When producers anticipate that the price of their product will increase in the future
A) the supply curve will shift to the right.
B) the supply curve will shift to the left.
C) the current production will move along on the supply curve.
D) they will immediately lobby Congress to adjust prices now.
Answer: B
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The law of diminishing returns states that as a firm increases
A) all the inputs is uses, the marginal product of each of these inputs always decreases. B) a variable input, with a given quantity of fixed inputs, the firm's marginal cost eventually decreases. C) a variable input, with a given quantity of fixed inputs, the marginal product of the variable input eventually decreases. D) a variable input, given the quantity of fixed inputs, the firm's average total cost will eventually decrease.
A steep IS curve implies that
A) an increase in money supply will change output by a relatively small amount. B) a decrease in taxes will change output by a relatively small amount. C) changes in money supply will have large multiplier effects on output. D) A and B.
Whenever the opportunity costs of goods are significantly different in different countries, there are gains from specialization and trade
a. True b. False
The demand curve for labor indicates that:
a. as the real wage rate increases, employers will hire more workers. b. as the nominal wage rate increases, employers will hire more workers. c. as the nominal wage rate decreases, the real wage rate increases. d. as the real wage rate increases, employers will hire fewer workers. e. as the real wage rate decreases the nominal wage rate increases.