The Fed
A) always engages in countercyclical policy.
B) always intends to engage in procyclical policy.
C) can engage in procyclical policy if it mistimes its policy response.
D) never intends to engage in countercyclical policy.
Answer: C
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The unemployment rate equals 100 multiplied by the
A) number of people unemployed divided by the number of people employed. B) number of people unemployed divided by the population. C) number of people unemployed divided by the labor force. D) number of people unemployed divided by the working-age population. E) labor force divided by the number of people unemployed.
A profit-maximizing firm will never hire that quantity of a factor of production for which that factor has an increasing marginal productivity because
a. it would not be maximizing output. b. it would not be maximizing the productivity of labor. c. it would not be minimizing costs. d. it would not be maximizing profits.
If we observe firms earning zero economic profits in the short run, we know that
A) the industry must be perfectly competitive. B) the industry must be either perfectly competitive or monopolistically competitive. C) there must not be any barriers to entry. D) any market structure is possible since firms under any market structure can earn zero profits at some time.
According to the text, economists consider full employment to occur when
A) everyone who wants a job has a job. B) frictional unemployment equals zero. C) the sum of frictional unemployment and structural unemployment equals zero. D) the unemployment rate consists of only frictional and structural unemployment.