When tastes over current and future consumption take the Cobb-Douglas form, interest rates have no impact on savings when income is earned in the current period but not in the future.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)


True

Rationale: For Cobb-Douglas tastes, the substitution and wealth effects are exactly offsetting.

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In Figure 3-4 above, the shift from Ap0 to Ap1 could have been caused by a ________ in T of ________

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