When prices rise, consumers and businesses hold larger money balances. This reduces the supply of loanable funds, increases the interest rate, and discourages both consumption and investment. This process is called the:
a. interest-rate effect.
b. real balance effect.
c. investment effect.
d. disinvestment effect.
a
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Refer to the Article Summary. Assume countries initially enacted protectionist measures against Chinese steel imports. If these protectionist measures were eventually eliminated, then all else equal, the price of steel in those countries would ________ and the quantity of steel demanded in those countries would ________.
A) decrease; decrease B) increase; decrease C) decrease; increase D) increase; increase
Decisions by ________ about their holdings of currency and by ________ about their holdings of excess reserves affect the money supply
A) borrowers; depositors B) banks; depositors C) depositors; borrowers D) depositors; banks
In the long run, a year-long drought that destroys most of the summer's wheat crops causes permanently:
A. higher prices. B. lower prices. C. lower output. D. None of these is true.
When the price of candy bars decreased from $0.55 to $0.45, the quantity demanded changed from 19,000 per day to 21,000 per day. In this price range, the price-elasticity coefficient (based on the midpoint formula) for candy bars is
What will be an ideal response?