The Weekend Quiz – March 5-6, 2022

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 #677

  • 1. An advantage of fiscal deficits is that the non-government sector becomes immediately wealthier because the sovereign government issues debt to private wealth holders.
    • False
    • True
  • 2. In a fixed coupon government bond auction, the higher is the demand for the bonds the lower the yields will be at that asset maturity, which suggests that higher fiscal deficits will eventually drive short-term interest rates down.
    • False
    • True
  • 3. In a situation where the private domestic sector decides to increase its overall saving, the economy can still grow even if the national government had decided to impose fiscal austerity.
    • False
    • True

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