Assuming zero transactions costs, if your local grocer buys oranges at a low price from an orchard and resells them to you at a higher price, then the grocer's revenue minus costs is known as
A) transactions profits. B) pure profits.
C) excess profits. D) arbitrage profits.
D
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Starting from long-run equilibrium, a large tax increase will result in a(n) ________ gap in the short-run and ________ inflation and ________ output in the long-run.
A. recessionary; lower; potential B. expansionary; lower; potential C. expansionary; higher; potential D. recessionary; lower; lower
Suppose a family has saved enough for a 10 day vacation (the only one they will be able to take for 10 years) and has a utility function U = V1/2 (where V is the number of healthy vacation days they experience). Suppose they are not a particularly healthy family and the probability that someone will have a vacation ruining illness (V = 0) is 30%. What is the expected value of V?
a. 10 b. 7 c. 3 d. 0
Suppose that at a firm's current level of production the marginal product of capital is equal to 10 units, while the marginal rate of technical substitution between capital and labor is 2. Given this, we know the marginal product of labor must be
A. 5. B. 10. C. 20. D. It is not possible to say with the information given in the problem
A firm faces the following relationship between the real wage it pays and the effort exerted by its workers.
The marginal product of labor for this firm is given by MPN = E (100 - N)/9. The firm will choose to pay a wage such that the effort level is
A. 24. B. 29. C. 27. D. 20.