Using cross-sectional data from the two Housing Assistance Supply Experiment (HASE) sites—Brown County, Wisconsin, and St
Joseph County, Indiana—John Mulford of Rand Research estimates the long-run "permanent" income elasticity of housing expenditures to be 0.45 for owners. Using this information, what is likely to happen to housing expenditures if the government increases income transfers to recipients in HASE sites?
A) Housing expenditures will decrease by a small amount.
B) Housing expenditures will increase significantly.
C) Housing expenditures in HASE sites will fall significantly as recipients move out of these areas to higher-income areas.
D) Housing expenditures will increase, but not significantly.
D
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a. Real GDP remains the same and current international transactions balance becomes more negative (or less positive). b. Real GDP rises and current international transactions balance becomes more negative (or less positive). c. Real GDP and current international transactions balance remain the same. d. Real GDP rises and current international transactions balance remains the same. e. There is not enough information to determine what happens to these two macroeconomic variables.
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a. Adjusted trial balance, financial reports, adjusting entries, trial balance b. Adjusted trial balance, adjusting entries, financial reports, trial balance c. Trial balance, adjusting entries, adjusted trial balance, financial reports d. Trial balance, financial reports, adjusting entries, adjusted trial balance
In the first years of the new nation, American producers
(a) found it difficult to compete with the British in manufactured goods. (b) quickly developed agricultural technology that was more efficient than that in England. (c) did not use British manufacturing technology because England had forbidden the export of its technology. (d) began to specialize in the production of manufacturing goods, selling them to England and Europe.