Checks linked to demand deposits are becoming ___ popular
More
Less
The other answers are correct
What deposits are part of M2?
Deposits available with notice up to four months
Deposits available with notice up to two monts
Deposits available with notice up to three monts
M2 is a key indicator used to forecast the ___
Financing
Investment
Inflation
What is the correct statement?
M3 isn't published or disclosed to the public by the Central Bank of the United States
The other two answers are correct
M3 isn't published or disclosed to the public by the European Central Bank
A unit of account is a necessary requirement for the formulaton fo trade agreements that involve ___
Indebtedness
Depreciation
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Are works of art advisable as money?
The other answers are correct
No
Yes
Money is created by ___
The Central Bank
The Commercial Banks
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The ___ is an increase in the general level of prices of goods and services in an economy over a period of time
Inflation
Revaluation
Devaluation
Price indices are used to convert nominal values to ___ values or vice versa
Current
Real
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Calculate the real GDP of 2016 over the year 2015 if the nominal GDP was 80,000 and the CPI was 110%
88,000
72,727.27
85,678.75
The consensus view is that a long sustained period of inflation is caused by a money supply growing (at a rate) ___ than the rate of economic growth
The other answers are correct
Slower
Faster
___ economic theory proposes that changes in the money supply don't directly affect prices, and that visible or measurable inflation is the result of pressures in the economy expressing themselves in prices
Keynesian
Monetarist
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Demand inflation is generated for a ___ rate of economic growth as a result of excess demand due to favorable market conditions that stimulate investment and expansion
Slower
Faster
The other answers are correct
___ inflation is induced by adaptative expectations
Demand
Self-built
Supply
Keynesian emphasize ___ aggregate demand during economic expansions to keep inflation stable
Increasing
The other answers are correct
Reducing
A ___ exchange rate can be used as a means to control inflation
Fixed
The other answers are correct
Floating
The inflation rate in the country with an ___ exchange rate is determined by the inflation rate of the country of the currency to which it is linked
The other answers are correct
Fixed
Floating
In the latter part of the 20th century, some countries reverted to a ___ excange rate as part of an attempt to control inflation
Floating
The other answers are correct
Fixed
What is the characteristic of gold?
Durability
The other answers are correct
Expiration
The Breton Woods System finally collapsed in ___
1961
1971
1981
Under a gold standard, monetary policy would essentially be determined by the gold ___, which some believed contributed to the Great Depression
Durability
Divisibility
Mining
Artificially low prices often cause rationing and shortages and ___ future investment
Discourage
Encourage
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In most recent periods in the industrialized world, average wages have increased ___ than most calculated cost of living indices
Slower
Faster
The same
What does M0 make up?
The other answers are correct
Commercial banks reserves kept in their accounting at the Central Bank
Banknotes and coins in circulation and in bank vaults
Demand deposits are also known as ___ and other deposits that function as demand deposits
Saving accounts
Current accounts
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Automatic collection cards linked to demand deposits are becoming more ___
Rare
Common
The other answers are correct
M2 represents money and ___ of money
Distant substitutes
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Close substitutes
What funds are part of M3?
Constitutional money market funds
The other answers are correct
Institutional money market funds
What are the functions of money?
Medium of exchange, unit of account and store of value
The other two answers are correct
Divisible, homgeneous, and size
To function as a "unit of account", what is being used as currency must be:
Divisible, homogeneous and have a certain weight, measure or size
Indivisible, heterogeneous and have a certain weight, measure or size
The other answers are correct
Is real estate advisable as money?
The other answers are correct
No
Yes
The money created by the Central Bank ___
Are the bills and coins
It's electronic money
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Inflation is usually measured by calculating the rate of change of a price index, usually the ___ Price Index
Consumer
Private
National
The ___ value refers to any price or value expressed in money of the day
Constant
Nominal
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Calculate the nominal GDP of 2016 over the year 2015 if the real GDP was 170,000 and the CPI was 180%
136,986.5
306,000
94,444.44
The ___ believe that the most important factor that influences inflation or deflation is the management of the money supply facilitating or hindering credit
The other answers are correct
Keynesians
Monetarists
Keynesians say that ___ is a major (but not the only) cause of inflation
Monetary supply
Demand
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___ inflation is caused by a fall in the aggregate supply of certain goods and services
Demand
Cost
Self-built
Self-built inflation is often connected to the "___ spiral"
Demand/supply
Price-wage
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Keynesian emphasize increasing demand during ___ to keep inflation stable
Expansions
The other answers are correct
Recessions
If the value of the reference currency rises, the value of the currency linked to it ___
Rises
The other answers are correct
Goes down
A fixed exchange rate ___ a government from using domestic monetary policy to achieve macroeconomic stability
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Prevents
Facilitates
In the latter part of the 20th century, Argentina linked its currency, the ___, to the US dollar
Bolivar
Sol
Peso
What is the characteristic of gold?
Divisibility
The other answers are correct
Indivisibility
The Breton Woods System collapsed causing most countries to switch to the ___ currency, supported only by the laws of the country
Emblematic
Fiduciary
Fairprice
Another method to correct inflationary problems, tried in the past has been the ___ control
Penance and charity
Wealth and poverty
Wages and prices
The usual economic analysis is that any product or service that is priced too low is ___
Superconsumed
Underconsumed
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Most living costs ___ forward
Look
Don't look
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The ___ includes the European Central Bank and the national central banks of all the member states of the European Union, whether they have adopted the euro or not
The other answers are correct
Eurosystem
European System of Central Banks
M0 is the ___ from which other forms of money are created
Basis
Vertex
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What checks are part of demand deposits?
Gift vouchers
Traveller's checks
The other answers are correct
Like checks, automatic collection cards, as a means of completing a transaction through their link with demand deposits, can be considered as a form of ___
Exchange
Money
Barter
What is the correct statement?
M1 is a broader classification of money than M2
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M2 is a broader classification of money than M1
What repurchase agreements are part of M3?
Long-term repurchase agreements
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Short-term repurchase agreements
When money is used to mediate in the exchange of goods and services, it's performing a function as a ___
Medium of exchange
Unit of account
Store of value
Are precious metals divisible?
Yes
If
No
Why are the coins made with ridges around the edges?
The other answers are correct
So that any extraction of material form the coins is easily detected
To have less weight
The Central Bank creates electronic money through ___
ATMs
None of the other answers is correct
Loans to private banks
The Consumer Price Index measures the prices of ___
A selection of goods and services purchased by a "typical consumer"
A good or service purchased by a "typical consumer"
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The ___ value is adjusted for the effects of inflation
Current
Real
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Types of inflation according to the value of the ratio: ___ and moderate inflation
Gigainflation
Hyperinflation
Metainflation
Monetarists see ___ policy, or government spending and taxation, as ineffective in controlling inflation
The other answers are correct
Monetary
Fiscal
How many types of inflation are there according to Keynesians?
Three
Four
Two
Cost inflation my be due to natural disasters, ___ of potencial production or increased prices of inputs for other reasons (in the production system)
A rise
A fall
A maintenance
Self-built inflation is based on the assumption that workers try to keep their wages above prices (above ___)
Interest rate
Inflation
The other answers are correct
Control of aggregate demand can be achieved using ___
Fiscal policy
Monetary policy
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If the value of the reference currency falls, the value of the currency linked to it ___
Falls
The other answers are correct
Rises
Under the ___ agreement, most countries in the world had currencies that were pegged to the US dollar
Breton Wools
Breton Woods
Breton Cottons
Gold ___ is a monetary system in which the common medium of exchange is banknotes that are normally freely convertible into predetermined, fixed amounts of gold
Reason
Model
Standard
What is the characteristic of gold?
Homogeneity
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Heterogeneity
___ economists were in favor of a return to a one hundred percent gold standard
French
Austrian
American
Price and wage controls have been successful in wartime in combination with ___
The other answers are correct
Abundance
Rationing
In general the advice of economists ___ imposing price controls
Isn't
Is
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The ___ system is the system that allows money transfers between savers and borrowers
Banking
Financial
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The ___ includes the European Central Bank and the national central banks of those countries that have adopted the euro
The other answers are correct
European System of Central Banks
Eurosystem
M0 is traditionally the most ___ measure of the money supply
Liquid
Gaseous
Solid
___ represents the assets that strictly make up the definition of money
M2
M1
M3
What deposits are part of M2?
Saving deposits
The other answers are correct
Demand deposits
Economists use ___ when they want to quantify the amount of money in circulation
M1
M3
M2
What are short-tem repurchase agreements called?
Recshort
Recoms
Repos
When money is used to mediate in the exchange of goods and services, it's performing a function as a medium of exchange. This avoids the inefficiencies of a barter system, such as the problem of ___
Double coincidence of needs
Double reincidence of needs
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___ means that a unit or piece must be perceived as equivalent to any other
Homogeneous
Heterogeneous
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To act as ___, a commodity, a form of money, or financial capital must be able to be saved, stored, and recovered -and be predictable useful when it's recovered-
Medium of exchange
Store of value
Unit of account
Commercial Banks create money through ___
Borrowing
Lending
The other answers are correct
Inflation is the percent change in a ___ index over a period of time
Price
Investment
Consumption
The ___ values don't specify how much of the difference is due to changes in the price level
Real
Nominal
The other answers are correct
Economists generally agree that high inflation rates and superinflation are caused by ___
An excessive decrease in the money supply
An excessive growth in the money supply
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Monetarists claim that the empirical study of monetary history shows that inflation has always been a ___
The other answers are correct
Phenomenon of the free game of supply and demand
Monetary phenomenon
There are three main types of inflation, as part of what Robert J. Gordon calls the "___"
Model triangle
Pattern trio
Fantastic triplet
For example, a sudden ___ in the oil supply, leading to increased oil prices, can cause cost inflation
The other answers are correct
Decrease
Increase
Self-built inflation is based on the assumption that workers try to keep their wages above prices (above inflation), and that companies pass on these higher labor costs to ther customers as higher prices, leading to a "___"
Model triangle
Vicious circle
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Under a ___ exchange rate regime, a country's currency is pegged in value to another currency or to a group of other currencies (or, sometimes, to another measure of value, such as gold)
Floating
The other answers are correct
Fixed
If the value of a currency rises, it is said that the currency will ___
Appreciates
The other answers are correct
Devalues
Under the Bretton Wood agreements, most countries in the world had currencies that were pegged to the US dollar. This ___ inflation in those countries
The other answers are correct
Limited
Increased
With the gold standard, the currency itself ___ is accepted by merchants because it can be exchanged for the gold equivalent
Has innate value and, therefore,
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Has no innate value, but
Representative (FIAT) money and the gold standard were used to protect citizens form hyperinflation and other monetary policy abuses, as seen in some countries during the ___
Great Depression
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Great Expansion
Gold standard protects against ___
Usury
Inflation
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There were notable failures of the use of the imposition of price and wage controls in 1972 by ___
Jimmy Carter
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Richard Nixon
In many countries, employment contracts, retirement benefits, and government entitlementes (such as unemployment benefit from Social Security) are linked to the cost of living index, typically the ___
Consumer Price Index
Human Development Index
Growth rate
The financial system is made up of banks, saving banks, insurance companies, ___, etc
Trading companies
Stock Exchange
Industrial business
M0 is usually called the ___
Monetay base
Price base
The other answers are correct
Assets that strictly make up the definition of money are assets that can be used to pay for a good or service or to pay for a ___
Customer
Debt
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What deposits are part of M2?
Fixed-term deposits of up to four years
Fixed-term deposits of up to two years
Fixed-term deposits of up to three years
Economists use M2 when they try to explain different ___ economic conditions
The other answers are correct
Commercial
Monetary
What assets are part of M3 and aren't part of M0, M1 or M2?
The less liquid assets
The other answers are correct
The more liquid assets
___ is a standard numerical unit of measurement of the market value of goods, services and other transactions
A unit of account
A means of exchange
A store of value
Are diamonds advisable as money?
No
Yes
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When is legal currency such as paper or electronic money, which is no longer backed by gold in most countries not considered by some economists as a store of value?
When there is a strong currency appreciation
When there is a strong currency depreciation
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The money that commercial banks create is called ___
Business money
Financial money
Bank money
If the Consumer Price Index goes from 100 to 102 inflation would be ___
2%
102%
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Real values convert to nominal values as if prices were ___ in each year of the series
Current
Constant
The other answers are correct
Low or moderate inflation can be attributed to:
Changes in demand, changes in supply and decrease in the money supply
Changes in demand, changes in supply and growth of the money supply
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The theory of the ___ of money simply indicates that the total amount of spending in an economy is fundamentally determined by the total amount of money in existence (circulation)
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Quality
Quantity
___ inflation is caused by increases in aggregate demand due to increased private and public spending
Demand
Cost
Self-built
For example, a sudden decrease in the oil supply, leading to increased oil prices, can cause cost inflation. Producers to whom oil is part of their costs will pass it on to ___ in the form of increases prices
Creditors
Consumers
Suppliers
Monetarists emphasize keeping the growth rate of money ___, and using monetary policy to control inflation
Variable
Constant
The other answers are correct
A fixed exchange rate is usually used to ___ the value of a currency
Increase
Decrease
Stabilize
If the value of a currency goes down, it is said that the currency will ___
Devaluates
The other answers are correct
Appreciates
After the Breton Woods agreements failed in the early 1970s, countries gradually reverted to ___ exchange rates
The other answers are correct
Floating
Fixed
What is the characteristic of gold?
Abundance
The other answers are correct
Rarity
The gold standard was partially abandoned by the adoption of the ___ System
Bretton Woods
Washington
Kyoto
Under a gold standard, the long-term rate of inflation (or deflation) would be determined by the growth rate of ___ supply relative to total production
Dollars
Gold
Euros
In general, wage and price controls are seen as ___ measures
Temporary
Exceptional
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Many economists and analysts consider the idea that the predetermined future "cost of living increases" are ___
Misleading
The other answers are correct
Guiding
___ is the central bank for the only European curency, the euro