Assume that in an economy with 200M inhabitants, 90M work, 4M are looking for a job, 3M receive unemployment insurance compensation, and 6M receive unemployment insurance compensation and are looking for a job. What is the unemployment rate?

A) 13%
B) 10%
C) 6.5%
D) 5%

B

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A) The quantity sold decreases. B) The total expenditure increases and the total revenue decreases. C) The total revenue of the firms selling the product is unchanged. D) The total revenue of the firms selling the product decreases. E) The total expenditure decreases and the total revenue increases.

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Assume that the central bank lowers the discount to increase the nation's monetary base. If the nation has highly mobile international capital markets and a fixed exchange rate system, what happens to the net nonreserve international borrowing/investing and monetary base in the context of the Three-Sector-Model? State your answer after the macroeconomic system returns to complete equilibrium

a. The net nonreserve international borrowing/lending balance becomes more positive (or less negative) and monetary base rises. b. The net nonreserve international borrowing/lending balance becomes more negative (or less positive) and monetary base remains the same. c. The net nonreserve international borrowing/lending balance becomes more negative (or less positive) and monetary base falls. d. The net nonreserve international borrowing/lending balanceand monetary base remain the same. e. There is not enough information to determine what happens to these two macroeconomic variables.

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