Suppose there is a reduction in consumer income and an increase in the price of jet fuel, an important resource used to produce air travel. If air travel is a normal good, how will these changes influence the price and quantity of air travel? The price of air travel will (be) ____ and quantity purchased will (be) ____
a. decrease; indeterminate
b. increase; indeterminate
c. decrease; decrease
d. indeterminate; decrease
d
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A) distribution of electricity B) diamonds C) first-class mail D) a patented good E) blouses
During the 2008-09 recession, the U-6 measure of the unemployment rate
A) which counts marginally attached workers and discouraged workers as unemployed, reached 17 percent. B) which counts marginally attached workers and discouraged workers as employed, reached 10 percent. C) which counts marginally attached workers as unemployed but does not count discouraged workers as unemployed, reached 17 percent. D) which counts all part time workers as employed, reached 12 percent. E) which counts discouraged workers as unemployed but does not count marginally attached workers as unemployed, reached 17 percent.
Transfer payments are not part of government expenditure on goods and services because transfer payments
A) are not predictable given the nature of their appropriation and allocation. B) do not represent the purchase of a final good or service. C) are not always spent on goods produced in the U.S. D) The premise of the question is incorrect because transfer payments are part of government purchases of goods and services.
According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, household disposable income fell by 0.3 percent of August, 2012. If all else remains the same, what is the likely impact of this fall on the real interest rate?
A) The real interest rate will rise. B) The real interest rate will fall. C) A change in household disposable income will have no impact on the real interest rate. D) The impact on the real interest rate is ambiguous.