In most countries, decisions that affect medical expenditures are
A. centralized.
B. decentralized.
C. determined by government policy.
D. both centralized and decentralized.
D. both centralized and decentralized.
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If the price of its product falls below the minimum point on the AVC curve, the best a perfectly competitive firm can do is to
A) keep producing and incur an economic loss equal to its total variable cost. B) keep producing and incur an economic loss equal to its total fixed cost. C) shut down and incur an economic loss equal to its total variable cost. D) shut down and incur an economic loss equal to its total fixed cost.
Consider how the United States balance of payments accounts are affected when U.S. banks forgive two billion in debt owed to them by the government of Argentina
What will be an ideal response?
The rational expectations hypothesis indicates that people:
a. pay little attention to policy when forming their expectations about the future. b. expect the next period to be pretty much like the recent past, regardless of policy changes. c. will always be able to forecast the future accurately. d. change their expectations about the future if policy changes.
You are the mayor of your home town, and one day you arrive at city hall to find angry voters demonstrating against you. They are mad because your office created a garbage-collection monopoly by awarding only one company a permit to collect garbage in
your town. The voters claim that the company is overcharging and providing poor service. They want you to do something that will lower rates and improve service. You call your staff economist, who presents evidence that there are substantial increasing economies of scale to garbage collection. What are your options if you are interested in efficiency?