The Phillips curve is considered unstable because:
a. inflation and unemployment sometimes rise or fall at the same time.
b. unemployment has no effect on inflation
c. inflation is related to changes in gross investment.
d. the inflation rate becomes constant in the long run.
a
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The Wong family consumes 3 pounds of fish and 5 pounds of chicken per month. The price of fish is $8 per pound and chicken is $4 per pound
a. What is the amount of income allocated to fish and chicken consumption? b. What is the price ratio (the price of fish relative to the price of chicken)? c. Explain the meaning of the price ratio you computed. d. If the Wongs maximize utility, what must the ratio of the marginal utility of fish to the marginal utility of chicken be equal to? e. If the price of chicken rises, will the Wong family consume more chicken, less chicken, or the same amount of chicken? Explain your answer using the rule of equal marginal utility per dollar.
________ imposes a conceptual structure and inherent discipline on policy makers, but without eliminating all flexibility
A) Constrained discretion B) A policy rule C) A discretionary policy D) The Taylor rule
If only one firm in an industry could take advantage of a reduced wage and all other firms continue paying the old wage, how would one best describe the one firm's reaction to this reduced wage assuming labor is the only variable input? The
marginal revenue product of labor curve A) would remain unchanged, and the firm would hire more labor at the lower wage. B) shifts to the left, and the firm hires more labor at the lower wage on the new curve. C) shifts to the right, and the firm hires more labor at the lower wage on the new curve. D) shifts to the left, and the firm hires less labor at the lower wage on the new curve. E) shifts to the right, and the firm hires less labor at the lower wage on the new curve.
For an inferior good, the income and substitution effects
A) work together. B) work against each other. C) can work together or in opposition to each other depending upon their relative magnitudes. D) always exactly cancel each other.