Lecture 4: Study Quiz

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Frage 1

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Business firms box includes:
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  • Non-Profit organizations, government agencies, and home owners
  • Savings, expenses, and capital
  • Investments and Intermediate goods & services
  • Construction, labor, and land

Frage 2

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Intermediate goods and services include:
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  • Government agencies, non-profit organizations, and home owners
  • Components (parts and materials - chemicals, metal, etc), temporary personnel agencies (cleaning, custodian services)
  • Imputation of the value of living
  • Investments of businesses and savings

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Personal Savings is a:
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  • A net of customer borrowing and drawdown of previously accumulated customer savings.
  • All of the answers are true.
  • It is negative in the case of dissaving.
  • It equals disposable personal income minus consumer spending.

Frage 4

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Why does the implication of Gross Domestic Product equaling Gross National Product imply that the net flow of foreign income is zero?
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  • The net inflow of foreign income equals the Gross National Income minus the Gross Domestic Product.
  • Gross Domestic Product equals Gross National Income plus the net inflow of foreign income.
  • None of the answers are correct.
  • Gross National Income equals Gross Domestic Product plus the net inflow of foreign income.

Frage 5

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The Net Inflow of Foreign Income include:
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  • Net return to foreign assets.
  • Net return to foreign labor.
  • Net return to foreign land.
  • Net return to foreign workers.

Frage 6

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Arrows omitted from the diagram to avoid excessive clutter are:
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  • Imported Immediate Goods and services.
  • Foreign land and assets.
  • Business loans and mortgage loans.
  • Foreign labor and markets.

Frage 7

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The currency markets not shown would include:
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  • X and M International Financial Capital.
  • Change in international reserves.
  • Net inflow of foreign income.
  • Imported intermediate goods and services.

Frage 8

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Inventory refers to:
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  • Items that haven't been produced or sold.
  • Items that have been produced and sold.
  • Items that have been produced but not yet have been sold.
  • None of the answers are true.

Frage 9

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It is not possible to produce services without a buyer but it is possible to produce goods without a buyer.
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  • True
  • False

Frage 10

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What must we distinguish between in the diagram?
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  • Production and spending in the diagram.
  • The GDP measures production while the GDP minus INV equals spending.
  • All of the above.
  • None of the above.

Frage 11

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It is not possible for production to be either greater or smaller than spending.
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  • True
  • False

Frage 12

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Inventories serves as a reservoir between production and sales.
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  • True
  • False

Frage 13

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When does an unplanned change in inventory happen?
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  • When the net inflow of foreign incomes starts to vary.
  • Whenever the number of GDP changes.
  • Whenever variables in the supply and the demand curve change.
  • Whenever sales exceed or fall short of expectation.

Frage 14

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What is an example of physical capital?
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  • Building.
  • Knowledge.
  • Money.
  • Education.

Frage 15

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What is an example of human capital?
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  • Land.
  • Money.
  • Factory.
  • Education.

Frage 16

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What is an example of financial capital?
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  • Labor
  • Money
  • Land
  • Knowledge.

Frage 17

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National Income is paid to people for providing inputs to the producing entities:
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  • Earned income or employee compensation.
  • Rent for natural resources such as a land and mineral rights.
  • Interest for financial capital.
  • Profits paid out to the owners of the physical capital.
  • Investment

Frage 18

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Why is investment important?
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  • It fluctuates up and down and pulls the economy along with it.
  • It increases the production capacity of the economy.
  • It introduces new technology to the economy.
  • It increases the productivity of workers.

Frage 19

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The difference between macro and the micro meaning of investment is for a business, investment is the acquisition of additional physical capital, which could be either newly created or bought used from a business, and only the former is investment from the macro point of view.
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  • True
  • False

Frage 20

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What is the best answer that describes the meaning of disinvestment?
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  • When you invest in a business and it becomes a deficit.
  • When you don't invest in a business
  • If a business buys a used machine from another business then the productive capacity rises for one business but falls for the other business.
  • All of the answers are true.

Frage 21

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Sale by one person to another person of stock is an investment.
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  • True
  • False

Frage 22

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In the National Economic Accounts in Change in Inventories is counted as a part of Investment.
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  • True
  • False

Frage 23

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Spending on education and job training creates human capital and is an example of:
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  • Government Spending
  • Consumer Spending
  • Investment

Frage 24

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Spending on infrastructure projects such as roads and airports are an example of:
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  • Government Spending
  • Investment
  • Consumer Spending

Frage 25

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Construction of new houses is an example of:
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  • Government Spending
  • Consumer Spending
  • Investment

Frage 26

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Investment goods are considered to be a final good and productions of investment goods counts in GDP.
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  • True
  • False

Frage 27

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How are investment goods and intermediate goods and services similar?
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  • Both are bought by business firms and other business firms.
  • All of the above.
  • Both are used in production.
  • None of the above.

Frage 28

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Why are intermediate goods and services and investment goods treated differently when it comes to GDP?
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  • The number of input.
  • Their effect on the economy.
  • Their number of contributed outputs and their productive lifetime.
  • Their value.

Frage 29

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Fixed Investment Includes:
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  • Non-residential fixed investment
  • Foreign-trade fixed investment
  • Changes inventory
  • residential fixed investment

Frage 30

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One reason to divide GDP into its components is to facilitate the explanation of the size of GDP and the changes that occur over time.
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  • True
  • False

Frage 31

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What is one type of comparison that is used today for GDP?
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  • USA today versus the USA earlier in history.
  • Foreign Countries versus foreign countries.
  • Canada versus China.
  • All of the above.

Frage 32

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What are some adjustments required to create a fair comparison of GDP?
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  • Use real GDP to adjust for inflation.
  • Use components of GDP use to create division to monitor changes.
  • Using different components to respond to different influences.
  • Use per capita GDP to adjust differences in population size.

Frage 33

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What is ignored by GDP?
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  • Pollution
  • Working Conditions
  • Labor and marketing laws
  • Depletion of Natural Resources
  • Leisure time
  • Building nuclear bombs.

Frage 34

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The Underground Economy is reported for calculations of GDP.
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  • True
  • False

Frage 35

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Household work and child care are not counted in the GDP.
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  • True
  • False
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