Official AP MACRO Economics Discussion 2011

What did you guys think of the test?</p>

Thanks for making this thread! :)</p>

I thought it was alright… this was my first AP Exam too. I wish there was more time given for the Multiple Choice.</p>

Not too many math-calculations required either, which was good.</p>

i thought the multiple choice wasn’t bad…the free was easy, except for the last one… if anyone can explain post 48 hoursss!</p>

Does anyone know the answer to the question that dealt with money demanded and nominal ir in the multiple choice?</p>

That was the one with the loanable funds table wasn’t it? Ugh… I remember not studying it because I was pretty sure it wouldn’t be on the test.</p>

<em>cough</em>all of the following is hypothetical, of course<em>cough</em>
a.) Find reserve ratio. Answer was .2! This was because checkable deposits was 10k, and req reserves was 2k. 2k is 20% of 10k, so 20% or .2 was your answer.</p>

b.) Federal Reserve buys 5000USD worth of bonds, find effect on:
(i). Excess Reserves(I had no clue what to do)
(ii). Deposits (I had no clue what to do)</p>

c.) What is maximum change in the money supply? I think it was 25000? I don’t remember…</p>

that’s all I remember :/</p>

b) excess reserves went up 5000 and deposits did not change, i believe.</p>

a and c seem right to me…</p>

Lol nice job bluntly talking about the questions. Hypothetically though, if you put $5000 into a bank then their reserves would increase. No idea about demand deposits, but I thought that they wouldn’t change. A change in money supply (I thought) was Maximum Supply of Money (let’s say 25000 as an arbitrary number) - original deposit (lets say $5000) so the change was 20000. Right?</p>

Excess reserves went up $4000. Since the RR was .2, 20% of the $5000 had to be put in the bank, so its 80% of 5000 or $4000 in excess reserves.</p>

Its $20,000 in loanable funds PLUS the $5000 that were exchanged for the bonds. Hypothetically of course. So it would be $25,000/</p>

I have a few questions on the MC</p>

  1. was the increase in spending for the family that made 4000 more with a mpc of .75 3000?
  2. was the frictional employment one the answer about the girl coming out of college and having multiple offers?
  3. what was the one about money demanded and nominal ir?
  4. what was one of the last questions about the proportion of CPI change after a nominal gdp change from 2400 to 2600?</p>

Crap you’re right…</p>

( these are all hypothetical, btw)</p>

kellian we cannot discuss questions from the AP, sorry.</p>

1.) Hypothetically, you would be correct.
2.)Yes, The only other option that kind of made sense was the guy that had a part time job who was seeking a full time job. But he was already employed, so he couldn’t have been counted in the unemployment.
3.) I don’t remember… If Demand of money shifts inward/decreases, interest rate also decreases. Money Market graph…
4.)Don’t remember this question either :(</p>

As the demand for money increase, the nominal interest rate increases. Its a supply and demand curve with the y-axis being the nominal interest rate and the supply curve of money being vertical.</p>

Also, nominal GDP and CPI change at equivalent amounts. If real GDP is the same and nominal GDP changes, that means there is inflation or deflation. CPI measures inflation and deflation.</p>

Apparently, again hypothetically speaking, my teacher said if the third question happened to be on calculating the required reserve ratio, the answer would be .10, but I put .20… help???</p>

So I asked my teacher yesterday what he believed would be on the FRQ because he was pretty close on Government and he responded with “Phillip’s Curve, banking, AD/AS”. I won’t say if he was right because of the 48 hour rule but… I was happy.</p>

I don’t know why you are panicking… the correct answer is .2 or 20%…</p>