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Life Cycle of Savings Practice Questions
1. According to the Life Cycle Theory of Savings:
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a. People tend to spend the most when they make the least.
b. Spending tends to go up over time.
c. Income tends to go up over time.
d. People tend to save the most when they make the most.
2. Suppose you’re a nineteen year old student. According to the Life Cycle Theory of Savings, you will:
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a. Spend less than you make.
b. Borrow to spend more than you make.
c. Spend as much as you make.
d. Save as much as possible.
3. Suppose you’re retired. According to the Life Cycle Theory of Savings, you will:
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a. Spend what you saved during peak earning years.
b. Pay back debts from youth.
c. Spend more than you ever have.
d. Spend less than you ever have.
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Dictionary of Economics
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A
Absolute Advantage
Adverse Selection
Aggregate Demand
Aggregate Supply (Long Run)
Arbitrage
Practice Questions
Asymmetric Information
Austrian Business Cycle Theory
B
Banks
Bond Market
Budget Constraints
Business Fluctuations
Bundling
C
Capital Goods
Club Goods
Coase Theorem
Common Resource
Practice Questions
Comparative Advantage
Compensating Differentials
Consumer Surplus
Practice Questions
Conditional Convergence
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Crowding Out
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Cyclical Unemployment
D
Deadweight Loss
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Demand Curve
Discouraged Worker
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Division of Labor
E
Economic Growth
Efficient Market Hypothesis
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Elasticity of Demand
Elasticity of Supply
Equation of Exchange
Equilibrium (Price)
Externalities
F
Factor Income Approach
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Federal Funds Rate
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Financial Intermediaries
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Fiscal Multiplier
Fiscal Policy
Fisher Effect
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Free Rider Problem
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Frictional Unemployment
G
Great Depression
Great Recession
Gross Domestic Product
H
Human Capital
I
Incentives
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Indifference Curves
Inferior Goods
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Inflation
Institutions
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K
Keynesian Business Cycle Theory
L
Labor Force Participation
Leverage Ratio
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Life Cycle Theory of Savings
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Linear Regression
Loanable Funds Market
M
Marginal Product of Labor
Marginal Utility
Minimum Wage
Monetarist Business Cycle Theory
Monetary Offset
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Monetary Policy
Money
Money Multiplier
Monopoly
Mutual Funds
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N
National Spending Approach
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Natural Rate of Unemployment
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Nominal GDP
Normal Goods
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Nudges
O
Omitted Variable Bias
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Open Market Operations
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Opportunity Cost
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Outliers
P
Patents
Pigouvian Tax
Prediction Markets
Price Ceilings
Price Discrimination
Price Floors
Principal-Agent Problem
Practice Questions
Private Goods
Practice Questions
Producer Surplus
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Profit Maximization
Public Goods
Q
Quantity Theory of Money
R
Real Business Theory
Real GDP
Real GDP Per Capita
Real Interest Rate
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Real Shocks
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Rent Control
Ricardian Equivalence
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The Rule of 70
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S
Shadow Banks
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Signaling
Solow Model
Speculation
Stagflation
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Steady State
Sticky Wages
Structural Unemployment
Stock Market
Subsidies
Supply Curve
T
TANSTAAFL
Practice Questions
Tariffs
Taxes
Tragedy of the Commons
Tying
U
Unemployment
V
Velocity of Money
