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Global Issues Politics Economics and Culture 5Th Edition Payne Test Bank Full Chapter PDF
Global Issues Politics Economics and Culture 5Th Edition Payne Test Bank Full Chapter PDF
Global Issues Politics Economics and Culture 5Th Edition Payne Test Bank Full Chapter PDF
Answer: C
Topic/Concept: Causes of the Global Financial Crisis
7.1: Evaluate the causes that contributed to creating the financial crisis
Skill Level: Understanding
Difficulty Level: Easy
Answer: B
Topic/Concept: Causes of the Global Financial Crisis
7.1: Evaluate the causes that contributed to creating the financial crisis
Skill Level: Understanding
Difficulty Level: Easy
3) Prior to the financial crisis, the chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, who kept interest rates
low to increase the availability of money, was
A) Simon Johnson.
B) Henry Paulson.
C) Freddie Mac.
D) Alan Greenspan.
Answer: D
Topic/Concept: Causes of the Global Financial Crisis
7.1: Evaluate the causes that contributed to creating the financial crisis
Skill Level: Understanding
Difficulty Level: Easy
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4) In the lead-up to the 2008–2009 crisis, the Securities and Exchange Commission
A) tightened its regulation of investment banking.
B) restricted the movement of capital across borders.
C) decreased regulatory enforcement of the banking industry.
D) updated regulations to keep up with financial innovations.
Answer: C
Topic/Concept: Causes of the Global Financial Crisis
7.1: Evaluate the causes that contributed to creating the financial crisis
Skill Level: Understanding
Difficulty Level: Easy
Answer: A
Topic/Concept: Causes of the Global Financial Crisis
7.1: Evaluate the causes that contributed to creating the financial crisis
Skill Level: Understanding
Difficulty Level: Easy
Answer: A
Topic/Concept: The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis
7.2: Review the impact of the global financial crisis on different world economies, business,
employment, and global power shifts
Skill Level: Understanding
Difficulty Level: Easy
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Answer: B
Topic/Concept: Global Responses to the Financial Crisis
7.3: Evaluate the concerns that made different countries respond in different ways to the
financial crisis
Skill Level: Understanding
Difficulty Level: Easy
Answer: B
Topic/Concept: Global Responses to the Financial Crisis
7.3: Evaluate the concerns that made different countries respond in different ways to the
financial crisis
Skill Level: Understanding
Difficulty Level: Easy
9) Efforts to establish global banking regulations through the Basel accords demonstrate
A) domestic regulatory reforms would be more effective than global regulations.
B) the United States is fully supportive of global banking regulations.
C) global banking regulations are highly effective.
D) B and C
Answer: A
Topic/Concept: Global Responses to the Financial Crisis
7.3: Evaluate the concerns that made different countries respond in different ways to the
financial crisis
Skill Level: Understanding
Difficulty Level: Easy
Answer: C
Topic/Concept: Causes of the Global Financial Crisis
7.1: Evaluate the causes that contributed to creating the financial crisis
Skill Level: Understanding
Difficulty Level: Easy
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11) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
A) were a fictitious American couple used by the media as an example of overspending.
B) were U.S. government corporations that made more money available to lenders and
borrowers preceding the crisis by selling loans to investors.
C) were agencies that warned the public about the dangers of subprime loans before the
crisis.
D) were corporations that requested loans from the European Union to stabilize Ireland’s
failing economy.
Answer: B
Topic/Concept: Causes of the Global Financial Crisis
7.1: Evaluate the causes that contributed to creating the financial crisis
Skill Level: Understanding
Difficulty Level: Easy
Answer: A
Topic/Concept: Causes of the Global Financial Crisis
7.1: Evaluate the causes that contributed to creating the financial crisis
Skill Level: Understanding
Difficulty Level: Easy
Answer: B
Topic/Concept: The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis
7.2: Review the impact of the global financial crisis on different world economies, business,
employment, and global power shifts
Skill Level: Understanding
Difficulty Level: Easy
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14) Europeans in general took a less frantic approach to the 2008–2009 financial crisis than
Americans because
A) their governments had created numerous safety nets, including national health insurance
and generous pensions.
B) home ownership is rare in Europe.
C) Europeans have a very low rate of saving.
D) they are not part of the global financial community.
Answer: A
Topic/Concept: Global Responses to the Financial Crisis
7.3: Evaluate the concerns that made different countries respond in different ways to the
financial crisis
Skill Level: Understanding
Difficulty Level: Easy
Answer: A
Topic/Concept: The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis
7.2: Review the impact of the global financial crisis on different world economies, business,
employment, and global power shifts
Skill Level: Understanding
Difficulty Level: Easy
True/False
1) Hedge funds enabled wealthy investors to avoid some financial regulations in global markets.
Answer: True
Topic/Concept: Causes of the Global Financial Crisis
7.1: Evaluate the causes that contributed to creating the financial crisis
Skill Level: Understanding
Difficulty Level: Easy
2) Following September 11, 2001, a new globalization agenda, as part of a security strategy,
freed American companies from restraints imposed by countries in which they were
operating.
Answer: True
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Topic/Concept: Causes of the Global Financial Crisis
7.1: Evaluate the causes that contributed to creating the financial crisis
Skill Level: Understanding
Difficulty Level: Easy
3) High interest rates were a cause of the global financial crisis of 2008–2009.
Answer: False
Explanation: Low interest rates were a cause.
Topic/Concept: Causes of the Global Financial Crisis
7.1: Evaluate the causes that contributed to creating the financial crisis
Skill Level: Understanding
Difficulty Level: Easy
Answer: False
Explanation: The FDIC gives Americans confidence in banks.
Topic/Concept: Causes of the Global Financial Crisis
7.1: Evaluate the causes that contributed to creating the financial crisis
Skill Level: Understanding
Difficulty Level: Easy
5) President Lyndon B. Johnson believed in limiting the role of government and took steps in
the 1980s that increased financial deregulation and promoted financial globalization.
Answer: False
Explanation: It was President Ronald Reagan
Topic/Concept: Causes of the Global Financial Crisis
7.1: Evaluate the causes that contributed to creating the financial crisis
Skill Level: Understanding
Difficulty Level: Easy
Answer: True
Topic/Concept: Causes of the Global Financial Crisis
7.1: Evaluate the causes that contributed to creating the financial crisis
Skill Level: Understanding
Difficulty Level: Easy
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7) Financial innovations like securitization and hedge funds came along with many new
government regulations to keep them in check, which is why they were not a cause of the
financial crisis.
Answer: False
Explanation: They were largely unregulated and they were a cause of the crisis.
Topic/Concept: Causes of the Global Financial Crisis
7.1: Evaluate the causes that contributed to creating the financial crisis
Skill Level: Understanding
Difficulty Level: Easy
8) The Asian financial crisis of 1997 was one precursor to the 2008–2009 global financial crisis.
Answer: True
Topic/Concept: Causes of the Global Financial Crisis
7.1: Evaluate the causes that contributed to creating the financial crisis
Skill Level: Understanding
Difficulty Level: Easy
9) The head of the U.S. Federal Reserve was in favor of more regulation of the financial sector
after the financial crisis.
Answer: True
Topic/Concept: Global Responses to the Financial Crisis
7.3: Evaluate the concerns that made different countries respond in different ways to the
financial crisis
Skill Level: Understanding
Difficulty Level: Easy
10) The BRIC countries enhanced their power in relation to the United States as a result of the
global financial crisis.
Answer: True
Topic/Concept: The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis
7.2: Review the impact of the global financial crisis on different world economies, business,
employment, and global power shifts
Skill Level: Understanding
Difficulty Level: Easy
1) The power of investment bankers grew after the 1999 demise of the
______________________, which had prohibited commercial banks from marketing
securities.
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Answer: Glass-Steagall Act of 1933
Topic/Concept: Causes of the Global Financial Crisis
7.1: Evaluate the causes that contributed to creating the financial crisis
Skill Level: Understanding
Difficulty Level: Moderate
2) Bundling loans into securities that are sold to investors is called _____________________.
Answer: securitization
Topic/Concept: Causes of the Global Financial Crisis
7.1: Evaluate the causes that contributed to creating the financial crisis
Skill Level: Understanding
Difficulty Level: Moderate
4) Hedge funds were one of the largely unregulated new practices called
_______________________that led to the 2008–2009 financial crisis.
Answer: arbitrage
Topic/Concept: Causes of the Global Financial Crisis
7.1: Evaluate the causes that contributed to creating the financial crisis
Skill Level: Understanding
Difficulty Level: Moderate
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6) ______________________________ refer to credit given to individuals who fail to meet
rigorous standards usually expected by lending institutions.
Answer: Flipping
Topic/Concept: Causes of the Global Financial Crisis
7.1: Evaluate the causes that contributed to creating the financial crisis
Skill Level: Understanding
Difficulty Level: Moderate
8) In the run-up to the crisis, a belief in unending prosperity and a herd mentality fostered
excessive risk taking called______________________________.
Answer: speculation
Topic/Concept: Causes of the Global Financial Crisis
7.1: Evaluate the causes that contributed to creating the financial crisis
Skill Level: Understanding
Difficulty Level: Moderate
9) India, China, Brazil, Russia, and South Africa are collectively known as the
_______________________________ countries.
Answer: BRICS
Topic/Concept: The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis
7.2: Review the impact of the global financial crisis on different world economies, business,
employment, and global power shifts
Skill Level: Understanding
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Answer: Foreclosure
Topic/Concept: The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis
7.2: Review the impact of the global financial crisis on different world economies, business,
employment, and global power shifts
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Skill Level: Understanding
Difficulty Level: Moderate
Matching
Answers to Matching
Essay
1. Discuss how deregulation of financial markets and low interest rates contributed to creating
the financial crisis.
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2. Discuss the implications of the stimulus package for the United States. In light of the benefits
derived from Europe’s safety net, discuss the pros and cons of America’s adoption of
European policies, such as universal health care and job protection.
3. Discuss the role of subprime loans in real estate in the financial crisis and their broader social
and economic implications.
4. In your view, has the financial crisis weakened the United States globally and strengthened
China? Discuss.
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