The Response of Monetary and Fiscal Policy to the 2008-2009

question 52

Multiple Choice

The response of monetary and fiscal policy to the 2008-2009 recession was motivated by

• A) a desire to minimize the size of government.
• B) the ideas of Prescott and Kydland.
• C) Keynesian ideas.
• D) fiscal austerity.
• E) supply side economics.

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