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WorksheetsEconomics - Midterm Exam 2019
Total questions: 48
Worksheet time: 2hrs 36mins
Definition of Economics
The study of how society uses its limited resources
Concerned with the production, consumption, and transfer of wealth.
The allocation of scarce resources
All of the above
What best describes scarcity
Malnutrition that affects sailors when they are out at sea for long periods of time.
What you need to survive
Dealing with limited resources and unlimited wants.
The bottom level of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
As price goes up, quantity supplied increases. This is what?
The law of demand
the law of scarcity
the law of supply
Keeping it real
Price and quantity demanded are inversely related. This describes the law of demand. What does this mean?
As price goes up, demand goes up
As price goes down, demand goes down
As price goes up, demand goes down
Demand is indifferent to price
England can produce 10 units of what in 2 hours. Portugal can produce 20 units of wheat in 2 hours. With regard to wheat production, Portugal has what...?
Absolute advantage in wheat production
Comparative advantage in what prioduction
Equality in wheat production
none of the
When calculating comparative advantage between two countries you are determining what?
Opportunity costs
Absolute costs
Who has the best quality product
Who has the coolest national flag
Coke and Pepsi are considered what?
Compliments
Substitiutes
Leading indicators
Lagging indicators
If the price for Coke goes up significantly, the demand for Pepsi will likely do what?
Will increase or go up
Will decrease or go down
Stay the same
None of the above
Peanut butter and jelly can be considered what?
Substitutes
Compliments
Measure of inflation
measure of unemployment
Assuming that Oreos and milk are compliments; if the price of Oreos goes down significantly, the demand for milk will likely do what
Go up
Go down
Stay the same
None of the above
The Law of Demand relates to how _________ affects quantity demanded.
Substitutes
Price
Compliments
Supply
The price for margarine (a butter substitute) goes down. The demand curve for butter will do what?
Shift to the right
Shift to the left
Stay the same
None of the above
There is a baby boom in a country. How would this affect the demand for diapers.
Demand for diapers would increase
Demand for diapers would decrease
demand would stay the same
the supply for diapers would decrease
If population were to decrease. the demand curve for goods and services would likely do what?
Shift to the right
Shift to the left
stay the same
none of the above
If refinery costs for oil production increase, the supply curve for oil will do what?
Shift to the left
Shift to the right
Stay the same
None of the above
When your income goes up demand for things that are of poor quality typically go down. These types of goods and services are considered what?
Normal goods
Inferior goods
Luxury goods
Necessary goods
If quantity demanded is greater than quantity supplied you will have a what?
Shortage
Surplus
Equilibrium
All of the above
If the price of a good is currently set above the equilibrium price you will have a ________ until price goes down and/or demand increases.
Shortage
Surplus
Equilibrium
All of the above
A change or shift in supply would occur in all of the following market conditions except what?
Cost of inputs
Number of sellers in the market
A producer selling at a higher price
Taxes or subsidies
Unions were started to combat poor working conditions for employees after the onset of the industrial revolution. Which of the following makes the most sense.
They increase labor costs and decrease supply
They decrease labor costs and increase supply
They have no effect on supply costs
Taxes do which of the following?
Raise purchase prices and reduce the quantity supplied
Decrease purchase prices
They do not affect prices
None of the above
These Economic systems typically have market inefficiencies and low worker productivity.
Market economy
Command economy
Mixed economy
A tribe in the Amazon forest that pays people with raccoon pelts probably has what type of economy?
Traditional
Market
Command
Mixed
Canada and the United States have what type of economy?
Command
Mixed
Traditional
Term to describe a "hands-off" approach by the government towards the economy.
Chacun son gout
Laissez Faire
The invisible hand
Not yours! Mine!
Another term for a market economy
Communism
Dictatorship
Capitalism
Socialism
Households provide all of the following to the economy except...
Labor
Capital
Land
Inflation
Exports contribute positively to a country's GDP
True
False
Real GDP excludes rising prices
True
False
The largest component of GDP
Consumer consumption
Business Investment
Government spending
Exports
If a firm produces inside the border of the U.S. it is...
Included in GDP
Is not included in GDP
The U.S. has a negative trade balance. This means what?
Exports exceed imports
Imports exceed exports
Exports are equal to imports
GDP is negative
GDP = C+I+G+(X-M); what does G stand for?
Goods
Government spending
Gratuity
Green production
A business that has two or more owners with little government regulation
Employee owned
Partnership
sole proprietorship
Corporation
The most you can lose is your investment. This would characterize what type of business.
Sole propritorship
General Partnership
Employee Owend
Corporation
If you have a business but had to pay a fee to a "parent" corporation in to obtain the rights to own and operate it you probably own a...
Corporation
Sole proprietorship
Partnership
Franchise
The shape of supply curve in the long run
Horizontal
Vertical
Slope up and to the right
Slope down and to the right
The total demand for all goods and services
Aggregate demand
Aggregate supply
Business cycle
Expansion
Reasons the total demand curve slopes down and to the right.
Wealth effect
Interest rate effect
Foreign exchange effect
All of the above
If interest rates go down, then interest rate sensitive spending will do what?
Go down
Go up
Spending is indifferent to rates
None of the above
An example of interest rate sensitive spending
Financing the purchase of a new car
Buying a house with Cash
Buying groceries
Selling your baseball card collection
The stock market is an example of a _______ _______.
Lagging indicator
Coincident indicator
Leading indicator
Bum indicator
The CPI is a _______ _______, which measures inflation.
Lagging indicator
Leading indicator
Coincident Indicator
Total indicator
The most important Coincident indicator which measures economic growth.
GDP
Stock market
The heat index
NASDAQ
Two main assumptions we make when discussing business cycles and GDP growth
Death and Taxes
fluctuating markets and inflation
Unemployment and inflation
Increasing technology and an increasing population
If consumer confidence increases, what will happen to the aggregate demand curve
shift to the left
shift to the right
remain unchanged
implode
What is the relationship between inflation and unemployment in the long run.
if inflation goes up, unemployment goes up
if inflation goes down, unemployment goes down
if inflation goes up unemployment remains stable
there is no correlation because in the long run Aggregate Supply is indifferent to prices
We always have some level of unemployment, usually between 4% and 6%. According to economics, why?
Structural and Frictional unemployment
Structural and Cyclical unemployment
Cyclical and Frictional unemployment
There are always lazy people
