The monetary base increased by 20% during the contraction of 1929-1933, but the money supply fell by 25%. Explain why this occurred. How can the money supply fall when the base increases?
What will be an ideal response?
The banking crisis caused the public to fear for the safety of their deposits, increasing both the currency ratio and bank holdings of excess reserves in anticipation of deposit outflows. Both of these changes reduce the money multiplier and the money supply. In this case, the fall in the multiplier due to increases of currency and excess reserves more than offset the increase in the base, causing the money supply to fall.
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Which of the following scenarios would likely entice entrepreneurs to increase the amount of borrowing from financial institutions?
A. More competitors entering the market B. Optimism about the good or service they produce C. Anticipation of more tax regulations for small business owners D. Raised interest rates
This chapter explains that a firm that engages in second-degree price discrimination charges the same consumer different prices for different units of a good. You are a monopolist with many identical customers
Each will buy either zero, one, or two units of the good you produce. A consumer is willing to pay $50 for the first unit of this good and $20 for the second. You produce this good at a constant average and marginal cost of $5 . For simplicity, assume that if a consumer is indifferent between buying and not buying that he will buy. a. If you could not engage in second-degree price discrimination, what price would you charge? How much profit per customer would you earn? b. Suppose you offer your customers what seems to be a very generous deal: "Buy one at the regular price of $50, and get 60 percent off on a second." How many units of this good will each customer buy? How much profit per customer will you earn?
Which of the following could cause the production function to shift upward?
a. A decrease in the capital stock b. An increase in the capital stock c. An increase in population d. A decrease in population e. An increase in transfer payments
When a certain monopoly sets its price at $8 it sells 64 units. When the monopoly sets its price at $10 it sells 62 units. The marginal revenue for the firm over this range is
a. $22. b. $27. c. $54. d. $108.