Chapter 10 - The Business Cycle True / False Questions 26. Macroeconomics focuses on individual firms and industries. 27. Macroeconomics is the study of the economy as a whole. 28. A basic purpose of macroeconomics is to explain monopoly behavior. 29. The business cycle is the alternating periods of economic growth and contraction 30. The basic measures of macroeconomic performance include the national debt, the trade deficit, and interest rates, 31. An important measure of macroeconomic performance is the growth of GDP 32. Important measures of economic performance include economic growth, employment, and price stability 33. The U.S. stock market and the U.S. bond market are considered by economists to be the most important measures of the economy. 34. Throughout the business cycle, unemployment and production typically move in opposite directions 35. The production of goods and services in the U.S. has risen steadily since 1929. 36. Since the Great Depression, the United States has experienced a number of recessions but none as severe as the Great Depression. 37. People who are not working for pay but are actively looking for work are not included in the labor force. 38. If a person who has the required job skills quits one job and takes two months to find another job, he is considered to be structurally unemployed. 39. If a person who works as a snowplow operator during the winter cannot find employment in the summer, this is an example of seasonal unemployment. 40. If a person cannot find a job after searching for one year because there is not enough demand in the economy, this is an example of cyclical unemployment. 41. If the labor force does not have the skills required for the available jobs, cyclical unemployment increases ceteris paribus. 42. "Full employment" means that some people in the labor force are still unemployed 10.54