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CFA Level I Chartered Financial Analyst Questions 1391–1395 (page: 280)

Updated On: 9-Feb-2026

An increase in the expected future inflation rate will:

  1. Move the short-run supply curve to the left.
  2. Move the short-run supply curve to the right.
  3. Move the long-run supply curve to the right.
  4. Move the long-run supply curve to the left.

Answer(s): A

Explanation:

An increase in the expected future inflation rate will have two impacts. First, sellers will have reduced incentive to sell at current prices; they would rather store the current production for future sales at higher prices.
Secondly, resource suppliers, to the extent that they anticipate the higher inflation, will increase the resource prices in their contracts. Both these factors will serve to reduce the quantity the producers will be ready to supply at any given price, moving the short run supply curve to the left. The long-run supply curve will not be affected since over that period, all adjustments to the expected future conditions will have been made, restoring the equilibrium.



Countries A and B have the same monetary base and reserve requirement. People in A tend to hold more currency than people in B. The money supply will be:

  1. higher in B
  2. same in the two countries.
  3. insufficient information.
  4. higher in A

Answer(s): A

Explanation:

When people hold currency instead of bank deposits, the money goes out of circulation temporarily and the full impact of the deposit expansion multiplier is not felt. The higher this tendency to hold currency, the lower will be the money supply, even though the monetary base has not been affected.



According to Say's law, there cannot be overproduction of goods and services because

  1. overproduction will lead to higher unemployment, which will reduce production.
  2. demand creates its own supply.
  3. less fortunate countries will always buy the excess output.
  4. producing goods generates enough income to buy the total output.

Answer(s): D

Explanation:

Say's Law is the view that production creates its own demand. Demand will always be sufficient to purchase the goods produced because the income payments to the resource suppliers will equal the value of the goods produced.



The crowding-out model implies that a

  1. budget surplus will be highly effective against inflation.
  2. budget deficit is likely to stimulate aggregate demand and trigger a multiplier effect that will lead to inflation.
  3. budget deficit will increase the real interest rate and thereby retard private spending.
  4. budget surplus will retard aggregate demand and throw the economy into a downward spiral.

Answer(s): C

Explanation:

The crowding out theory implies that government borrowing drives up real interest rates and thus crowds out" private investment. Private investment falls under higher interest rates because the cost of investment (the real interest rate) rises if the government borrows heavily. Under the usual law of supply and demand, the government causes the interest rate to rise under deficit spending because there is a limited supply of loanable funds. The government competes with the private sector for these resources and thus drives up the price (i.e., the interest rate).



Within the Keynesian model, equilibrium output takes place ________.

  1. when actual and expected rates of inflation are equal
  2. when the nominal interest rate and real interest rate are equal
  3. when spending equals output
  4. at full employment

Answer(s): C

Explanation:

Equilibrium is defined in this model as when aggregate expenditures are equal to output. Thus, the sum of planned consumption, investment government purchases and the difference between exports and imports must equal GDP.



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