Here are the answers with discussion for this Weekend’s Quiz. The information provided should help you work out why you missed a question or three! If you haven’t already done the Quiz from yesterday then have a go at it before you read the answers. I hope this helps you develop an understanding of Modern…
The Weekend Quiz – January 26-27, 2019
Welcome to The Weekend Quiz. The quiz tests whether you have been paying attention or not to the blog posts that I post. See how you go with the following questions. Your results are only known to you and no records are retained.
Quiz #514
- 1. When a government such as the US government voluntarily constrains itself by issuing debt to match $-for-$ its net spending position (deficit), it reduces the funds available to the non-government sector for their own spending.
- False
- True
- 2. When the national government's fiscal balance moves into surplus:
- It is a sign that the government is trying to constrain economic activity.
- It is a sign that the government is worried that inflation is rising.
- One cannot conclude anything about the government's policy intentions.
- Options (a) and (b).
- 3. If the external balance remains in surplus, then the national government can run a fiscal surplus without impeding economic growth.
- False
- True
Sorry, quiz 514 is now closed.
You can find the answers and discussion here
Yay! 3 out of 3 two weeks running.
Got the third wrong. I was thinking in terms of sectoral balances. Wouldn’t the magnitude of the external and government fiscal surplus have to taken into consideration? If the governments surplus is massive and the external one only marginal, wouldn’t that be contractionary?
@Hermann,
#metoo
I assumed Q3 was probably a trick question for precisely the reasons you mention.
Oh well, as the song says: “Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad”!
I got question 3 wrong as well. …. 2/3 … oh well. Well done Jon M! That is quite hard to do!
Same thing as Hermann and Mr. Shigemitsu, thought it was one of those ‘not enough information to conclude’ type questions.
perhaps we get too ‘clever’ for our own good at times!
These are trick questions. Designed to make you think.
1 out of 3. Got q2 right! Bottom of the class again…