If a market has no externalities, marginal private costs:
A. exceed marginal social costs.
B. are below marginal social costs.
C. intersect marginal social costs.
D. equal marginal social costs.
Answer: D
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Two assumptions made in Gordon's early presentation of the IS-LM model were that the Federal Reserve has ________ control of the money supply and that the money demand function ________ subject to instability
A) precise, is B) precise, is not C) imprecise, is D) imprecise, is not
In a matched sale-purchase transaction, the Fed
A) buys securities from a dealer and the dealer agrees to buy them back. B) sells securities to a dealer and the dealer agrees to sell them back. C) buys securities from one dealer and sells the same dollar amount of securities to another dealer. D) sells securities to one dealer and buys the same dollar amount of securities from another dealer.
When a U.S. firm sells a good abroad for, say, 100 euros (assume $1.5=1euro), U.S. net exports increase by $150. These $150 in exports can be accounted for as $150 increase in capital outflow because ________
A) private consumption in the foreign country increases by $150 B) if the U.S. firm uses the 100 euros to buy a share of stock in a foreign firm, the firm is supplying U.S. capital to that foreign firm C) if the U.S. firm uses the proceeds to buy a U.S. bond, capital investment in the foreign country has increased D) all of the above E) none of the above