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What is the importance of understanding debt today and how this influences the government's decisions for outlays and revenues
Describe how (un)equal incomes are distributed. Describe what market demand and supply measure and what makes them shift.
Is there an opportunity to make an arbitrage profit? If there is, explain what you will do. If there is not, why not?
Interpret recessionary and expansionary gaps within the economy. Explain the inter-workings of fiscal policy tools. Differentiate fiscal and monetary policy.
Explain in your own words the reasons why people prefer to hold money in cash balances. Give local examples
If domestic investment is given by I = 400 - 20r, where r is real interest rate in percent, what would equilibrium interest rate be if economy were closed?
Suppose that the government spends more on a missile defense program. What type of policy is this? Does this affect the aggregate demand or aggregate supply?
Between 1986 and 1990, South Africa adopted monetary targeting in its monetary policy framework, analyse why monetary targeting was abandoned.
the AD curve shifts rightwards by the amount of the original increase in expenditure" how far is this statement true? Discuss.
Explain fully and show diagrammatically how maximizing utility subject to a given budget may result in a sub-optimal outcome.
Discuss the following statements: a. 'The quantity theory of money implies that money is neutral in the long-run.'
Analyse the effects on income, the interest rate, consumption, and investment of a rise in tax revenue. Include graphs and analysis.
Define Balance of Payment and explain the components of the balance of payment for Malaysia. Define fixed exchange rate and explain its strengths & shortcomings
Discuss the spillover effects of higher mortgage rates. Which industries could feel the effects of a moderating housing market?
Was the pound weaker or stronger against the dollar? Did the dollar appreciate or depreciate versus the pound?
The prices in year two are $1.25, $2.42, and $4.15 Assume year one to be the base year: Calculate the CPIs for each year.
Provide a real or hypothetical example unemployment (e.g. "In 2019 John lost his job as a result of ...").
What is the amount of excess demand? (Assume that the number between 600 and 700 is 680 where the vertical line intersects the horizontal axis).
Explain what is meant by monetary policy. List and explain the 3 tools the Federal Reserve has to conduct monetary policy.
Explain the four stated goals of monetary policy. Are there potential tensions (or trade-offs) between some of these goals? Explain.
Draw the current equilibrium, using graphs for the entire market and for an individual pretzel stand.
In addition, 2.3% of adult population is institutionalized. Of the total labor force, 173 million are employed. What is the unemployment rate?
Briefly explain the money creation process. What is the value of this bank's excess reserves? What is the money multiplier?
In light of this, please describe how a lender can lose during inflation if the inflation is unanticipated and the loan is a fixed-interest-rate loan.