If aggregate expenditure exceeds GDP, we expect inventories to shrink and firms to increase production
a. True
b. False
A
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If a country has a bowed out (concave to the origin) production possibility frontier, then production is said to be subject to
A) constant opportunity costs. B) decreasing opportunity costs. C) first increasing and then decreasing opportunity costs. D) increasing opportunity costs.
If you were told that the exchange rate between the U.S. dollar and the Canadian dollar was 1.2, that would mean that Canadians would have to spend ____ to buy a $12 watch in New York City
a. c and e b. 10 U.S. dollars c. 12 U.S. dollars d. 14.4 U.S. dollars e. 14.4 Canadian dollars
Cost-benefit analysts often encounter the problem that those who would benefit from government provision of a public good tend to
a. overstate the benefit they would receive from the public good and those who would be harmed by government provision of a public good tend to overstate the costs they would incur from the public good. b. overstate the benefit they would receive from the public good and those who would be harmed by government provision of a public good tend to understate the costs they would incur from the public good. c. understate the benefit they would receive from the public good and those who would be harmed by government provision of a public good tend to overstate the costs they would incur from the public good. d. understate the benefit they would receive from the public good and those who would be harmed by government provision of a public good tend to understate the costs they would incur from the public good.
The variety of products and product features that consumers may choose from in monopolistically competitive industries:
A. at least partially offsets the economic inefficiencies of this market structure. B. leads to an optimal allocation of resources in the market structure. C. makes the demand curves facing firms in these industries more elastic. D. guarantees that firms produce at full-capacity output levels.