What is the relationship between debt intolerance and the inflation tax?
What will be an ideal response?
A government that is unable to borrow (at a reasonable cost) is likely to resort to selling its debt to the central bank, raising the money supply and inflation. As the price level rises, the real seignorage falls, so that a constant budget deficit requires an ever larger growth rate of the money supply and acceleration of inflation. This phenomenon helps to explain how creditors become intolerant of the government's debt in the first place.
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Economies of scale were initially seen between
A) 1800 and 1840. B) 1970 and 1980. C) 1840 and 1910. D) none of these choices.
Emma works full time during the day as an economist and faces a 90 percent marginal tax rate. If Emma were to get an offer to work a second job in the evenings doing consulting work for a local business for $10,000 per year, how much of this additional income would she be able to keep as net pay after taxes?
a. $1,000 b. $4,000 c. $6,000 d. $10,000
The inclusion of external costs in the decision making process determining equilibrium price and quantity leads to
A) lower priced items and increased quantity. B) lower priced items and a decline in quantity. C) higher priced items and increased quantity. D) higher priced items and a decline in quantity.
Refer to Scenario 13.2 below to answer the question(s) that follow. SCENARIO 13.2: The government of Stratospheria is currently inviting investors to bid for the exclusive right to provide cable television service to its residents. The market demand for this service is P=55-0.01Q, where Q is the number of households that would subscribe to the cable service and P is the monthly fee charged to the subscribers. The associated marginal revenue curve is MR=55-0.02Q. Fun Cable Company is interested in bidding for the right to provide cable service in Stratospheria. It has a constant average and marginal cost of $5 for providing cable service to each household.Refer to Scenario 13.2. At what level of output (number of households) is Fun Cable Company's total revenue maximized?
A. 2,500 B. 2,750 C. 5,000 D. Indeterminate from the given information.