Some cities finance their airports with a departure tax: every person leaving the city by plane is charged a small fixed dollar amount that is used to help pay for building and running the airport. The departure tax follows the:
a. benefits-received principle.
b. ability-to-pay principle.
c. flat-rate taxation principle.
d. public-choice principle.
a
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Two economists can agree that raising the minimum wage creates unemployment yet one might argue that raising the minimum wage is a good policy and the other that it is a bad policy
Why can this difference exist? Be sure to use the terms positive and normative in your answer.
Countries such as the United States that have large populations tend to have
A) higher trade-to-GDP ratios. B) lower trade-to-GDP ratios. C) relatively greater capital outflows. D) relatively smaller capital outflows. E) None of the above.
If an economy experiences an increase in its labor force, everything else constant, then at constant world prices, it will
A) produce more of the labor intensive good and less of the capital intensive good. B) produce more of both goods. C) produce the same amount of both goods. D) produce less of the labor intensive good and more of the capital intensive good.
The exchange rate is kept the same across geographically-separate markets by
A) hedging. B) speculation. C) government regulation. D) arbitrage.