Which of the following are complementary goods?
A) sport utility vehicles and gasoline
B) butter and margarine
C) beer and wine
D) DVDs and videocassettes
A
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The price of good X is $2.00 and the price of good Y is $1.00. Last year, the price of good X was $1.00 and the price of good Y was $2.00. If a consumer has $100, draw there their budget line for each year (label them accordingly). Add as many indifference curves as needed to show a situation in which the consumer is no better or worse off this year than they were last year. Be sure to label their optimal baskets for both years. Explain why what you have drawn is correct.
What will be an ideal response?
Between September 2007 and March 2008 there was a substantial reduction in the demand for housing. What action did the Fed take in response to the reduction in the demand for housing?
A) The Federal Reserve cut the federal funds rate seven times. B) The Federal Reserve decreased the required reserve rate. C) The Federal Reserve raised the discount rate by 3 percentage points. D) The Fed conducted open market sales of Treasury securities.
Which of the following types of unemployment can the classical model not explain?
a. Structural unemployment b. Cyclical unemployment c. Seasonal unemployment d. Frictional unemployment e. Temporary unemployment
Over time, people have come to rely more on market-produced goods and less on goods that they produce for themselves. For example, busy people with high incomes, rather than cleaning their own houses, hire people to clean their houses. By itself, this change has
a. caused GDP to fall. b. not caused any change in GDP. c. caused GDP to rise. d. probably changed GDP, but in an uncertain direction; the direction of the change depends on the difference in the quality of the cleaning that has resulted.