A decrease in expected inflation will
A) increase the natural rate of unemployment. B) shift the short-run Phillips curve to the left.
C) shift the long-run Phillips curve to the left. D) reduce real wages.
B
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In an oligopoly market
A) individual firms pay no attention to the behavior of other firms. B) one firm's pricing decision affects all the other firms. C) the pricing decisions of all other firms have no effect on an individual firm. D) advertising of one firm has no effect on all other firms.
If an airport decides to expand by building an additional passenger terminal, and in doing so it lowers its average cost per airplane landing, then the expansion would provide ________ to the airlines
A) higher marginal costs but lower total costs B) higher average costs but lower total costs C) economies of scale D) diseconomies of scale
Income elasticity of demand is defined as
A) the change in income divided by the change in quantity. B) the change in price divided by the change in income. C) the percentage change in demand divided by the percentage change in income. D) the change in income multiplied by the change in quantity.
One reason stagflation is difficult to recover from is because:
A. less output requires less inputs to be hired. B. prices tend to adjust more quickly downward than upward. C. wages are sticky downward. D. input prices increase with output prices.