Which of the following will most likely occur under a system of clearly defined and enforced private property rights?
a. Resource owners will fail to conserve vital resources, even if they expect their supply to be highly limited in the future.
b. Resource owners will ignore the wishes of others, including others who would like to use the resource that is privately owned.
c. Resource owners will fail to consider the wishes of potential future buyers when they decide how to employ privately owned resources.
d. Resource owners will gain by discovering and employing their resources in ways that are highly valued by others.
D
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Based on the figure below. Starting from long-run equilibrium at point C, a tax increase that decreases aggregate demand from AD1 to AD will lead to a short-run equilibrium at point ________ and eventually to a long-run equilibrium at point ________, if left to self-correcting tendencies.
A. D; C B. D; B C. A; B D. B; C
The user cost of capital is negatively related to ________
A) the real rate of interest B) the depreciation rate C) the expected rate of change of the real price of capital D) the tertiary log of the nominal price of capital
The index of leading economic indicators usually turns downward: a. prior to economic expansions
b. prior to economic contractions. c. prior to a contraction, but then turns upward before the contraction begins. d. a full 24 months before a recession begins.
If the price of bonds rises,
a. the Fed will decrease the money supply b. the Fed will increase the money supply c. the interest rate will rise d. the interest rate will fall e. inflation must be accelerating