Which of the following has proved to be spectacularly false, at least recently?
A. As an expansion proceeds, people will hold no more cash.
B. As an expansion proceeds, banks will hold no more excess reserves.
C. The oversimplified money multiplier formula is predicated on two critical assumptions.
D. All of the above are false.
Answer: B
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1. A Pigouvian tax is a charge on a good whose production generates a negative externality, such that the charge isequal to the MEC at the competitive output level.
2. In the single-polluter case, a firm faced with an emission charge for pollution implemented as a marginal tax (MT) will abate as long as MAC
Discounting is converting a future amount of money to a present value
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. A major advantage of a partnership is the legal separation of personal and partnership assets. 2. In a corporate form of business enterprise, both profits and dividends are subject to income tax. 3. In determining what and how much to produce, the market economy works in a democratic manner based on dollar votes. 4. Government intervention in market economies was and is necessary to remedy the inequities that evolved from economic liberalism.
Mars Inc produces 100,000 boxes of Snickers bars which sell for $4 a box. If variable costs are $3 per box, and it has $150,000 fixed operating costs, in the short run, it should
A) shut down as fixed costs are not being covered. B) keep producing as profits are $50,000. C) keep producing as variable costs are being met. D) keep producing as total costs are being recovered.