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{Which of the following is not compatible with the presence of financial bubbles :} | {Which of the following is not compatible with the presence of financial bubbles :} | ||
-Financial markets are inefficient. | -Financial markets are inefficient. | ||
-Investors decisions are based on observed | -Investors decisions are based on observed prices. | ||
-Investors are irrational. | -Investors are irrational. | ||
+Asset | +Asset prices reflect firms' fundamentals. | ||
{ | {Reserve requirements, r, are equal to 50% and the share of liquidity that household decide to keep in their pockets, c, is around 50%. Which of the following is correct ? (rc=O by assumption)} | ||
- | +Money supply (Ml) is equal to the monetary base (Mo). | ||
- | -The money multiplier equals 10. | ||
-The monetary base corresponds to 50% of the money supply. | |||
- | -Commercial banks are creating half of the money supply. | ||
{ | {According to the quantitative theory of money and assuming that the velocity of money is constant, we can assert that :} | ||
+When the Central Bank doubles money supply, priees double if there is no real growth. | |||
- | -If money supply increases by 3%, nominal GDP falls by 3%. | ||
- | -If money supply increases by 2%, real income necessarily increases by 2%. | ||
-None of the above is correct. | |||
{ | {Regarding seignoriage (printing money to finance a budget deficit), which of the following is wrong ?} | ||
- | -It has the same impact as a tax levied on aIl citizens. | ||
- | -It allows the government to finance part of its deficit. | ||
- | -It is undertaken by the government and it results in inflation. | ||
+ | +When inflation is perfectly anticipated, it created distortions between private borrowers and private savers. | ||
{According the Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) model of exchange rates, if prices in Switzerland increase by 2%, while they increase by 5% in the euro zone, we can expect :} | |||
-a 7% depreciation of the CHF relatively to the Euro | |||
-a 7% appreciation of the CHF relatively to the Euro | |||
-a 3% depreciation of the CHF relatively to the Euro | |||
+a 3% appreciation of the CHF relatively to the Euro | |||
{Selon la théorie quantitative de la monnaie, laquelle des propositions suivantes est correcte ?} | {Selon la théorie quantitative de la monnaie, laquelle des propositions suivantes est correcte ?} | ||
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