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 – April 16-17, 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 #679
- 1. Assume that a nation is continuously running an external deficit of 2 per cent of GDP. In this economy, if the private domestic sector successfully saves overall, we would find
- Cannot determine - we would need to know the scale of private domestic sector saving as a % of GDP
- A fiscal deficit
- A fiscal surplus
- 2. Government bonds constitute non-government financial wealth. Thus, a fiscal deficit will add to non-government sector net worth only if it is accompanied by the issuance of new bonds.
- True
- False
- 3. A government wanting to achieve full employment after a deep recession will succeed if it uses discretionary fiscal policy to ensure real GDP growth gets back on trend.
- True
- False
Sorry, quiz 679 is now closed.
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