ECO 232
If the exchange rate is 5 Egyptian pounds per U.S. dollar, a watch that costs $25 US dollars costs
$125
The country of Sylvania has a GDP of $900, investment of $200, government purchases of $200, and net capital outflow of -$100. What is consumption?
$600
If purchasing power parity holds, a dollar will buy
(as many goods in foreign countries than it does in the United States)
Monetary neutrality means that a change in the money supply affects nominal variable but
(does not change real variables. Most economist think this is a good description of the economy in the long run but not the short run)
A depreciation of the U.S. real exchange rate induces U.S. consumers to buy
(induces US consumers to buy more domestic goods and fewer foreign goods)
The inflation tax refers to
(the revenue a government creates by printing money)
Suppose that a country imports $90 million worth of goods and services and exports $80 million worth of goods and services. What is the value of net exports?
-10 million$
If U.S. exports are $300 billion and U.S. imports total $350 billion, which of the following is correct?
The U.S. has a trade deficit of $50 billion.
The nominal exchange rate is the
The nominal exchange rate is the
The shoeleather cost of inflation refers to
The shoeleather cost of inflation refers to
An increase in real interest rates in the United States
encourages both US and foreign residents to buy US assets) (capital inflow)
A country purchases $3 billion of foreign-produced goods and services and sells $2 billion dollars of domestically produced goods and services to foreign countries. It has
exports of $2 billion and a trade deficit of $1 billion.
Money demand refers to
how much wealth people want to hold in liquid form
The Fisher effect says that
inflation and nominal increase to together
Capital flight refers to
large and sudden movement in demand for assets located in a country)
Based on the quantity theory equation, If P = 4 and Y = 200, then which of the following pairs of values are possible?
m=800 y=16
The variable that links the market for loanable funds and the market for foreign-currency exchange is
nx=nco
The classical dichotomy refers to the separation of
real and nominal variables
In the open-economy macroeconomic model, the market for loanable funds identity can be written as
s=nco+I
The supply of money is determined by
the Federal reserve
Menu costs refers to
the cost of more frequent prices changes induced by higher inflation
The law of one price states that
the good should sell for the same price in all markets)