If nominal GDP is $12 trillion and real GDP is $10 trillion, then the GDP deflator is
a. 83.33, and this indicates that the price level has decreased by 16.67 percent since the base year.
b. 83.33, and this indicates that the price level has increased by 83.33 percent since the base year.
c. 120, and this indicates that the price level has increased by 20 percent since the base year.
d. 120, and this indicates that the price level has increased by 120 percent since the base year.
c
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Suppose Campus Books, a profit-maximizing firm, is the only supplier of the textbook for a given class. The marginal cost of supplying each book is constant and equal to $10, and Campus Books has no fixed costs. The table below shows the reservation prices of the eight students enrolled in the class.StudentReservation Price($/Book)Q60R54S48T42U36V30W30X30 If Campus Books is permitted to charge 2 prices, and the bookstore knows customers with a reservation price above $30 never bother with coupons, whereas those with a reservation price of $30 or less always use them, then how many in total books will the bookstore sell?
A. 8 B. 6 C. 7 D. 5
If a lender charged a 4 percent nominal interest rate and the expected inflation rate is 1 percent, what is the difference between the real rate the lender received and the real rate the lender expected when actual inflation ended up being 1 percent?
a. 2 percent b. 4 percent c. -4 percent d. 1 percent e. 0 percent
If a retail food chain merged with a meat packing company, this would be an example of a
A) horizontal merger. B) conglomerate merger. C) vertical merger. D) diagonal merger.
If the rate of inflation in the U.S. falls relative to the rate of inflation in foreign nations, U.S. exports _______ and imports _______.
A. increase; decrease B. decrease; increase C. decrease; decrease D. increase; increase