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Question #1

The risk that a person who borrows from a bank may not be able to repay the loan is known as _________ risk.

A Liquidity

B Market

C Solvency

D Credit

Question #2

Which of the following items would appear on the asset side of Dolan Bank’s balance sheet?

A Deposits into savings accounts

B Deposits into checking accounts

C Mortgage loans

D Net worth

Question #3

If Japan’s nominal interest rate is 10% and inflation is 4%, the real interest rate is

A 4%

B 10%

C 6%

D 12%

Question #4

The following is a method of calculating the GDP using the expenditure approach: (Consumption + Inventories+ local taxes + leakages + Imports).

A True

B False

Question #5

When the economy experiences an expansion, the business cycle moves from a peak to a trough.

A False

B True

Question #6

The amount of imports to a country is never influenced by the level of gross domestic income and the exchange rate.

A True

B False

Question #7

The price index based on a sample of goods and services purchased by business firms is known as the consumer price index.

A False

B True

Question #8

Government purchases are an injections into the circular flow, whereas net taxes are a leakages.

A False

B True

Question #9

Which of the following is considered an asset for you, as a university student?

A The $51.47 in paper money and coins that you are carrying with you now for spending money

B The dorm room that you rent from the university

C All of these.

D The $8,000 you owe the university for tuition

Question #10

The additional consumption resulting from a one dollar increase in income is known as

A Consumption expenditure

B Net taxes

C Net financial inflow

D Marginal propensity to consume

Question #11

People who are willing to work in principle, but who do not look for work because they think no work is available, are counted as unemployed.

A False

B True

Question #12

Most structural unemployment is voluntary and short-term.

A False

B True

Question #13

Firms borrow money to fund fixed investment through the financial sector.

A True

B False

Question #14

A discouraged worker is a person who would work if a suitable job were available but has given up looking for a job.

A False

B True

Question #15

A model of banking in which banks make loans and then quickly sell them, using the proceeds to make new loans, is called originate ___________.

A for solvency

B to distribute

C for liquidity

D to hold

Question #16

An increase in which of the following would lead to a decrease in consumption expenditure?

A Consumer wealth

B Consumer confidence

C Interest rates

D Income

Question #17

Gross Domestic Product fails to account for illegal activity.

A True

B False

Question #18

Final goods or services are those

A Cannot be estimated using the value added approach.

B Which are ready for sale to parties that use them for consumption, investment, government purchases or export.

C All of these.

D Used in the production of another good or service.

Question #19

In the originate-to-hold model, banks ___________ hold loans to maturity and in the originate-to-distribute model, banks ___________ hold loans to maturity.

A never; almost always

B almost always; never

C never; never

D almost always; almost always

Question #20

U.S. Bank holds U.S. Treasury bonds as part of its portfolio. Due to an international crisis, the value of U.S. Treasury bonds decreases substantially. This is an example of ________ risk.

A Exchange

B Liquidity

C Market

D Credit

Question #21

Every country has a government agency that is responsible for monetary policy, and often for regulating banks; the general term for this agency is the _________.

A treasury

B central bank

C bank supervision authority

D federal bank

Question #22

Most frictional unemployment is voluntary and short-term.

A True

B False

Question #23

Exports, imports, and unilateral transfers are reported in the current account.

A True

B False

Question #24

The expenditure approach to computing GDP involves summing

A The value added of each intermediate good used in the production of a final good.

B The value of goods and service production by factors of production owned by resident of the country.

C Domestic income.

D Consumption, investment, government purchases, and net exports.

Question #25

Bank of America becomes insolvent. Federal deposit insurance operates to protect the bank’s __________ from loss?

A shareholders

B depositors

C employees

D management

Question #26

When the circular flow is in equilibrium, gross domestic income equals gross domestic output.

A True

B False

Question #27

Economic growth is beneficial because it leads to improved living standards in terms of leisure and reducing poverty.

A True

B False

Question #28

First Notional Bank has assets of $50 billion and liabilities of $42 billion. We can conclude that its net worth is ______.

A -$8 billion (negative net worth)

B $108 billion

C $92 billion

D $8 billion

Question #29

Indexation refers to

A The process of stabilizing economy-wide prices.

B Measuring wages in nominal, rather than real, terms.

C Measuring prices using the Consumer Price Index.

D Adjusting nominal payments for inflation.

Question #30

Which of the following is a nondurable consumption good?

A Gasoline

B Furniture

C Automobile

D Appliances

Question #31

If an economy experienced an unexpected decrease in inflation

A The real interest rate would rise.

B Creditors would be hurt.

C All of these.

D Debtors would be helped.

Question #32

If a U.S. automaker manufactures cars in Mexico, these cars will be included in U.S. gross national product and Mexico’s gross domestic product.

A False

B True

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