If the Income-Expenditure Multiplier Equals 4 and a 1 Percentage

question 31

Multiple Choice

If the income-expenditure multiplier equals 4 and a 1 percentage point increase in the real interest rate reduces autonomous spending by 100 units, then a 1,000 unit recessionary gap can be eliminated by ______ the real interest rate by ______ percentage points.

• A) increasing; 10.0
• B) increasing; 4.0
• C) increasing; 2.5
• D) decreasing; 2.5

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Critical Value

A threshold in hypothesis testing that determines the boundary for rejecting the null hypothesis.

P-value

The probability of obtaining an observed value of a test statistic, or more extreme, assuming that the null hypothesis is true.

Level of Significance

A threshold in hypothesis testing that determines the probability of rejecting a null hypothesis when it is actually true, often denoted by alpha.