The recessionary GDP gap is
A. Reduced by shifting aggregate demand to the left.
B. Equal to the spending multiplier.
C. The amount by which equilibrium GDP falls short of full-employment GDP.
D. Small unless the unemployment rate is very low.
Answer: C
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In perfect competition, marginal revenue
A) increases as more is sold. B) decreases as more is sold. C) is equal to the market price. D) is zero. E) is always greater than marginal cost.
Slick Shades has a constant marginal cost of production equal to $40 and the distributors have a constant marginal cost of distribution equal to $20. If Slick Shades vertically integrates with the perfectly competitive distributors, the profit-maximizing quantity will be ________ the profit-maximizing quantity if they did not vertically integrate and the combined firm will earn ________ profit if
they did not vertically integrate.
The figure above shows the wholesale demand and marginal revenue curves for Slick Shades Sunglasses, a sunglasses firm with market power. Slick Shades Sunglasses has a constant marginal cost of production and it sells to perfectly competitive independent retail distributors that have a constant marginal cost of distribution.
A) the same as; greater
B) greater than; the same
C) greater than; greater
D) the same as; the same
Someone notices that sunspot activity is high just prior to recessions and concludes that sunspots cause recessions. This person has:
A. confused association and causation. B. misunderstood the Ceteris paribus assumption. C. used normative economics to answer a positive question. D. built an untestable model.
If the slopes of the ________ involving corn and wheat in the United States and Canada are equal, specialization does not benefit either country.
A. production possibility frontiers B. marginal revenue curves C. demand curves D. supply curves