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Short-Run Aggregate Supply Curve Practice Questions
1. What happens in the short run when spending increases?
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a. Increased spending doesn’t immediately cause full inflation, so there is short run growth.
b. Increased spending immediately causes inflation, so there is no growth.
c. More spending makes prices sticky, so inflation skyrockets in the short run.
d. More spending makes prices more volatile, so inflation drops and often turns into deflation.
2. Using both a long-run aggregate supply curve and a short-run aggregate supply curve can help demonstrate what effects in a real economy?
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a. The effects of investment.
b. The effects of sticky prices and wages.
c. The effects of capitalism.
d. The effects of consumer choice.
3. A positive shock to the AD curve will cause inflation to __________ in the short run and growth to ___________ in the short run.
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a. increase/decrease
b. increase/increase
c. decrease/increase
d. decrease/decrease
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GDP
What Is Gross Domestic Product (GDP)?
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Nominal vs. Real GDP
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Real GDP Per Capita and the Standard of Living
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Splitting GDP
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The Wealth of Nations and Economic Growth
Basic Facts of Wealth
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Growth Rates Are Crucial
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What Caused the Industrial Revolution?
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Growth Miracles and Growth Disasters
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The Importance of Institutions
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Geography and Economic Growth
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The Puzzle of Growth
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Growth, Capital Accumulation, and the Economics of Ideas
Introduction to the Solow Model
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Physical Capital and Diminishing Returns
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The Solow Model and the Steady State
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Office Hours: The Solow Model
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Human Capital and Conditional Convergence
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The Solow Model and Ideas
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Office Hours: The Solow Model: Investments vs. Ideas
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The Economics of Ideas
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Patents, Prizes, and Subsidies
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The Idea Equation
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TED Talk: How Ideas Trump Crises
Savings, Investment, and the Financial System
Saving and Borrowing
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What Do Banks Do?
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Intro to Stock Markets
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Intro to the Bond Market
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Office Hours: The Bond Market
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Four Reasons Financial Intermediaries Fail
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The Great Recession
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Personal Finance
How Expert Are Expert Stock Pickers?
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Can You Beat the Market?
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Investing: Why You Should Diversify
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Who Is More Rational? You or the Market?
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Econ Duel: Rent or Buy?
Unemployment and Labor Force Participation
The Economics of Choosing the Right Career
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Defining the Unemployment Rate
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Is Unemployment Undercounted?
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Frictional Unemployment
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Structural Unemployment
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Cyclical Unemployment
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Labor Force Participation
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Taxing Work
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Women Working: What’s the Pill Got to Do With It?
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Inflation and Quantity Theory of Money
Zimbabwe and Hyperinflation: Who Wants to Be a Trillionaire?
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Measuring Inflation
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Quantity Theory of Money
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Causes of Inflation
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Costs of Inflation: Price Confusion and Money Illusion
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Costs of Inflation: Financial Intermediation Failure
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Inflation Throughout the Ages: What Would You Do?
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Office Hours: Costs of Inflation
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Why Governments Create Inflation
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Business Fluctuations
Intro to Business Fluctuations
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The Aggregate Demand Curve
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The Long-Run Aggregate Supply Curve
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Sticky Wages
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The Short-Run Aggregate Supply Curve
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Changes in Velocity
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Understanding the Great Depression
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Office Hours: Using the AD-AS Model
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Office Hours: Multiple Shocks with the AD-AS Model
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Game of Theories: The Keynesians
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Game of Theories: The Monetarists
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Game of Theories: Real Business Cycle
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Game of Theories: The Austrians
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Game of Theories: The Great Recession
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Monetary Policy and the Federal Reserve
Monetary Policy and the Fed
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The U.S. Money Supplies
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The Money Multiplier
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How the Fed Worked: Before the Great Recession
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The Federal Reserve as Lender of Last Resort
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How the Fed Works: After the Great Recession
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Monetary Policy: The Best Case Scenario
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Monetary Policy: The Negative Real Shock Dilemma
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When the Fed Does Too Much
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Introduction to Fiscal Policy
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Fiscal Policy: The Best Case Scenario
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The Limits of Fiscal Policy
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The Dangers of Fiscal Policy
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Fiscal Policy and Crowding Out
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