Intermediate goods and services are those:
a. which are ready for final sale to the consumer.
b. which are purchased for additional processing and resale.
c. which are ready for final delivery to the retail stores.
d. whose sales are included in Gross Domestic Product.
b
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Your neighbor likes to blast 1970's rock music and the louder the better. The loud music imposes a cost on you because it disrupts your study of economics. Let D stand for the volume of his music in decibels, B for his benefits and C for your costs, where B and C are measured in dollars. For any given volume, D, your neighbor's benefit is B = 0.63D - 0.002D2 and your cost is C = 0.06D + 0.001D2. With an efficient Pigouvian tax, what noise level will your neighbor choose?
A. 90 decibels B. 95 decibels C. 115 decibels D. 345 decibels
Refer to Table 11-3. The table above refers to the relationship between the quantity of workers employed and the number of cardboard boxes produced per day by Manny's House of Boxes. The capital used to produce the boxes is fixed
Diminishing returns to labor are first observed in this example after Manny hires the ________ worker. A) second B) third C) fourth D) fifth
A World View article titled "Japan Sees Quake Damage Bill of Up to $309 Billion, Almost Four Katrinas" implies that the most likely impact from power shortages from this destruction would be
A. A leftward shift of aggregate supply. B. An increase in GDP. C. A rightward movement down the Phillips curve. D. A decrease in inflation.
An increase in the inflation rate of one country relative to another country will probably cause
A) an increase in exports for the inflating country. B) a balance of trade deficit for the inflating country. C) a current account surplus for the inflating country. D) an increase in the amount of official reserves held by the inflating country's central bank.