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This measure of national output counts everything produced within a country's borders, including by foreign-owned factories, but excludes citizens' earnings abroad.
Difficulty: Easy- Gross Domestic Product
- National Output Index
- Net National Income
- Gross National Product
This theory suggests that government borrowing won't stimulate the economy because rational consumers save more to pay future taxes needed to repay the debt.
Difficulty: Medium- Modigliani-Miller theorem
- Permanent income hypothesis
- Ricardian equivalence
- Life-cycle hypothesis
This puzzle notes that despite capital mobility, national saving and investment rates remain highly correlated, contradicting perfect capital market integration predictions.
Difficulty: Hard- Home bias puzzle
- Feldstein-Horioka puzzle
- Backus-Smith puzzle
- Lucas puzzle
When the Federal Reserve wants to stimulate borrowing and spending during an economic slowdown, it typically takes this action with interest rates.
Difficulty: Easy- Raises them significantly
- Keeps them frozen by law
- Eliminates them entirely
- Lowers them
The percentage of output that must be sacrificed to reduce the rate of price increases by one percentage point measures this costly trade-off.
Difficulty: Medium- Phillips coefficient
- Misery index
- Sacrifice ratio
- Output gap
The paradox where the dominant reserve currency issuer faces impossible choices between providing global liquidity and maintaining currency stability bears this economist's name.
Difficulty: Hard- Triffin dilemma
- Kenen trilemma
- Kindleberger dilemma
- Mundell paradox
A general, sustained increase in prices across the economy that reduces the purchasing power of money over time describes this economic phenomenon.
Difficulty: Easy- Deflation
- Hyperdeflation
- Stagflation
- Inflation
This investment theory relates the ratio of a firm's market value to the replacement cost of its capital, suggesting investment occurs when this ratio exceeds one.
Difficulty: Medium- User cost of capital
- Tobin's q
- Capital asset pricing model
- Accelerator principle
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