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Some critics of the Chinese government accuse it of "manipulating" its currency, the Chinese yuan.Explain the nature of and the effects of this "manipulation".

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Answer the following questions using the aggregate expenditures model of the economy described below.C = 80 + .6Yd T = 40 + .2Y Ia = 28 Ga = 64 Xa = 76 M = .18Y (a) What are the marginal propensity to consume, the marginal tax rate, and the marginal propensity to import? (b) What is the saving function? What is the marginal propensity to save? (c) What is the aggregate expenditure function? What is autonomous expenditure? What is the marginal propensity to withdraw? (d) What is the equilibrium level of real GDP? (e) What is the size of the multiplier? (f) Suppose the full employment level of real GDP is $340.Does a recessionary gap or an inflationary gap exist? How can the government eliminate the gap by altering government expenditures?

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Keynes developed his theory during the height of the Great Depression (a severe recessionary gap) in the 1930s.What two policy tools did he recommend to close this gap?

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The data in the first two columns below are for a closed economy without government.Use this table to answer the following questions. The data in the first two columns below are for a closed economy without government.Use this table to answer the following questions. (a) What is the equilibrium GDP for the closed economy? (b) What is the size of the multiplier in the closed economy? (c) Including the international trade figures for exports and imports, calculate net exports and determine the equilibrium GDP for an open economy.(d) What will happen to equilibrium GDP if exports were $25 billion larger at each level of GDP? (e) What is the size of the multiplier in the open economy? (a) What is the equilibrium GDP for the closed economy? (b) What is the size of the multiplier in the closed economy? (c) Including the international trade figures for exports and imports, calculate net exports and determine the equilibrium GDP for an open economy.(d) What will happen to equilibrium GDP if exports were $25 billion larger at each level of GDP? (e) What is the size of the multiplier in the open economy?

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At the current level of real GDP, Sa = $160 Ig = $180 X = $320 M = $280 G = $270 T = $240 (a) What is the size of injections? Leakages? (b) Is GDP at its equilibrium level? Explain.(c) What is the unplanned change in inventories? Explain.

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Whenever there is a shift in the investment schedule and/or the consumption-saving schedules, there will be a new equilibrium level of GDP.Explain why this is so.

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Explain why exports are added to, and imports are subtracted from, aggregate expenditures in moving from a closed to an open economy.

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