Economics – Fiscal Policy (Tools & Mult

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What is comparative advantage, and what determines who has it?

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Producing at lower opportunity cost; whoever has the lower opportunity cost.

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What does a balanced-budget multiplier of imply?

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Equal increases in and raise GDP by that same amount.

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How do higher transfer payments affect the budget balance, other things equal?

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They increase the budget deficit.

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How does a real exchange rate differ from a nominal exchange rate?

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The real rate adjusts the nominal rate for relative price levels.

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