According to the Modern Expectational Phillips Curve, Unemployment Will Temporarily

question 19

Multiple Choice

According to the modern expectational Phillips curve, unemployment will temporarily rise above the natural rate of unemployment when

• A) any inflation is present.
• B) inflation turns out to be lower than what people expected.
• C) inflation turns out to be higher than what people expected.
• D) inflation turns out to be equal to what people expected.

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Definitions:

Equity Method

An accounting technique used to record investments in which the investor has significant influence over the investee, usually through ownership of 20-50% of voting stock.

Bonds Payable

Long-term liabilities represented by promissory notes issued by a company to borrow funds, repayable at a specified future date along with interest.

Unamortized Discount

The portion of a bond's issue price that is below its face value and has not yet been expensed over the life of the bond.

Straight-Line Method

A method of calculating depreciation or amortization by evenly spreading the cost of an asset over its useful life.