Answer to Question 2:

Fiscal policy is an effective employment-expanding device in a key-currency country subject, of course, to the usual caveats about fiscal policy in general.

True or False?


The statement is true. As long as the key-currency country can shift its  IS  curve to the right by fiscal policy actions it can affect its output and employment in the short-run. Having set its IS curve with, given an unchanged money supply, its  LM  curve remaining unchanged, the key-currency country has increased its equilibrium level of income in the short run when wages and prices are fixed. The peripheral countries have to adjust their money supplies to produce a world interest rate consistent with the key-currency country's IS-LM intersection or their exchange rates will be bid away from the officially fixed levels.

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