If borrowers and lenders expect a higher rate of inflation, what happens to interest rates?
What will be an ideal response?
Nominal interest rates tend to rise.
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An economy with an expansionary gap will, in the absence of stabilization policy, eventually experience a(n) ________ in the inflation rate, leading to a(n) ________ in output.
A. decrease; increase B. increase; increase C. decrease; decrease D. increase; decrease
Suppose the production function for a certain device is q = L + K. If neutral technical change has occurred, which of the following could be the new production function?
A) q = L + 5K B) q = 5 ? (L + K) C) q = 5L + K D) All of the above are possible.
Explicit costs are costs that:
A. require a firm to spend money. B. are zero when no output is produced. C. do not depend on the quantity of output produced. D. depend on the quantity of output produced.
Tom and Jerry have two tasks to do all day: makedishes and build fences. If Tom spends all day makingdishes, he will have make 16 dishes. If he instead devotes his day to building fences, Tom will build 4 fences. If Jerry spends his day makingdishes, he will make 14 dishes; if he spends the day building fences, he will build 7 fences. Jerry has a comparative advantage in:
A. dish production because he has the lower opportunity cost of a dishes. B. dish production because he has the higher opportunity cost of a dishes. C. fence production because he has the lower opportunity cost of a fence. D. fence production because he has the higher opportunity cost of a fence.