Chapter 31 The Aggregate Expenditures Model Answer Key
Multiple Choice Questions
1. John Maynard Keynes created the aggregate expenditures model based primarily on what
historical event?
A. bank panic of 1907
2. The aggregate expenditures model is built upon which of the following assumptions?
D. Government spending policy has no ability to affect the level of output.
3. A private closed economy includes
A.
households, businesses, and government, but not international trade.
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D. households only.
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Learning Objective: 31-01 Explain how sticky prices relate to the aggregate expenditures
model.
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Assumptions and Simplifications
4. In the United States from 1929 to 1933, real GDP and the unemployment rate _.
D. declined by 40 percent; rose to 50 percent
5. In the aggregate expenditures model, it is assumed that investment
A.
automatically changes in response to changes in real GDP.
6. All else equal, a large decline in the real interest rate will shift the
A.
investment demand curve leftward.
Refer to the diagrams. Curve A
A.
is an investment schedule, and curve B is a consumption of fixed capital schedule.
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Learning Objective: 31-02 Explain how an economys investment schedule is derived from the
investment demand curve and an interest rate.
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Consumption and Investment Schedules
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8.
Refer to the diagrams. Other things equal, curve B will shift upward when
A.
the level of GDP increases.
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9.
Refer to the diagrams. Other things equal, an interest rate decrease will
A.
shift curve A to the right and shift curve B upward.
10.
Refer to the diagrams. Other things equal, an interest rate increase will
A.
shift curve A to the right and shift curve B upward.
11.
Refer to the diagrams. Other things equal, an interest rate reduction coupled with a rightward
shift in curve A will
D. reduce GDP.
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investment demand curve and an interest rate.
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Consumption and Investment Schedules
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12.
Refer to the diagrams. The location of curve B depends on the
A.
level of real GDP.
13.
The level of aggregate expenditures in the private closed economy is determined by the
D. intersection of the saving and consumption schedules.
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Learning Objective: 31-03 Illustrate how economists combine consumption and investment to
depict an aggregate expenditures schedule for a private closed economy and how that schedule
can be used to demonstrate the economys equilibrium level of output where the total quantity of
goods produced equals the total quantity of goods purchased.
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Equilibrium GDP: C Ig = GDP
14.
Possible Levels of Domestic Output and Income (GDP = DI)
$320
330
340
350
360
370
380
The table gives data for a private closed economy. The MPS is
A. 7/10.
15.
Possible Levels of Domestic Output and Income (GDP = DI)
$320
330
340
350
360
370
380
The table gives data for a private closed economy. At the $370 billion level of DI, the APS is
approximately
D. 16 percent.
16.
Possible Levels of Domestic Output and Income (GDP = DI)
$320
330
340
350
360
370
380
The table gives data for a private closed economy. If gross investment is $12 billion, the
equilibrium level of GDP will be
A. $380.
17.
Refer to the diagram for a private closed economy. The equilibrium level of GDP is
A. $400.
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goods produced equals the total quantity of goods purchased.
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Equilibrium GDP: C Ig = GDP
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18.
Refer to the diagram for a private closed economy. At the equilibrium level of GDP,
investment and saving are both
D. $40.
19.
Refer to the diagram for a private closed economy. The $400 level of GDP is
A.
that output at which saving is zero.
Refer to the diagram for a private closed economy. Unplanned changes in inventories will be
zero
D. only at the $400 level of GDP.
21.
Refer to the diagram, which applies to a private closed economy. The APC is equal to 1 at
income level
A.
J.
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depict an aggregate expenditures schedule for a private closed economy and how that schedule
can be used to demonstrate the economys equilibrium level of output where the total quantity of
goods produced equals the total quantity of goods purchased.
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Equilibrium GDP: C Ig = GDP
Type: Graph
22.
Refer to the diagram, which applies to a private closed economy. If aggregate expenditures are
C + Ig2, the amount of saving at income level J is
A. LK.
23.
Refer to the diagram, which applies to a private closed economy. If gross investment is Ig1, the
equilibrium GDP and the level of consumption will be
A.
H and HB, respectively.
Type: Graph
24. Other things equal, the slope of the aggregate expenditures schedule will increase as a
result of
A.
a decline in the size of the inflationary gap.
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Learning Objective: 31-03 Illustrate how economists combine consumption and investment to
depict an aggregate expenditures schedule for a private closed economy and how that schedule
can be used to demonstrate the economys equilibrium level of output where the total quantity of
goods produced equals the total quantity of goods purchased.
Test Bank: I
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Equilibrium GDP: C Ig = GDP
25. In a private closed economy, when aggregate expenditures equal GDP,
A.
consumption equals investment.
26. In a private closed economy, when aggregate expenditures exceed GDP,
A.
GDP will decline.
27. If an unintended increase in business inventories occurs at some level of GDP, then GDP
A.
entails a rate of aggregate expenditures in excess of the rate of aggregate production.
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B.
may be either above or below the equilibrium output.
C.
is too low for equilibrium.
D. is too high for equilibrium.
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Learning Objective: 31-04 Discuss the two other ways to characterize the equilibrium level of
real GDP in a private closed economy: saving = investment, and no unplanned changes in
inventories.
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Other Features of Equilibrium GDP
28. The equilibrium level of GDP is associated with
A.
an excess of planned investment over saving.
29.
Which aggregate expenditure schedule AE in the diagram for a private closed economy implies
the largest MPC, assuming investment is the same at each level of income?
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A.
AE4
B.
AE3
C.
AE2
D.
AE1
30.
Which two aggregate expenditure schedules AE in the diagram for a private closed economy
have the same MPC, assuming investment is the same at each level of income?
D.
AE3 and AE4
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Equilibrium GDP: C Ig = GDP
Type: Graph
31.
Which aggregate expenditure schedule(s) AE in the diagram for a private closed economy
represent(s) the highest level of investment, assuming investment is the same at each level of
income and the level of consumption at zero income is the same for each schedule?
A. AE4 only
32.
If at some level of GDP the economy is experiencing an unintended decrease in
inventories,
A.
the aggregate level of saving will decline.
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33.
If an unintended increase in business inventories occurs,
A.
we can expect aggregate production to be unaffected.
34.
Assume that in a private closed economy, consumption is $240 billion and investment is
$50 billion, both at the $280 billion level of domestic output. Thus,
A.
saving is $10 billion.