If the price elasticity of demand is elastic, then:
A. Ed < 1.
B. consumers are relatively not very responsive to a price increase.
C. an increase in the price will increase total revenue.
D. there are likely a large number of substitute products available.
Answer: D
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A. tax receipts to rise and government spending to fall. B. tax receipts to fall and government spending to rise. C. both tax receipts and government spending to rise. D. both tax receipts and government spending to fall.
One factor contributing to the decline in cost advantages that banks once had is the
A) decline in the importance of checkable deposits from over 60 percent of banks' liabilities to 2 percent today. B) decline in the importance of savings deposits from over 60 percent of banks' liabilities to under 15 percent today. C) decline in the importance of checkable deposits from over 40 percent of banks' liabilities to 15 percent today. D) decline in the importance of savings deposits from over 40 percent of banks' liabilities to under 20 percent today.
With Panel Data, regression software typically uses an "entity-demeaned" algorithm because
A) the OLS formula for the slope in the linear regression model contains deviations from means already. B) there are typically too many time periods for the regression package too handle. C) the number of estimates to calculate can become extremely large when there are a large number of entities. D) deviations from means sum up to zero.
Based on the data in the above table, then if opportunity costs are constant, the opportunity cost of producing movies in the United States is ________, and the opportunity cost of producing movies in Switzerland is ________
A) 2 movies; 2 cuckoo clocks B) 2.5 movies; 0.4 cuckoo clocks C) 0.4 cuckoo clocks; 0.5 cuckoo clocks D) 2.5 cuckoo clocks; 2 cuckoo clocks