Assume that in a price-fixing game, if Player A breaks the agreement in the first year, she earns $11 while Player B earns $5 . However, if Player A breaks the agreement once, Player B decides to break the agreement for eternity, leaving each to receive $8 per year for the rest of their lives. If they both keep the agreement each receives $9 per year for the rest of their lives. If the discount
rate is 30 percent per period:
a. Player A will prefer to break the agreement in the first year.
b. Player A will prefer to break the agreement in the second year.
c. Player A will prefer to keep the agreement throughout her life.
d. Player A will prefer to keep the agreement only for the first five years.
C
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The real interest rate is
A. The inflation rate minus the percentage increase in average wages. B. The sum of inflation rates and unemployment rates. C. The nominal interest rate minus the anticipated rate of inflation. D. The difference between the prime rate and the rate charged by the government (the Federal Reserve) on loans.
An individual holds $10,000 in a non-interest-earning checking account, and the overall price level rises significantly. Other things being constant, we would expect
A) the individual's real wealth to decrease and consumption to decline. B) no change in the individual's real wealth but a decline in real national product. C) the individual's stock of real wealth to decrease but real national income to increase. D) the individual's wealth to increase.
If a firm in a perfectly competitive market sells 100 units of output and total revenues are $500, which of the following statements are true? (i) Marginal revenue equals $5. (ii) Average revenue equals $5. (iii) Price equals $5
a. (i) only b. (iii) only c. (i) and (ii) only d. (i), (ii), and (iii)
Institutions that encourage productive activities and discourage counterproductive ones, will tend to promote
a. economic growth. b. rent-seeking c. economic fluctuations d. high rates of unemployment.