Explain whether Delta Airlines' sales are likely to fluctuate more or less than the sales of each of the following firms as the economy moves from recession to expansion and back to recession
Whirlpool Corporation (appliance manufacturer)
Taco Bell
The Boeing Company (aircraft manufacturer)
GameStop (video game sales and rentals)
Delta's sales are likely to fluctuate during the business cycle less than the sales of Whirlpool and Boeing, but more than the sales of Taco Bell and GameStop. Appliances and aircraft are expensive durable goods that are sensitive to changes in economic conditions. On the other hand, fast food and video games are relatively inexpensive consumer goods that are relatively less sensitive to changes in economic conditions.
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A) growth increases since the firms using the dead capital are using it for free. B) growth increases because the dead capital is replaced with more technologically efficient capital. C) growth neither increases nor is impaired by dead capital. D) growth is impaired since the capital cannot be allocated to its most efficient use.
There are four lighthouses on the island of Sand. If this is the efficient quantity of lighthouses, ________
A) the marginal social benefit of the fourth lighthouse equals its marginal social cost B) total social benefit is zero C) marginal social benefit minus marginal social cost is a maximum D) Both answers A and C are correct.
If the consumption function is given by C = 100 + 0.75(Y-T), then an increase of 10 units in taxes will cause the IS schedule to shift to the right by
a. -30 units. b. -10 units. c. 30 units. d. 40 units.
Which of the following is an explicit cost?
a. The wages a firm pays to its workers b. The opportunity cost of an owner/entrepreneur's time invested in the firm c. The opportunity cost of the money the business owner/entrepreneur has invested in the firm d. The price of the business owner's/entrepreneur's land used for constructing a factory and a warehouse.