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(02.01 HC) Use the table to answer the question that follows. Wages received by employees $15 trillion Bonuses received by employees $6 trillion Rent on land $12 trillion Dividends earned by stockholders $8 trillion Profits earned by firms $19 trillion Interest received on capital $7 trillion Net income from abroad $13 trillion Calculate the GDP of the country according to the income approach.

(02.04 MC) Which of the following is true about the consumer price index (CPI) as an economic indicator?

(02.05 LC) Which of the following scenario shows the cost of unexpected deflation?

  (03.03 MC) Which one of the following events will explain the leftward shift of the short-run supply curve?

(01.06 MC) If it is assumed that the market for good Z is in equilibrium and Z is an inferior good, what will be the result following an increase in the average income of consumers?

(02.01 MC) Which of the following goods would be directly counted as part of a country’s GDP?

(02.04 MC) A consumer price index going from 140 in year 1 to 130 in year 2 means the economy is experiencing

(02.03 LC) Assume that Jonathan was laid off by his company due to recession and stopped looking for work a few weeks later due to health reasons. Which of the following is true in this scenario?

(03.01–03.09 HC) For all graphs, be sure to correctly and completely label all axes and curves and use arrows to indicate the direction of any shifts.Assume Morocco is currently operating with an unemployment rate six percent above its natural rate of unemployment. Draw a correctly labeled graph of the long-run aggregate supply, short-run aggregate supply, and aggregate demand curves. Label the equilibrium price level PL1 and the equilibrium real output Y1. Label the full-employment level of output YF. Where on a production possibilities curve representing full employment in Morocco would current output be—on, outside, or inside the PPC? What can be assumed about inflation based on the information above? Assume that the output gap is estimated to be $156 billion and the government decides to take action. If the marginal propensity to consume is 0.75, by how much would it need to change government spending to close the gap? Show your work. If instead, government chose to use the income tax to close the output gap rather than changes in spending, calculate the change in tax revenue the government would need to close the gap. Assume the same figures as part (d). What is one possible automatic stabilizer in the economy that would contribute to closing this output gap? Assume that instead of intervening, the government allowed the economy to self-adjust in the long run. On your graph from part (a), illustrate how the economy would self-adjust in the long run. If the GDP deflator is 125 in the year that the output gap is identified, and two years later it is 150, is inflation becoming an issue? Explain, using the numbers provided.

(05.06 MC) Which of the following is true, with respect to the relationship between the production possibility curve (PPC) and the long-run aggregate supply curve (LRAS)?