Considering only its direct effect on income, expansionary fiscal policy tends to:
A. increase exports.
B. decrease the trade deficit.
C. increase imports.
D. decrease imports.
Answer: C
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Suppose two companies, Macrosoft and Apricot, and considering whether to develop a new product, a touch-screen t-shirt. The payoffs to each of developing a touch-screen t-shirt depend upon the actions of the other, as shown in the payoff matrix below (the payoffs are given in millions of dollars). 
Suppose Apricot makes its decision first, and then Macrosoft makes its decision after seeing Apricot's choice. What will be the equilibrium outcome of this game?
A. Both Apricot and Macrosoft will develop a touch-screen t-shirt. B. Macrosoft will develop a touch-screen t-shirt, and Apricot will not. C. Apricot will develop a touch-screen t-shirt, and Macrosoft will not. D. Neither Apricot nor Macrosoft will develop a touch-screen t-shirt.
Factors that influence labor productivity include ________
A) the inflation rate, the real wage rate, and the exchange rate B) the labor demand curve C) physical capital, the real wage rate, and technology D) physical capital, human capital, and technology
The Fed's purchase of U.S. government securities constitutes a(n):
a. contractionary policy because it lowers the amount of total reserves in the banking system. b. contractionary policy because it lowers the amount of excess reserves in the banking system. c. expansionary policy because it raises the amount of total reserves in the banking system. d. expansionary policy because it lowers the amount of total reserves in the banking system. e. expansionary policy because it raises the amount of required reserves in the banking system.
Economic theory looks at social coordination as a process of
A) continuing mutual adjustments to the situations created by the actions of others.
B) continuous adjustment of extremes to conform to the average.
C) passing information up from below and instructions or commands down from above.
D) sacrificing personal interest to the public or general interest.
E) sacrificing the public interest to self-interest.