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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.
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2.7
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2) The Malthusian model has the property that
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improvements in technology for producing goods
leads to increased population growth.
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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
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Thomas Malthus.
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4) The Malthusian model performs poorly in explaining economic
growth after the
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· Industrial Revolution.
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5) The Solow model emphasizes the role of which of the following
factors of production?
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· capital
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6) In an exogenous growth model, growth is caused by
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· that are not explained by the model itself.
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7) The Solow model suggests that, in the long run,
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· production technology must become more efficient.
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8) Before the Industrial Revolution, standards of living differed
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· little over time and across countries.
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9) In Canada during the 1870-2004 period, the average
annual growth in per capita income
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remained steady at about 2%.
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10) Recent evidence suggests that output per worker is
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· 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
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Relatively low standard of living.
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12) Recent evidence suggests that the level of output per worker is
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· not correlated with the growth rate in output per worker
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13) Rates of growth of real per capita income are most alike amongst
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· the richest countries but not the poorest countries.
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14) In the Malthusian model, the population growth rate is
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· positively related to consumption per worker. |
15) The Malthusian model emphasizes a fixed supply of which of the
following factors of production?
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· land
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