Correct Answers
As with goods, when the supply of money increases faster than does the demand, - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔the value of the money falls
Bank of North America - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔limited-liability corporation, and could be
viewed as the nation's first central bank
Commodity money - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔money which has value as a medium of exchange
equal to its value as a commodity- animal skins, whiskey, wheat, gold
Fiat money - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔money which has value as a medium of exchange greater
than its value as a commodity- paper money
Gresham's Law - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔"bad money drives out good money."
recession - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔a period of declining real incomes and rising unemployment
depression - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔a severe recession
model of aggregate demand and aggregate supply - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔the model that most
economists use to explain short-run fluctuations in economic activity around its long-run trend
aggregate-demand curve - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔a curve that shows the quantity of goods and
services that households, firms, the government, and customers abroad want to buy at each
price level
, aggregate-supply curve - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔a curve that shows the quantity of goods and
services that firms choose to produce and sell at each price level
natural level of output - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔the production of goods and services that an
economy achieves in the long run when unemployment is at its normal rate
stagflation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔A period of falling output and rising prices
theory of liquidity preference - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Keynes's theory that the interest rate
adjusts to bring money supply and money demand into balance
fiscal policy - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔the setting of the level of government spending and
taxation by government policymakers
multiplier effect - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔the additional shifts in aggregate demand that result
when expansionary fiscal policy increases income and thereby increases consumer spending
crowding-out effect - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔the offset in aggregate demand that results when
expansionary fiscal policy raises the interest rate and thereby reduces investment spending
automatic stabilizers - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔changes in fiscal policy that stimulate aggregate
demand when the economy goes into a recession without policymakers having to take any
deliberate action
money - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔the set of assets in an economy that people regularly use to buy
goods and services from other people