Which of the following statements about the central bank is TRUE?
A) Only the central bank may hold foreign reserves and intervene officially in exchange markets.
B) Central banks have little power to alter macroeconomic conditions.
C) Today, central banks' reserves consist largely of gold.
D) The Federal Reserve holds only a small level of official reserve assets other than gold.
E) Central banks never inject money into the economy.
D
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Fiscal policy is defined as
A) the discretionary changing of government expenditures and/or taxes to achieve national economic goals. B) the design of a tax system to transfer income from the rich to the poor. C) the use of the taxing power of the government to redistribute wealth in a socially acceptable manner. D) the use of Congressional power to pursue social and political goals.
Assume that the expectation of a recession next year causes business investments and household consumption to fall, as well as the financing to support it. If the nation has low mobility international capital markets and a fixed exchange rate system, what happens to the GDP Price Index and reserves account in the context of the Three-Sector-Model? a. The GDP Price Index falls and reserves
account becomes more negative (or less positive). b. The GDP Price Index falls and reserves account remains the same. c. The GDP Price Index and reserves account remain the same. d. The GDP Price Index rises and reserves account remains the same. e. There is not enough information to determine what happens to these two macroeconomic variables.