The Weekend Quiz – October 17-18, 2020

Welcome to The Weekend Quiz. The quiz tests whether you have been paying attention or not to the blog posts that I post. See how you go with the following questions. Your results are only known to you and no records are retained.

Quiz #605

  • 1. Under current public sector debt-issuance arrangements (where sovereign governments match their deficits with issues of debt), the government and the private domestic sector cannot simultaneously spend less than they earn.
    • False
    • True
  • 2. The estimates provided by institutions such as the OECD and the IMF of the size of the automatic stabilisers are typically biased downwards.
    • False
    • True
  • 3. Governments concerned with their public debt ratio should encourage growth because the ratio will fall once economic growth resumes.
    • False
    • True

Sorry, quiz 605 is now closed.

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