The U.S. government can continue to run a deficit as long as the cost of servicing the resulting debt remains manageable
a. True
b. False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
True
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If the central bank can act as a lender of last resort during a banking panic, banks can
A) call in their loans to their customers and eventually restore the public's faith in the banking system. B) satisfy customer withdrawal needs and eventually restore the public's faith in the banking system. C) borrow more and more money from the central bank, and this will lower its reserves and decrease the public's faith in the banking system. D) encourage the public to borrow directly from the central bank, and this will worsen the banking panic.
Suppose ordinarily half your class would get an A and half would get a B, with A students having a 25% chance of getting an A and B students having a 25% of getting an A. It costs $100 to persuade the instructor to raise a B grade to an A. A student is willing to pay $40 to insure she will get her usual grade and $70 to insure she will get a higher grade than usual. a. Who would buy insurance and at what price in a competitive equilibrium?
b. Suppose it costs $5 to truthfully signal your type and $10 to falsely signal what type of student you are, and if an insurance company receives no signal, it will interpret this as a signal that you are a B student. What would be the competitive outcome now? c. Suppose a new teacher comes in -- and this teacher is willing to change a grade for just $60. How does your answer to (a) change? d. How would your answer to (b) change? e. Can you change something in the problem that would result in only A-students buying insurance? What will be an ideal response?
If productivity growth equals 3.0 percent, the contribution from capital growth 1.2 percent and the contribution from labor growth 2.0 percent, then output growth must equal ________
A) 2.2 percent B) 4.2 percent C) 6.2 percent D) 7.2 percent
An example of price floor is
a. Minimum wages b. Rent controls in New York c. Both a and b d. None of the above