Economics Today 18th Edition by Roger LeRoy Miller

تمرين 4

Determine whether each of the following is an example of a situation in which a direct expenditure offset to fiscal policy occurs.
A) In an effort to help rejuvenate the nation's railroad system, a new government agency buys unused track, locomotives, and passenger and freight cars, many of which private companies would otherwise have purchased and put into regular use.
B) The government increases its expenditures without raising taxes. To cover the resulting budget deficit, it borrows more funds from the private sector, thereby pushing up the market interest rate and discouraging private planned investment spending.
C) The government finances the construction of a classical music museum that otherwise would never have received private funding.