Under adaptive expectations theory, a decrease in the short-run aggregate demand curve ____ the inflation rate and ____ the unemployment rate
a. increases; increases
b. increases; decreases
c. decreases; increases
d. decreases; decreases
c
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When an economy is at its natural rate of unemployment, which of the following will be true?
A) Only structural unemployment as a result of technological change will exist in the economy. B) The labor force participation rate will be 100%. C) The unemployment rate will be greater than 0%. D) The unemployment rate will be 0%.
Which of the following is true about marginal utility?
a. Marginal utility is total utility divided by the total quantity consumed. b. Marginal utility is the change in total utility divided by the change in total quantity demanded. c. Marginal utility is the satisfaction that a consumer experiences from all the units of a good or service consumed. d. None of the above are true.
Many macroeconomic variables a. fluctuate together and by different amounts
b. fluctuate together by the same amounts. c. never fluctuate together. d. fluctuate together about half of the time and by the same amount.
Office workers and word processing programs are complements if:
A. a decrease in the wage paid to office workers leads to an increase in the demand for word processing programs. B. a decrease in the wage paid to office workers leads to a leftward shift in the demand for word processing programs. C. they perform similar functions. D. an increase in the price of word processing programs leads to an increase in the demand for office workers.