What is the problem with paying plant managers in multi-plant firms according to the level of output they produce?
A) Managers in low-cost or high-capacity plants could be penalized, in percentage terms, for their overproduction.
B) The production problem in multi-plant firms is usually how to lower production to increase market power, not how to increase production.
C) Managers in high-cost or low-capacity plants could be penalized for production constraints over which they have no control.
D) Managers would have an incentive to understate the productive capacity of their plants.
E) Managers would have an incentive to overstate the productive capacity of their plants.
C
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If the Phillips curve represents a "structural relationship," then
A) the Phillips curve will be vertical in the long run. B) the trade-off between unemployment and inflation is permanent. C) the trade-off between unemployment and inflation holds only for the short run. D) the trade-off between unemployment and inflation holds in the long run, but not in the short run.
A prolonged recession in Europe should decrease the
a. supply of U.S. dollars. b. demand for U.S. dollars. c. supply of U.S. goods and services. d. demand by Americans for euros.
Each of the following took place in the latter half of the 1990s except
A. a declining federal budget deficit. B. a declining unemployment rate. C. the spread of computerization. D. a rising rate of inflation.
?Exhibit 10A-1 Aggregate demand and supply model
?Beginning from short-run equilibrium at point E2 in Exhibit 10A-1, the economy's movement to a new position of long-run equilibrium would best be described as:
A. ?a movement along the AD2 curve with a shift in the SRAS1 curve. B. ?a movement along the SRAS2 curve with a shift in the AD2 curve. C. ? a shift in the LRAS curve to an intersection at E1. D. ?no shift of any kind.