Question

1) According to the Phillips curve :

a. there is a direct relationship between unemployment and inflation

b. there is an inverse relationship between unemployment and inflation

c. there is a direct relationship between income and unemployment

d. there is an inverse relationship between income and unemployment

e. there is a direct relationship between the money supply and inflation

 

2) which of the following believe that there is a Phillips curve trade-off in both the short run and the long run?

a. monetarists

b. rational expectations school

c. Keynesians

d. classical economist

e. methodists

 

3) Which of the following believe that there is a Phillips curve trade-off in the short run but not in the long run

a. Keynesians

b. rational expectations school

c. monetarists

d. Lithuanians

e. supply-siders

 

4) According to the Monetarists, the principal cause for the Phillips curve shifting to the right from the 1950s to the early 1980s was:

a. decreasing labor productivity

b. an increase in the inflationary expectation of labor

c. increase in the price of oil

d. increase in unemployment benefit

e. all of the above

 

5) According to the Keynesians, the reason why the Phillips curve shifted to the right from the 1950s to the early 1980s was :

a. an increase in the inflationary expectation of labor

b. "supply shocks" in the form of oil price increase

c. the changing composition of the labor force

d. all of the above

e. none of the above