A Hypothesis That Assumes That People Combine the Effects of Past

question 214

Multiple Choice

A hypothesis that assumes that people combine the effects of past policy changes on economic events and their own judgment about future effects of current and future policy changes is known as

• A) adaptive expectations.
• B) irrelevant expectations.
• C) rational expectations.
• D) active expectations.

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