Structures in the economy increase aggregate demand when the economy is in recession and decrease aggregate demand when the economy is inflationary are known as:
A. tax transfers.
B. automatic stabilizers.
C. accelerators.
D. depreciation.
Answer: B
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a. pay little or no attention to which firms advertise and which firms do not advertise. b. are often more impressed by a firm's willingness to spend money on advertising than they are by the content of the advertisement. c. are often more impressed by low-cost advertisements than they are by high-cost advertisements. d. gain little or no information about product quality from advertisements.
During the last tax year you lent money at a nominal rate of 6 percent. Actual inflation was 1.5 percent, but people had been expecting 1 percent . This difference between actual and expected inflation
a. transferred wealth from the borrower to you and caused your after-tax real interest rate to be 0.5 percentage points higher than what you had expected. b. transferred wealth from the borrower to you and caused your after-tax real interest rate to be more than 0.5 percentage points higher than what you had expected. c. transferred wealth from you to the borrower and caused your after-tax real interest rate to be 0.5 percentage points lower than what you had expected. d. transferred wealth from you to the borrower and caused your after-tax real interest rate to be more than 0.5 percentage points lower than what you had expected.
A business owner makes 50 items a day. She spends 8 hours in producing those items. If hired elsewhere she could have earned $10 an hour. The item sells for $10 each. Production occurs seven days a week. If the explicit (other production) costs total $10,000 a month the economic profit for the month (30 working/selling days) equals:
a. $2,600 b. $5,000 c. $2,240 d. $11,760
To have shadow prices you have to have:
A. opportunity costs. B. free markets. C. laws. D. money prices.