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13. Securities are ________ for the person who buys them, but are ________ for the individual
or firm that issues them.
A. assets; liabilities
B. liabilities; assets
C. negotiable; nonnegotiable
D. nonnegotiable; negotiable
14. Economies of scale enable financial institutions to
A. reduce transactions costs.
B. avoid the asymmetric information problem.
C. avoid adverse selection problems.
D. reduce moral hazard
4. A nominal variable, such as the inflation rate or the money supply, which ties down the
price level to achieve price stability is called ________ anchor.
A. a nominal
B. a real
C. an operating
D. an intermediate
5. A central feature of monetary policy strategies in all countries is the use of a nominal
variable that monetary policymakers use as an intermediate target to achieve an ultimate
goal such as price stability. Such a variable is called a nominal
A. anchor.
B. benchmark.
C. tether.
D. guideline.
6. High unemployment is undesirable because it
A. results in a loss of output.
B. always increases inflation.
C. always increases interest rates.
D. reduces idle resources.
7. When workers voluntarily leave work while they look for better jobs, the resulting
unemployment is called
A. structural unemployment.
B. frictional unemployment.
C. cyclical unemployment.
D. underemployment.
8. Unemployment resulting from a mismatch of workersʹ skills and job requirements is
called
A. frictional unemployment.
B. structural unemployment.
C. seasonal unemployment.
D. cyclical unemployment.
9. The goal for high employment should be a level of unemployment at which the demand
for
labor equals the supply of labor. Economists call this level of unemployment the
A. frictional level of unemployment.
B. structural level of unemployment.
C. natural rate level of unemployment.
D. Keynesian rate level of unemployment.
10. Having interest rate stability
A. allows for less uncertainty about future planning.
B. leads to demands to curtail the Fedʹs power.
C. guarantees full employment.
D. leads to problems in financial markets.
1. The concept of ________ is based on the common-sense notion that a dollar paid to you
in the future is less valuable to you than a dollar today.
A. present value
B. future value
C. interest
D. deflation
2. The present value of an expected future payment ________ as the interest rate increases.
A. falls
B. rises
C. is constant
D. is unaffected
3. With an interest rate of 6 percent, the present value of $100 next year is approximately
A. $106
B. $100
C. $94
D. $92
4. To claim that a lottery winner who is to receive $1 million per year for twenty years has
won $20 million ignores the process of
A. face value.
B. par value.
C. deflation.
D. discounting the future
5. A credit market instrument that provides the borrower with an amount of funds that must
be repaid at the maturity date along with an interest payment is known as a
A. simple loan.
B. fixed-payment loan.
C. coupon bond.
D. discount bond.
6. A credit market instrument that requires the borrower to make the same payment every
period until the maturity date is known as a
A. simple loan.
B. fixed-payment loan.
C. coupon bond.
D. discount bond.
7. A fully amortized loan is another name for
A. a simple loan.
B. a fixed-payment loan.
C. a commercial loan.
D. an unsecured loan.
8. A ________ pays the owner a fixed coupon payment every year until the maturity date,
when the ________ value is repaid.
A. coupon bond; discount
B. discount bond; discount
C. coupon bond; face
D. discount bond; face
9. The ________ is the final amount that will be paid to the holder of a coupon bond.
A. discount value
B. coupon value
C. face value
D. present value
10. A ________ is bought at a price below its face value, and the ________ value is repaid at
the maturity date.
A. coupon bond; discount
B. discount bond; discount
C. coupon bond; face
D. discount bond; face
11. Examples of discount bonds include
A. Treasury bills.
B. corporate bonds.
C. Treasury notes.
D. municipal bonds.
12. If the amount payable in two years is $2420 for a simple loan at 10 percent interest, the
loan amount is
A. $1000.
B. $1210.
C. $2000.
D. $2200
13. The price of a coupon bond and the yield to maturity are ________ related; that is, as the
yield to maturity ________, the price of the bond ________.
A. positively; rises; rises
B. negatively; falls; falls
C. positively; rises; falls
D. negatively; rises; falls
14. Which of the following $5,000 face-value securities has the highest to maturity?
A. A 6 percent coupon bond selling for $5,000
B. A 6 percent coupon bond selling for $5,500
C. A 10 percent coupon bond selling for $5,000
D. A 12 percent coupon bond selling for $4,500
15. If the nominal rate of interest is 2 percent, and the expected inflation rate is -10 percent,
the real rate of interest is
A. 2 percent.
B. 8 percent.
C. 10 percent.
D. 12 percent