The consumer price index tries to gauge how much incomes must rise to maintain
a. an increasing standard of living.
b. a constant standard of living.
c. a decreasing standard of living.
d. the highest standard of living possible.
b
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A) pure democracies B) kleptocracies C) Mugabes D) antediluvians
The two kinds of banks are ________ banks and ________ banks.
A. brokerage; investment B. federal reserve; private C. private; commercial D. commercial; investment
If you advertise and your rival advertises, you each will earn $4 million in profits. If neither of you advertises, you will each earn $10 million in profits. However, if one of you advertises and the other does not, the firm that advertises will earn $1 million and the non-advertising firm will earn $5 million. If you and your rival plan to be in business for 10 years, then the Nash equilibrium is:
A. for each firm to advertise every year. B. for neither firm to advertise in early years, but to advertise in later years. C. for each firm to advertise in early years, but not advertise in later years. D. for each firm to not advertise in any year.
A firm is a price taker if
A) seeks to maximize revenue rather than profit. B) cannot influence the market price. C) searches for the best price and then takes the highest profits possible. D) buys inputs for firms.