If your professor decided to give all of his students the highest grade in the class, would that affect your classmates' incentives to study?

What will be an ideal response?


If every student were given the same grade irrespective of how he or she did on an exam, students' incentive to study. Even without studying, a student would be ‘guaranteed' a higher grade than he would have received otherwise. Eventually, one can expect students in the class to stop studying altogether.

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The goal of expansionary fiscal policy with respect to output is to:

A. increase spending and shift aggregate demand to the right in an effort to reach full employment output. B. increase spending and aggregate demand to get back to an output level the government is comfortable with. C. decrease government spending in an attempt to get the private economy back on track. D. increase spending and shift aggregate demand to the left in an effort to reach full employment output.

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