MEII ch6,9,10

Final 

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1) If changes in economic policy could cause the growth rate of real GDP to increase by 1% per year for 100 years, then GDP would be ________% higher after 100 years than it would have been otherwise.
· 2.7
2) The Malthusian model has the property that
· improvements in technology for producing goods leads to increased population growth.
3) The idea that an improvement in technology causes an increase in population but causes no increase in the average standard of living is attributed to
· Thomas Malthus.
4) The Malthusian model performs poorly in explaining economic growth after the
· Industrial Revolution.
5) The Solow model emphasizes the role of which of the following factors of production?
· capital
6) In an exogenous growth model, growth is caused by
· that are not explained by the model itself.
7) The Solow model suggests that, in the long run,
· production technology must become more efficient.
8) Before the Industrial Revolution, standards of living differed
· little over time and across countries.
9) In Canada during the 1870-2004 period, the average annual growth in per capita income
remained steady at about 2%.
10) Recent evidence suggests that output per worker is

· positively related to the rate of investment and negatively related to the rate of population growth.
11) Countries in which a relatively small fraction of output is channeled into investment tend to have a
Relatively low standard of living.
12) Recent evidence suggests that the level of output per worker is
· not correlated with the growth rate in output per worker
13) Rates of growth of real per capita income are most alike amongst
· the richest countries but not the poorest countries.
14) In the Malthusian model, the population growth rate is

· positively related to consumption per worker.
15) The Malthusian model emphasizes a fixed supply of which of the following factors of production?
· land