Discretionary Fiscal Policy

question 51

Multiple Choice

Discretionary fiscal policy:

• A) can magnify the automatic stabilization effects of existing policies.
• B) only magnifies the automatic stabilizer effects of policies that stimulate the economy.
• C) often counters the effect of automatic stabilizers that already exist.
• D) None of these are true.

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