The secondary effects of an economic action refer to the
What will be an ideal response?
the unintended consequences of a change that are not immediately identifiable but are felt over time
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If you sell a futures contract for U.S. Treasury bills and on the delivery date the interest rate of T-bills is higher than you expected, you will have
A) lost money on your long position. B) gained money on your long position. C) lost money on your short position. D) gained money on your short position.
As long as marginal cost is less than average variable cost:
a. both average total costs and average variable costs will be falling. b. average total costs will be falling but average costs may be rising or falling. c. average fixed costs are rising. d. average total costs are falling but average fixed costs may be rising.
Suppose Winston's annual salary as an accountant is $60,000, and his financial assets generate $4,000 per year in interest. One day, after deciding to be his own boss, he quits his job and uses his financial assets to establish a consulting business, which he runs out of his home. To run the business, he outlays $8,000 in cash to cover all the costs involved with running the business, and earns revenues of $150,000. What costs would be considered when calculating economic profit?
A. The opportunity cost of his job and interest forgone of $64,000, and the explicit cost of $8,000 B. The implicit cost of the interest forgone of $4,000 and the explicit cost of $8,000 C. The explicit cost of $8,000 D. The implicit cost of his job of $60,000 and the opportunity cost of forgone interest of $4,000
If nation A has an absolute advantage over nation B in the production of a product, this implies that
a. it requires fewer resources in A to produce the good than in B. b. the cost of producing the good in terms of some other good's production that must be sacrificed is lower in A than in B. c. nation B could not benefit by engaging in trade with A. d. nation A should acquire this product by trading with B. e. nation A could not benefit by engaging in trade with B.