Why is the production possibilities frontier concave to (bowed away from) the origin?
A) Consumers have declining marginal utility, so their relative satisfaction from consuming a good changes as they move from high levels to low levels of consumption.
B) The shape of the curve is due to the marginal costs of producing the two goods. At high levels of output for a particular good, the marginal cost is very high, and the firm can use the same inputs to produce a relatively large quantity of the other good.
C) For a production possibilities frontier, we no longer assume firms are price takers, and the input prices and output prices change as the firms alter their mix of outputs.
D) none of the above
B
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A) consumption, saving, rental income, corporate profits, and investment. B) employee compensation, net interest, rental income, corporate profits, and proprietor's income. C) employee compensation, consumption, rental income, corporate profits, and proprietor's income. D) employee compensation, saving, rental income, corporate profits, and investment.
Financial institutions for the poor have been neglected because
a. large banks considered rural branches to be unprofitable b. economists and others believed that poor people were unable to save c. the poor often save in non-monetary forms d. small farmers and business people were considered to be untrustworthy borrowers e. all of the above
Suppose a currency's value in the foreign exchange market is determined solely by market supply and demand without any intervention by the government authority, the currency has
A) a fixed exchange rate. B) a gold standard. C) a price control in its exchange rate. D) a floating exchange rate.
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a. MPC ? 1. b. (MPC ?1) / MPC. c. 1 / MPC. d. 1 / (1 ? MPC).