An increase in the demand for the Brazilian real induces
A) an increase in the demand for Brazilian goods.
B) a decrease in the supply of dollars.
C) an increase in the real price of a dollar.
D) an increase in the dollar price of a real.
D
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Because about $12 billion in new tax revenues are expected to replenish the Treasury's account at the Fed a week later, the best policy for the Fed to pursue if it wishes to stabilize reserves is to A) do a $12 billion government security repurchase agreement. B) do a $12 billion government security reverse repurchase agreement. C) buy $12 billion in government securities outright and hold them to prevent bank reserves from falling. D) sell $12 billion in government securities to prevent bank reserves from rising.
A market failure:
A. is a source of inefficiency in an imperfectly competitive economy. B. can always be corrected by government intervention. C. cannot be corrected. D. is a theoretical proposition that has never been proven to exist.
Credit cards such as Visa and Mastercard are
a. money because they serve as a medium of exchange: it's much like "if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck . . . it's a duck!" b. money because they are issued by financial institutions, such as banks, and are accepted almost everywhere in place of currency c. accepted by merchants as if they were money, and therefore they are money d. as liquid as currency, and therefore they are money e. convenient but not money because what you are really using when you use a card is your checking account which is the money
The production decisions of perfectly competitive firms follow one of the Ten Principles of Economics, which states that rational people
a. consider sunk costs. b. equate prices to the average costs of production. c. prefer to purchase products from smaller rather than larger firms. d. think at the margin.