If German imports of French products are very important in determining the volume of German exports to France, we would expect the actual German spending multiplier to be larger than 1/(marginal propensity to save + marginal propensity to import)
a. True
b. False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
True
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Suppose a monopoly has constant marginal costs of $40 per unit. Demand for the monopolist’s product is Q = 100 - 0.5P.
i. What are the profit maximizing price and quantity for this monopoly? Explain how you arrived at your answer. ii. How many units of the product would the competitive market supply? What would the equilibrium price be? Explain how you arrived at your answer. iii. Calculate how much consumer surplus would be lost if this market started off as perfectly competitive but then became monopolistic. iv. Calculate how much producer surplus would be gained if this market started off as perfectly competitive but then became monopolistic. v. Briefly explain how your answers to parts iii and iv relate to the deadweight loss created by the monopoly.
If the Fed decided to target price levels and inflation was lower than its target for a period of time, the Fed would be required to
A) permanently raise inflation above its target to reach and maintain its price level target. B) permanently lower its price level target to align it with the inflation rate. C) temporarily lower its inflation target to match its price level target. D) temporarily raise inflation above its target to reach its price level target.
The "double coincidence of wants" is
A) what is needed to use money. B) eliminated with the use of money. C) money's role as a unit of account. D) how value is stored when we transact with money. E) eliminated when we barter instead of using money.
Refer to Figure 10.1. If the level of real GDP is initially Y3, spending is ________ production and there is an unexpected ________ in inventories
A) greater than; increase B) greater than; decrease C) less than; increase D) less than; decrease