The expectation of future devaluation causes a balance of payments crisis marked by
A) a sharp rise in reserves and a fall in the home interest rate below the world interest rate.
B) a sharp fall in reserves and an even bigger fall in the home interest rate below the world interest rate.
C) a sharp fall in reserves and a rise in the home interest rate above the world interest rate.
D) a sharp rise in reserves and an even greater rise in the home interest rate above the world interest.
E) a sharp rise in reserves and a rise in the home interest rate to the level of the world interest.
C
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A. export supply curve lies above its import demand curve. B. export supply curve is upward-sloping. C. domestic price equals the world price. D. import demand curve is downward-sloping.
Suppose a price-taking firm uses a single input - labor - to produce an output x. The production technology has diminishing marginal product of labor throughout. a. On a graph with labor hours on the horizontal and output on the vertical axis, illustrate the production frontier for this firm. b. For a given wage rate w and output price p, illustrate three isoprofit curves corresponding to profit levels ?
What will be an ideal response?
A decrease in demand, with supply constant, results in a(n)
a. increase in equilibrium price and a decrease in equilibrium quantity b. decrease in equilibrium price and a decrease in equilibrium quantity c. increase in equilibrium price and an increase in equilibrium quantity d. increase in equilibrium price and an ambiguous effect on equilibrium quantity e. decrease in supply
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a. how scarcity increases opportunities to meet ends. b. how markets overcome scarcity. c. one goal and three tasks. d. how to use limited means to meet unlimited wants. e. wants versus needs.