ECO 304L Chapter Unit 3: Ch 9-12, 16: Long-term inflation and real growth rates

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7 Oct 2017

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UT-Austin

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Economics

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ECO 304L

Professor

M O S T A S H A R I, S H A L A H

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Long-term inflation and real growth rates: we will now discuss how to compare growth rates of output over longer periods of time. Here are a few figures for annual real gdp: 11,553. 0 (note that most downloaded data give gdp and related figures in billions, not trillions of dollars. The growth rate from 1995 to 1999 was 18. 54% and the growth rate from. Clearly, the economy grew more in the earlier period, but the earlier period was four years rather than three. We need a method to make growth over these periods more comparable: again, we will annualize the growth rates. Real gdp1999 = real gdp1995 (1 + ga)4. = (,779. 8 billion / ,093. 7 billion)1/4 1. This happens because the annual growth compounds from one year to the next. Just dividing 18. 54 by four will not give the annualized growth rate: the calculation for the annualized growth rate from 1999 to 2002 is given by: ga.

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The following table reports real GDP per person for several different economies in the years 1960 and 2000. It also gives each economy's average annual growth rate over this period. For example, real GDP per persion in Senegal was $1,776 in 1960 and actually declined to $1,571 by 2000. Senegal's average annual growth rateduring this period was -0.31%, and it was the poorest economy in the table in the year 2000.

The real GDP per person figures are denominated in U.S. dollars with the base year of 1996. The following questions help you to understand the different growth experiences of the economies in the table.

Real GDP per person

economy: Singapore, Senegal, France, Austria, India, China
1960 ($):4,219, 1776, 8531, 8444, 892, 448
2000($): 29434, 1571, 25045, 27000, 2644, 4002
growth rate (%) : 4.98, -0.31, 2.73, 2.95, 2.75, 5.63

1. Which economy had the highest level of real GDP per person in the year 2000?
a. China
b. France
c. Singapore
d. Austria

2. In which economy did real GDP per person grow at the fastest rate from 1969 to 2000?
a. China
b. France
c. Singapore
d. Senegal

3. Consider the following list of four countries. Which economy began with a level of real GDP per person in 1960 that was well below that of France and grew fast enough to catch up with and surpass France's real GDP per person by 2000?
a. China
b. France
c. Singapore
d. Senegal

greysea-lion209

Ryan savedâ $50,000 last year in his bank account so that he could buy a car this year. In thisâ case, money served the function of aâ ________.

means of deferred payment

unit of account

store of value

medium of exchange

A bank is said to have enough liquidityâ if:

it holds deposits amounting to at leastâ $100,000.

it operates for seven days a week for more than 12 hours a day.

it has enough funds to conduct its

dayminusâtominusâday

businesses and meet the regulatory requirements.

the value of its assets exceeds the value of its liabilities by at leastâ $50,000.

Consider an economy that only produces wooden chairs. Inâ 2012, the economy produced 100 wooden chairs priced atâ $10 each. The nominal GDP of the economy for the year 2012 willâ be:

â$10,000.

â$10.

â$100.

â$1,000.

Hyperinflationary episodes are always related to extremely rapid growthâ of:

real GDP.

money supply.

interest rates.

money demand.

Which of the following financial organizations have the ability to influence the supply of reserves in the Unitedâ States?

The World Bank

The Fed

Only private commercial banks

Only public sector banks

A retired worker receives a pension that is not indexed to inflation. Which of the following will happen if the rate of inflationâ rises?

The retiree will be better off.

Theâ retiree's purchasing power will fall.

The shareholders of the firm in which he worked will lose.

Theâ retiree's purchasing power will increase.

Assuming all elseâ equal, what is likely to happen to the demand curve for reserves in an economy if it goes through a period of rapidâ expansion?

There will be a n upward movement along the demand curve for reserves.

The demand curve for reserves will shift to the left.

There will be a downward movement along the demand curve for reserves.

The demand curve for reserves will shift to the right.

If the nominal interest rate in an economy isâ 9% and the expected inflation rate isâ 6%, then the expected real interest rate in the economyâ is:

â15%.

â9%.

â6%.

â3%.

If nominal GDPâ increases, what might be the cause of thisâ increase?

If nominal GDPâ increases, this could be causedâ by:

â(Select

all that

apply.â)

An increase in the price level

Deflation

An increase in real GDP

A decrease in the price level

Given the followingâ information, what is the growth rate of nominalâ GDP?

Upper Y 0Y0

real GDPâ =

â$10001000

â(in millions)

Upper Y 1Y1

real GDPâ =

â$11001100

â(in millions)

Upper Y 0Y0

price levelâ = 120120

Upper Y 1Y1

price levelâ = 130130The growth rate of nominal GDP is

nothing â%.

â (Round

your answer to the nearest

hundredth.â)

According to the quantity theory ofâ money, what must the growth rate of the money supply be given the followingâ information?

The growth rate of real GDP is

1.01.0â%.

The growth rate of nominal GDP is

3.83.8â%.

The nominal interest rate is

7.17.1â%.

The real interest rate is

4.34.3â%.

The money supplyâ (M2) is

â$10 comma 61210,612

â(in billions)According to the quantity theory ofâ money, the growth rate of the money supply must be

nothing â%.

â (Round

your answer to the nearest

tenth.â)

According to the quantity theory ofâ money, what is the inflationâ rate?

Use the information given above and calculate the inflation rate.

According to the quantity theory ofâ money, the inflation rate is

nothing â%.

â (Round

your answer to the nearest

tenth.â)

According to the quantity theory ofâ money, the inflation rate is

the ratio of money supply to nominal GDP.

the gap between the growth rate of money supply and the growth rate of real GDP.

the gap between the nominal and real interest rates.

the gap between the growth rate of money supply and the growth rate of nominal GDP.

If the inflation rate is

positivepositiveâ,

what must beâ true?

The growth rate of nominal GDP

greater than>

the growth rate of money supply.

The growth rate of real GDP

less than<

the growth rate of money supply.

The growth rate of real GDP

greater than>

the growth rate of money supply.

The growth rate of nominal GDP

less than<

the growth rate of money supply.

An open market operation isâ ____________.

the process of sellingâ Fed-issued IOUs between banks.

an exchange between a private bank and the Federal Reserve where the Fed buys or sells government bonds to private banks.

where a bank borrows reserves or bonds from the Federalâ Reserve's discount window.

an exchange between private banks where the banks buy or sell bonds to each other.

The Federal Reserve conducts open market operations when it wants toâ ____________.

change the liquidity levels of banks.

influence the discount rate.

influence the federal funds rate.

change the level of reserves it holds for banks.

When the Fed

sellssells

government bonds

toto

privateâ banks, it

â¼

the electronic reserves that banks hold.

lavendersquirrel414

1. What does the term s*Y represent in the capital-accumulation equation of Solow growth model?

a) The labor-income share of GDP.

b) Net investment.

c) Gross investment.

d) The net change in the capital stock from one year to the other.

2. In the Solow growth model, suppose that the savings rate is 25%, the depreciation rate is 10%, the current capital stock is 10 trillion $ and current output of a country is 4 trillion $. What will the capital stock of this country be in the following period?

a) 10 trillion $.

b) 11 trillion $.

c) We cannot tell since we are not given information about technological progress.

d) We cannot tell since population growth is not known.

3. Consider a country which starts with a capital stock below its steady-state level in the Solow model (without technological change). Why is growth slowing down over time for this country?

a) Population growth is becoming stronger over time since the population is growing, which makes it harder to accumulate high levels of capital per capita.

b) A country cannot maintain the same savings rate forever, so investment must decrease at some point.

c) The more capital there is, the more of it depreciates. As the country becomes richer, it becomes ever harder to replace depreciated capital.

d) There are diminishing returns to the factor capital. Thus investment, capital and GDP per capita grow by ever smaller amounts as the country becomes richer.

4. Suppose Pakistan has a higher savings rate than Iran. Both start out with the same capital per worker. All other parameters are the same for both countries (population growth and depreciation rate). The Solow growth model (without technological change) predicts that...

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