Your classmates from the University of Chicago are planning to go to Miami for spring break, and you are undecided about whether you should go with them. The round-trip airfares are $600, but you have a frequent-flyer coupon worth $500 that you could use to pay part of the airfare. All other costs for the vacation are exactly $900. The most you would be willing to pay for the trip is $1400. Your only alternative use for your frequent-flyer coupon is for your trip to Atlanta two weeks after the break to attend your sister's graduation, which your parents are forcing you to attend. The Chicago-Atlanta round-trip airfares are $450. If the Chicago-Atlanta round-trip air fare were $350, should you use the coupon to go to Miami?
A. Yes, your economic surplus would be $400.
B. Yes, your economic surplus would be $50.
C. No, your economic surplus would be ?$100.
D. No, your economic surplus would be ?$50.
Answer: B
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A) the demand curve for U.S. dollars shifts rightward. B) the demand curve for U.S. dollars shifts leftward. C) the supply curve of U.S. dollars shifts rightward. D) Americans choose to buy more foreign goods.
The Solow model demonstrates that
A) in the absence of productivity growth, economic growth will turn negative in the long run. B) in the absence of productivity growth, economic growth will reach a steady state of zero per-capita growth in the long run. C) productivity growth must exceed the rate of growth in the population to avoid a steady state in the long run. D) productivity growth will inevitably decline due to diminishing marginal productivity.
When the Fed raises the required reserve ratio, it:
a. lowers the cost of borrowing from the Fed, encouraging banks to make loans to the general public. b. raises the cost of borrowing from the Fed, discouraging banks from making loans to the general public. c. increases the amount of excess reserves that banks hold, encouraging them to make loans to he general public. d. increases the amount of excess reserves that banks hold, discouraging them from making loans to the general public. e. decreases the amount of excess reserves that banks hold, discouraging them from making loans to the general public.
Suppose that Trey spends all of his income on vacation trips and textbooks. If the price of a trip is $200 and the price of a textbook is $50, then the slope of his budget line (assuming vacation trips are measured on the vertical axis) would be
a. -4 b. 4 c. 0.25 d. -1.75 e. -0.25