If people expect the price of packaged coffee to rise next week, coffee demand will:
A. decrease now.
B. increase now.
C. stay the same now and increase next week.
D. stay the same now and decrease next week.
Answer: B
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Can mutually profitable trade take place between the two countries? Explain your answer.
While smoking is on the decline in the United States, China is still puffing away madly. That's not because the government is eager to protect its citizens from the hazards of smoking. It's because China is eager to protect its own tobacco industry which is a state monopoly. How would entry of foreign companies into the tobacco market affect the economic profit of the state monopoly?
A) Its economic profits would increase because of rent seeking activity. B) Its economic profits would decrease because of increased competition. C) Its economic profits would increase because of increased competition. D) Its economic profits would decrease because of rent seeking activity.
According to the new classical view, budget deficits will
a. cause real interest rates to rise, which will decrease aggregate demand, output, and employment. b. lead to an expansion in spending, which will stimulate both real output and employment. c. fail to stimulate aggregate demand because people will save more in order to pay the higher future taxes implied by the expansion in government debt. d. lead to inflation because the deficits expand the money supply.
France has a higher natural rate of unemployment than the United States. This suggests that
a. France is at a higher point on its long-run Phillips curve and so has higher inflation than the United States. b. France is at a lower point on its long-run Phillips curve and so has lower inflation than the United States. c. France's Phillips curve is to the left of that of the United States, possibly because they have higher inflation. d. France's Phillips curve is to the right of that of the United States, possibly because they have more generous unemployment compensation.