demand
14.Menu costs - Correct Answer: the costs to firms of changing prices
15.Philips curve - Correct Answer: the tradeoff between unemployment
and inflation
16.Recessionary gap - Correct Answer: equilibrium at a level of output
below potential GDP
17.Sticky wages and prices - Correct Answer: a situation where wages and
prices do not fall in response to a decrease in demand, or do not rise in
response to an increase in demand
18.Automatic stabilizers - Correct Answer: tax and spending rules that have
the effect of slowing down the rate of decrease in aggregate demand when
the economy slows down and restraining aggregate demand when the
economy speeds up, without any additional change in legislation
19.Balanced budget - Correct Answer: when government spending and
taxes are equal
20.Budget deficit - Correct Answer: when the federal government spends
more money than it receives in taxes in a given year
, 21.Budget surplus - Correct Answer: when the government receives more
money in taxes than it spends in a year
22.Corporate income tax - Correct Answer: a tax imposed on corporate
profits
23.Crowding out - Correct Answer: federal spending and borrowing causes
interest rates to rise and business investment to fall
24.Discretionary fiscal policy - Correct Answer: the government passes a
new law that explicitly changes overall tax or spending levels with the intent
of influencing the level or overall economic activity
25.Estate and gift tax - Correct Answer: a tax on people who pass assets to
the next generation—either after death or during life in the form of gifts
26.Excise tax - Correct Answer: a tax on a specific good—on gasoline,
tobacco, and alcohol
27.Implementation lag - Correct Answer: the time it takes for the funds
relating to fiscal policy to be dispersed to the appropriate agencies to
implement the programs