The Weekend Quiz – February 18-19, 2017

Welcome to The Weekend Quiz, which used to be known as the Saturday Quiz! The quiz tests whether you have been paying attention or not to the blogs I post. See how you go with the following questions. Your results are only known to you and no records are retained.

Quiz #413

  • 1. Central banks provide reserves to the commercial banking system usually at some penalty rate. However, this compromises their capacity to target a given monetary policy rate.
    • False
    • True
  • 2. If inflation is stable and the central bank holds the nominal interest rate constant, then a currency-isuing government, which matches its net spending $-for-$ with debt issuance, could double its fiscal deficit without pushing up the public debt ratio.
    • False
    • True
  • 3. If Greece could achieve positive net exports (the strategy of the Troika), then it could could push for a primary fiscal surplus knowing it will not compromise growth.
    • False
    • True

Sorry, quiz 413 is now closed.

You can find the answers and discussion here

This Post Has 5 Comments

  1. I got 1st one wrong. Even worse I’m not 100% sure why I got the other two right. Difficult questions for me this week. Hopefully I can answer the anti-spam math question…

  2. Don’t despair Jerry, I’ve been doing this a couple of years and although I get more 3 out of 3’s these days I often have glitches (I did on number 3 above!). I find it often depends on my mental energy at the time and whether I can summon up the network of realtionships in the sectors and other factors that give you the right mental picture -my mind finds it hard to juggle with three elements in a structure nevermind more!

  3. Thank you Simon, don’t worry, I have not fallen into despair. I love the quizzes and like to argue about the answers sometimes. Maybe more than I should. I will have to wait for the answers tomorrow before I could even think about arguing on this particular Quiz.

  4. I agree with Jerry Brown. I felt most confident on the first question, got it wrong. I was not so sure about 2 & 3, but got them right. Cheers!

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