The efficient markets hypothesis
A) assumes that market participants form their expectations adaptively.
B) applies rational expectations to the pricing of assets.
C) applies to the stock market, but not to the bond market.
D) indicates that the stock market is efficient, but not rational.
B
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Many economists argue that an incentive to save is
A) strengthening the property rights that savers have to the physical capital they purchase. B) greater government regulation of the banking and securities industries. C) a tax on consumption rather than on income. D) a tax on income rather than a tax on consumption. E) high income tax rates.
Long-run aggregate supply reflects
A) total production in the economy at full employment. B) total spending in the economy at full employment. C) both production and spending in the economy. D) only foreign production from U.S. subsidiaries.
Compared to a sampling of other developed nations, the U.S. income distribution is more unequal than many others. What accounts for this?
A) The lowest-income families in the United States earn much less than the lowest-income households in other nations. B) Marginal income tax rates are much higher in the United States than in any other nation. C) The highest-income families in the United States earn much more than the highest-income households in other nations. D) Other nations manipulate their data to look better.
If the MPS is .25 and the economy has a recessionary expenditure gap of $5 billion, then equilibrium GDP is:
A. $5 billion below the full-employment GDP. B. $5 billion above the full-employment GDP. C. $20 billion below the full-employment GDP. D. $20 billion above the full-employment GDP.