The __ is the group of administrative bodies through which the Sate complies, or enforces the policy or will expressed in the laws of the coutry
Public sector
Goverment
The other answers are correct
Through direct administration, the service offered ___
Has a specific requirement to have commercial success criteria
Doesn't have a specific requirement to have commercial success criteria
The other answers are correct
A limiting form of organization of the public sector is ___, with a private company providing all the service on behalf of the government
Complete recruiment
Complete subcontracting
Total recruiment
Supply policies would attemp to reduce ___ through labor or other reforms
Income
The other answers are correct
Costs
Fiscal policy is linked to the ___ economy
Monetarist
Neoclassical
Keynesian
The Treasury bills, and State bonds and obligations are titles that represent a participation of the ___ Debt
Public
The other two answers are correct
Private
What are tariffs?
A tool
A goal
The other answers are correct
___ may be subject to dynamic inconsistency
Political rules
Discretionary policies
The other answers are correct
The Spanish Budget is preparated every ___
Two years
Three years
Year
The Government presents the budgets to the Congress, which first votes on their generic admission or the amendment to the entirety, which is successful entail their return to the Government. Once this process has been passed, the capacity for alteration by partial amendments is subject to the non-alteration of the budget balance. Later they go the the Senate, which makes a second reading, but whose ability to alter them is very limited with a final referral to ___
Congress
Government
Minister Council
In what budget would the Spanish Data Protection Agency be?
In the State
In the State Agencies
In the Autonomous Bodies of the General State Administration
In what budget would the Economic and Social Council be?
In the Autonomous Bodies of the General State Administration
In the State Agencies
In the State
Within the public income form ___ taxes woul be the tax on foreign traffic
The other answers are correct
Direct
Indirect
Within the patrimonail income we would have ___ and profit shares
Dividends
Quotes
The other answers are correct
Financial expenses would be within public expenses for ___ operations
Capital
Current
The other answers are correct
The expansionary fiscal policy stance will lead to a higher ___ budget
Surplus
Deficit
Balanced
The multiplier effect is the idea that an initial change in aggregate demand causes a change in aggregate output for an economy that is ___ of the initial change
The other answers are correct
Dividend
Multiple
According to Say's Law, is it possible that there are unsold surpluses?
No
Yes
The other answers are correct
In theory, fiscal stimulous ___ inflation when using resources that otherwise would have been idle
The other answers are correct
Doesn't cause
Causes
The welfare state is a model in which the ___ assumes primary responsability for the welfare of its citizens
The other answers are correct
King
State
In Great Britain, in 1942, Social Security and United Services were created by Sir ___
William Beveridge
William Hill
William Miller
In Spain in ___ the Law of Bases of Social Security appears
1945
1963
1955
Which minister created the current welfare state in Scandinavia?
Kart Kristian Steincke
Gustav Moller
The other answers are correct
The provision of well-being in the contemporary world tends to be more ___ in countries with more strongly developed economies
Advanced
Delayed
The other answers are correct
How is social spending in Japan?
High
Limited
The other answers are correct
Examples of public sector activity range from ___ Securiry, administering urban-planning, or organizing national defense and justice
Social
Matriarcal
Patriarchal
Through direct administration, production decisions are determined by the ___
Senate
Government
Congress
Who prefers a greater number of projects or state companies in the economy?
The conservatives
The socialists
The liberals
___ policy is basically made up of fiscal and monetary policies
Industrial
Regulation
Stabilization
Fiscal policy uses government spending and ___ to guide the economy
Tariffs
The other answers are correct
Taxes
What is inflation?
A goal
The other two answers are correct
A tool
What are exchange rates?
A tool
A goal
The other answers are correct
What policies can be more credible, transparent and easy to anticipate?
The discretionary ones
The ruled-bases ones
The other answers are correct
The Spanish Budget is preparated by the Ministry of ___
Energy
Public administrations
Finance
In the event that the budgets are not approved, ___
The extension of the budget from the previous year
An increase of 3% over the previous year
An increase equal to the inflation of the previous year
In what budget would the Ombudsman be?
In the State Agencies
In the State
In the Autonomous Bodies of the General State Administration
In what budget would the Spanish Institute of Foreign Trade be?
In the Autonomous Bodies of the General State Administration
In the State Agencies
In the State
Within the fees, public prices and other income would be other income from ___ of services
The other answers are correct
Goods
Provision
Within the patrimonial income we would have the income of ___ state
Real
Current
The other answers are correct
Transfers among subsector are ___
Current transfers
The other answers are correct
Capital transfers
A ___ fiscal policy happenss when net government spending is reduced either through higher tax revenue or by reducing government spending or a combination of both
Expansive
Restrictive
Neutral
The existence of a multiplier effect was initially proposed by ___
Ralph George Washington
Ralph George Rockford
Ralph George Hawtrey
Keynes argued that the aggregate demand for goods might be insufficient during economic ___
Recessions
Expansions
The other answers are correct
If a fiscal stimulous employs a worker who would otherwise have been unemployed, ___ inflationary effect
The other answers are correct
There isn't
There is
Welfare state can mean the creation of a ___ level "social safety net" of various forms of welfare
The other answers are correct
Maximum
Minimum
Sir William Beveridge indicated that "All people of working age should pay a ___ contribution to Social Security"
Weekly
Monthly
Daily
The objective of the Law of Bases of Social Security was ___ model
The other answers are correct
An unitary
A plural
When was the current welfare state created in Scandinavia?
In the 1950s
In the 1940s
In the 1930s
___ countries tend to have limited resources for social services
Poor
Rich
The other answers are correct
How is social spending in Denmark?
Limited
High
The other answers are correct
One of the forms of organization of the public sector is through ___ administrations
Direct
Indirect
None of the other answers is correct
Where is there greater commercial freedom?
In both equally
In state-owned companies
In direct administration
Who prefers minimal state participation in the economy?
The conservatives
The liberals
The socialists
___ policy refers to tariffs, trade agreements and the international institutions that govern them
Fiscal
Monetary
Commercial
The ___ is defined as the difference between public expenditures and public revenues
Superavit
The other answers are correct
Deficit
What is the interest rate?
A tool
The other two answers are correct
A goal
There may be pressure on the government to reduce inflation, reduce unemployment, and lower interest rates while maintaing the stability of the currency. If all of these are selected as short-term goals, then the policy is probably ___
Incoherent
Coherent
The other answers are correct
What kind of policies are those of fixed exchange rates?
The discretionary ones
The ruled-bases ones
The other answers are correct
The Spanish Budget is approved in the project phase on the ___
Congress
Senate
Minister Council
In what budget would that of the House of His Majesty the King be?
In the State
In the State Agencies
In the Autonomous Bodies of the General State Administration
In what budget would the National Intelligence Center be?
In the State
In the State Agencies
In the Autonomous Bodies of the General State Administration
In what budget would the Nuclear Safety Council be?
In the Autonomous Bodies of the General State Administration
In the State Agencies
In the State
Within the fees, public prices and other income would be other income of ___ goods
The other answers are correct
Barter
Sale
Within the patrimonial income would be the products of ___ and special uses
Operating grants
Confessions
The other answers are correct
___ policy is the use of government spending and revenue collection to influence the economy
Monetary
Fiscal
The other answers are correct
In a restrictive fiscal policy ___
G greater than T
G smaller than T
G equals T
The existence of a multiplier effect was initially proposed in ___
1936
1933
1931
Keynes argued that one of the solutions to the depression was to stimulate the economy through ___ in interest rates
A reduction
An increase
The other answers are correct
If a fiscal stimulous employs a worker who would otherwise have had a job, ___ inflationary effect
The other answers are correct
There is
There isn't
In the period following ___, many countries in Europe went from a partial or selective provision of social services to a relative complete coverage of the populations
First World War
Vietnam War
Second World War
Sir William Beveridge indicated that "All people of working age should pay a weekly contribution to Social Security. In return, benefits would be paid to people who were ___"
The other answers are correct
Retired or widows
Sick or unemployed
The General Law of Social Security in Spain is ___
1965
1966
1964
A welfare state makes citizens ___
Independ and more inclined to work
The other answers are correct
Dependent and less inclined to work
There is ___ correlation between economic results and welfare spending
Little
A lot
The other answers are correct
There is a slight ___ correlation between increased (broad) spending on social services ans higher GDP per capita
Negative
Positive
The other answers are correct
One of the forms of organization of the public sector is through ___ companies
State-owned
Private-owned
None of the other answers is correct
State-owned companies ___
The other answers are correct
Operate according to commercial criteria
Don't operate according to commercial criteria
Who favors state participation in some aspects of the economy but not in others?
The liberals
The conservatives
The socialists
One of the types of economic policies are the ___ policies of income, property or wealth
Increase
Developing
Redistribution
___ policy refers to the manipulation of taxes to collect government revenue
Usurer
The other answers are correct
Tax
What is unemployment?
A goal
The other two answers are correct
A tool
The normal consequence of reducing inflation is ___ unemployment
Increasing
Decreasing
The other answers are correct
What kind of policies is the limit of the Public Deficit in the constitutions?
The discretionary ones
The ruled-bases ones
The other answers are correct
The Government presents the budgets to the ___
Council of State
Senate
Congress
In what budget would that of the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation be?
In the Autonomous Bodies of the General State Administration
In the State
In the State agencies
In what budget would that of the Court of Auditors be?
In the State Agencies
In the State
In the Autonomous Bodies of the General State Administration
In what budget would the Prado Museum be?
In the Autonomous Bodies of the General State Administration
In the State Agencies
In the State
Within the fees, public prices and other income would be the reimbursement of ___ operations
The other answers are correct
Capital
Current
Within the sale of ___ investments we would have those of land
Real
Fiduciaries
The other answers are correct
A ___ policy stance implies a balanced budget
Restrictive
Neutral
Expansive
A restrictive fiscal policy would lead to a higher ___
Deficit
Surplus
Balanced budget
The existence of a multiplier effect is particularly associated with the ___ economy
Monetarist
Classical
Keynesian
A central conslusion of the ___ economy is that, in some situations, no strong automatic mechanism, derived from the functioning of the market, moves production and employemnt towards levels of full employment
Keynesian
Classical
Neoclassical
In economics, the ___ effect is any reduction in private consumption or investment that happens due to an increase in government spending
The other answers are correct
Displacement
Erradication
Pensions are ___
In kind welfare services
The other answers are correct
Welfare benefits collection
The Universal Family Subsidy was a plan to give benefits to parents, encouraging people to have children allowing them to care for and support a family. This was a particular beneficial after ___ when Britain's population was declining
Second World War
First World War
Vietnam World War
Welfare systems have been developing intensively since the end of the Second World War. At the end of the cnetury, due to their restructuring, part of their responsibilities began to be channeled through ___ who became important provider of social services
The other answers are correct
Non-governmental organizations
Governmental organizations
A critique of the welfare state is one that characterizes it as a ___ of property or work
The other answers are correct
Rent
Stole
Higher levels of social spending in the European Union ___ associated with lower growth, lower productivity or higher unemployment
Aren't
Are
The other answers are correct
The __ is the group of administrative bodies through which the Sate complies, or enforces the policy or will expressed in the laws of the coutry
Public sector
Goverment
The other answers are correct
In the organization of the public sector through state-owned companies, production decisions ___
The other answers are correct
Are generally taken over by the government
Aren't generally taken over by the government
___ policy refers to the actions that government take in the economic field
Educational
Economical
Linguistic
One of the types of economic policies is the ___ policies of monopolies or oligopolies
Prohibition
Maintenance
Regulation
___ policy is concerned with the amount of money in circulation and, consequently, interest rates and inflation
Fiscal
Tax
Monetary
What is the money supply?
A tool
The other two answers are correct
A goal
The normal consequence of reducing inflation is ___ interest rates
Increasing
Decreasing
The other answers are correct
What kind of policy is the Stability and Growth Pact?
The discretionary ones
The ruled-bases ones
The other answers are correct
The Government presents the budgets to the Congress, which first votes on their generic admission or the ___ amendments
The other answers are correct
Partial
Total
In what budget would the Instituto Cervantes be?
In the State agencies
In the State
In the Autonomous Bodies of the General State Administration
In what budget would the State Tax Administration Agency be?
In the State
In the State agencies
In the Autonomous Bodies of the General State Administration
Within the public income from ___ taxes would be the income tax
Indirect
Direct
The other answers are correct
Within current transfers we would have those of ___ agencies
The other answers are correct
Administrative
Autonomous
Within the sale of real investments we would have the reimbursements for ___ operations
Capital
Current
The other answers are correct
In a neutral fiscal policy stance ___
G is higher than T
G is equal to T
G is lower than T
John Maynard Keynes was one of the leading proponents of fiscal policy in the ___
1950s
1930s
1940s
Some economic schools however rejected, or downplayed the importance of multiplier effects, particularly in the ___ term
The other answers are correct
Short
Long
___ is an economic situation in which inflation and economic stagnation happen simultaneously and remain for a period of time
Stagflation
Inflatal stagnation
The other answers are correct
If the increase in government spending is financed by an increase in taxes, the increase in taxes would tend to reduce the ___
The other answers are correct
Private consumption
Private investment
Unemployment cash benefits are ___
In kind welfare services
The other answers are correct
Welfare benefits collection
The Universal Family Subsidy may have helped lead to the ___ boom
Baby
Up
Wealthy
The welfare state model that requires a lot of bureaucratic control over affected people, with maximum interference in their lives to establish who is "in need" and minimize fraud is dominating in ___
The other answers are correct
The United States
The Scandinavian Countries
How is social spending in Australia?
The other answers are correct
High
Limited
One of the ways of organizing the public sector is through the complete entrustment or complete ___
Subcontracting
Overcontracting
None of the other answers is correct
In the organization of the public sector through state-owned companies, the goals ___
The other answers are correct
Can be established for them by the government
Are established by the same companies
Economic policies are often influenced by international institutions such as the ___
Social Guarantee Fund
International Monetary Fund
Salary Guarantee Fund
One of the types of economic policies is the ___ policies for the promotion of strategic business sectors, etc.
Conjunctural
Structural
Industrial
Type of ___ is the money price
Inflation
Tax
Interest
What are taxes?
A tool
The other two answers are correct
A goal
What policies should we use?
The other answers are correct
Demand policies
Supply policies
Some political rules may be imposed by external bodies, for example the Exchange Rate Mechanism for the currency of ___ when it intervenes in an Economy
United Nations
International Monetary Fund
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
The Government presents the budgets to the Congress, which first votes on their generic admission or the total amendments, which if successful entail their return to ___
Real Council
Senate
Government
In what budget would the State Mobile Fleet be?
In the Autonomous Bodies of the General State Administration
In the State
In the State Agencies
In what budget would the Constitutional Court be?
In the State agencies
In the State
In the Autonomous Bodies of the General State Administration
Within the public income from ___ taxes would be the Value Added Tax
Direct
Indirect
The other answers are correct
Within ___ transfers we would have those of companies, Public Business Entities, Foundations and other entities of the Public Sector
The other answers are correct
Capital
Current
Within the Financial Assets we would have the repayment of loans granted ___
The other two answers are correct
To the Public Sector
Outside the Public Sector
In a neutral fiscal policy stance ___
Government expending is higher than Tax revenue
Government expending is the same than Tax revenue
Government spending is lower than Tax Revenue
Fiscal policy is used by governments to influence the level of aggretate ___ in the economy
The other answers are correct
Demand
Supply
___ economist had believed in Say's Law
The other answers are correct
Keynesian
Classical
Stagflation prevents the implementation of Keynesian policies based on more spending, since they would cause more ___
Inflation
Deflation
The other answers are correct
If the increase in government spending isn't accompanied by an increase in taxes, the government borrowing to finance the increased public spending ___ interest rates
The other answers are correct
Would increase
Would decrease
Childcare are ___
Welfare benefit collection
The other answers are correct
In kind welfare services
Sir William Beveridge recommended to the government that they should find ways to fight the five giants, which are: ___
Need, Illness, Ignorance, Misery and Inactivity
Need, Illness Ignorance, Wealth and Activity
The other answers are correct
The model in which the state distributes welfare with as little bureaucratic interference as possible, for all people who easily meet the established criteria (for example, having children, receiving medical treatment, etc.) is dominant in ___
The other answers are correct
The Scandinavian Countries
The United States
A fourth criticism of the welfare state is that it results in ___ taxes
The other answers are correct
Limited
High
How is social spending in Belgium?
High
Limited
The other answers are correct
The direct administration of the public service is done mainly through ___
Officials
Contractors
Subcontractors
In the ___ a part of the activity of the Public Sector is transferred to a third part hired to carry out the activity
Partial entrustment
The other answers are correct
Partial subcontracting
Economic policies are often influenced by international institutions such as the ___
IKEA's Bank
World Bank
Park's Bench
Macroeconomic stabilization policy attemps to stimulate a prosperous economy away from ___
The other answers are correct
Expansion
Recession
In developed countries, the interest rate can be influenced by ___
The other answers are correct
The Minister of Economy and Finance
The monetary authorities
What are government expending?
A tool
The other two answers are correct
A goal
For most of the 20th century, governments adopted ___ as demand management with the goal of correcting the business cycle
Discretionary policies
Political rules
The other answers are correct
A compromise between strict discretion and strictly rule-based politics is to grant discretionary power to ___ body
A dependent
An independend
The other answers are correct
The Government presents the budgets to the Congress, which first votes on their generic admission or the total amendments, which if successful entail their return to the Government. Once this process has ben passed, the capacity for alteration by ___ amendments is subject to the non-alteration of the budget balance
The other answers are correct
Total
Partial
In what budget would the General Courts be?
In the State
In the Autonomous Bodies of the General State Administration
In the State Agencies
In what budget would the National Competition Commission be?
In the State
In the State agencies
In the Autonomous Bodies of the General State Administration
Within the public income from ___ taxes would be the taxes on specific consumption
Direct
Indirect
The other answers are correct
Within the patrimonial income we would have the interest of ___ advances and loans
The other answers are correct
Received
Granted
Staff expenses would be within public expenses for ___ operations
Current
Capital
The other answers are correct
A ___ fiscal policy stance implies a net increase in government spending or a fall in tax revenue or a combination of both
Restrictive
Expansive
Neutral
The ___ economy suggest that adjusting government spending and tax rates are the best ways to stimulate aggregate demand
Monetarist
Keynesian
Classical
Say's Law says that ___
Supply doesn't create its own demand
The other answers are correct
Supply creates its own demand
Some ___ economists argue that fiscal policy may not have a stimulating effect
The other answers are correct
Classical
Neoclassical
If the increase in government spending isn't accompanied by an increase in taxes, the government borrowing to finance the increased public spending would increase interest rates, leading to a reduction in ___
The other answers are correct
Private investment
Private consumption
Healthcare is ___
Welfare benefit collection
The other answers are correct
In kind welfare services
Before 1939, health care had to be paid for, this was done through a wide network of ___, unions, and other insurance companies
Mutualities
Benchs
The other answers are correct
What model of welfare state requires high taxation?
The other answers are correct
The one from the Scandinavian Countries
The one from the United States
A criticism of welfare states is that they are ___
The other answers are correct
Cheaper and more efficient
More expensive and less efficient
How is social spending in Germany?
High
Limited
The other answers are correct
The direct administration of the public service is mainly paid through ___
Taxes
Fees
None of the other answers is correct
An example of partial entrustment or partial subcontracttig is if the Ministry of Education entrust a ___company with the maintenance of computer equipment
Public
Private
The other answers are correct
___ policies are based, for example, on increasing spending in the event of a recession
Supply
Demand
The other answers are correct
Macroeconomic stabilization policy limits the money supply to prevent excessive ___
The other answers are correct
Deflation
Inflation
The ___ ratio is the percentage of deposits that banks have to keep in the Central Bank
Gini
Multiplier
Cash
What is economic growth?
A goal
The other two answers are correct
A tool
Due to the widespread ___ and inflation of the 1970s, politicians began to be attracted to the political rules
Stagnation
Increase
Decrease
The ___ of a government is a summary or plan of the anticipated income and expenditures of a government
Inventory
Budget
Balance
The Government presents the budgets to the Congress, which first votes on their generic admission or the total amendments, which if successful entail their return to the Government. Once this process has been passed, the capacity for alteration by partial amendments is subject to the non-alteration of the budget balance. Later they go to ___
Minister council
Treasury
Senate
In what budget would the Traffic Headquarters be?
In the Autonomous Bodies of the General State Administration
In the State
In the State Agencies
In what budget would the Council of State be?
In the State agencies
In the State
In the Autonomous Bodies of the General State Administration
Within the public income from ___ taxes would be the capital tax
Indirect
Direct
The other answers are correct
Within the patrimonial income we would have the ___ of deposits
The other answers are correct
Expenses
Interest
The real investments would be within the public expenses for ___ operations
Capital
Current
The other answers are correct
In an expansive fiscal policy stance ___
G is equal to T
G is higher than T
G is lower than T
The ___ effect is the idea that an initial amount of spending (usually contributed by the government) leads to increasing consumer spending and will result in an increase in national income greater than the initial amount of spending
Accumulator
Multiplier
Incremental
According to Say's Law, is a general glut possible?
Yes
The other answers are correct
No
The Treasury Point of View refers to the theoretical positions of classical economists at ___ Treasury who opposed Keynes's call for fiscal stimulous in the 1930s
British
French
American
In Andalusia, as in the rest of Spain, the public sector ___
The other answers are correct
Intervenes to control the economy
Doesn't intervene to control the economy
In ___, in 1942, Social Security and United Services were created
France
Swizerland
Great Britain
The mutualities provided insurance for ___
The other answers are correct
Disease
Unemployment and disability
What model of welfare state has wide support?
The other answers are correct
The one from the Scandinavian Countries
The one from the United States
The most extreme criticism of states and governments is form the ___, who believe that all states and governments are undesirable and/or unnecessary