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1. A student gives up a paid shift worth $80 to attend a free workshop. Ignoring other costs and benefits, what is the workshop’s opportunity cost?

2. Country A can produce either 12 units of wheat or 6 units of cloth in a day. Country B can produce either 8 wheat or 8 cloth. Who has comparative advantage in cloth?

3. A new technology raises the maximum possible output of both consumer goods and capital goods. How is this represented on a production possibilities curve?

4. Demand and supply for a good both increase. What can be determined without knowing the relative sizes of the shifts?

5. Which transaction is included in this year’s GDP as current production?

6. Nominal GDP is $660 billion and the GDP deflator is 120, with base year 100. What is real GDP?

7. A country has 90 million employed people, 10 million unemployed people actively seeking work, and 20 million adults outside the labor force. What is the unemployment rate?

8. The CPI rises from 125 to 130. What is the inflation rate over that interval?

9. Households reduce consumption at every price level after a fall in confidence. Holding other factors constant, what happens in the aggregate-demand model?

10. In a simple closed-economy spending model with no taxes or imports, MPC = 0.75. A $20 billion increase in government purchases has what maximum change in equilibrium output?

11. Oil prices rise sharply, raising production costs across the economy. In the short run, which outcome is most consistent with a leftward SRAS shift?

12. An economy is below potential output. In the flexible-wage long-run adjustment model, with no new policy or shocks, what adjustment tends to restore potential output?

13. A loan has a nominal interest rate of 7%, and expected inflation is 3%. Using the standard approximate relation, what is the expected real interest rate?

14. A central bank operating with ample reserves raises its administered interest rates to tighten monetary policy. What is the most likely initial transmission?

15. The government increases borrowing in the loanable-funds model, with private saving unchanged. What is the standard predicted effect?

16. An existing bond promises a fixed $50 annual coupon. Market interest rates rise after it was issued. Holding default risk and other terms constant, what normally happens to its market price?

17. An economy expands worker training and productive capital per worker. Which long-run effect is most likely?

18. In a simple closed-economy model, an increase in government purchases raises output by $100 billion when MPC = 0.8. What increase in government purchases produced this change?

19. Actual inflation rises above what lenders expected when fixed-rate loans were signed. Who benefits from the surprise inflation, other things equal?

20. An economy starts at its natural unemployment rate. In the expectations-adjusted Phillips-curve model, a sustained demand expansion raises inflation expectations. What is the long-run unemployment outcome?

21. A country imports $90 billion of goods and services and exports $70 billion. What are its net exports?

22. The exchange rate changes from 1 U.S. dollar = 0.90 euro to 1 U.S. dollar = 1.00 euro. What happened to the dollar?

23. A country’s real interest rate rises relative to other countries, with risk and expected exchange-rate changes held constant. What is the likely financial-capital effect?

24. Country A’s currency depreciates, with foreign incomes and domestic prices initially unchanged. Through the standard expenditure-switching effect, which outcome is expected?

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AP Macroeconomics preparation includes Basic economic concepts, Indicators and business cycle, Aggregate demand and supply, Financial sector, Long-run policy and growth, Open economy. This StudySim bank provides original multiple-choice skill practice. Consult the official framework for the complete exam format, required tasks, and current policies.

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