Refer to the information provided in Table 22.6 below to answer the question(s) that follow.
Table 22.6
Refer to Table 22.6. If 2015 is the base year, the inflation rate between 2015 and 2016 is
A. 13.8%.
B. 12.2%.
C. 9.4%.
D. 7.0%.
Answer: A
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In the circular flow model of the market system, business firms
A. buy products and resources. B. buy products and sell resources. C. sell products and resources. D. sell products and buy resources.
If a country begins to import more of a commodity, one can normally expect the price of the commodity to
A. remain unchanged in that nation. B. rise and then fall below where it was originally. C. rise in that nation. D. drop in that nation.
Suppose a relatively low income family has a monthly budget of $1,000 to allocate between food and a non-food composite good. In this problem, assume food is aggregated into a "composite food" good that is modeled on the horizontal axis, and the non-food composite good is denominated in "dollars of other consumption". The price of food is $10 per unit. Suppose further that this family's tastes exhibit kinks in indifference curves, with one such indifference curve graphed below.
a. Draw the family's budget constraint and label the optimal consumption
bundle. b. Due to unexpected droughts, the price of food rises to $20. A cash subsidy S that leaves our family with the same level of happiness as it enjoyed prior to the price increase is proposed. How much would this subsidy cost for this family? c. An alternative proposal suggests a price subsidy s that lowers the price of food for this family from $20 to ($20-s), with s set sufficiently high to allow the family to reach its original utility level. d. Yet a third proposal suggests a price subsidy that leaves in tact the new price of $20 for the first 20 units of food bought by the family but then lowers the price for this family to $(20-s') while also making the family just as happy as it was before. How high does s' have to be to accomplish this? e. If cost is all you care about, how would you rank these three policies? What if you care about food consumption for this family and believe a policy is better if it results in more food consumption? What will be an ideal response?
Suppose an economist stated that Brazil had achieved its potential GDP 2013. This would imply that at this level of real GDP, Brazil experienced
A) peak in its business cycle in 2013. B) unemployment equal to zero. C) inflation equal to zero. D) full employment. E) a negative Okun Ga