If you are indifferent between investing $1000 for one year in a U.S. Treasury security that has an interest rate of 5% or in a Canadian government security that has an interest rate of 8%, you must be expecting
A) the inflation rate in the United States will be higher than the inflation rate in Canada during the year.
B) the U.S. dollar to depreciate against the Canadian dollar by 3% during the year.
C) the U.S. dollar to appreciate against the Canadian dollar by 3% during the year.
D) productivity growth in Canada to be greater than productivity growth in the United States during the year.
C
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An economy with an expansionary gap will, in the absence of stabilization policy, eventually experience a(n) ________ in the inflation rate, leading to a(n) ________ in output.
A. decrease; increase B. increase; increase C. decrease; decrease D. increase; decrease
The causes of prosperity that link high levels of prosperity to high levels of inputs of production, without explaining why the levels of those inputs are high, are referred to as:
A) fundamental causes of prosperity. B) implicit causes of prosperity. C) proximate causes of prosperity. D) explicit causes of prosperity.
Economics: a. is a natural science like biology and chemistry
b. is a science built on survey data and declared preferences (what people say they are going to do) not on revealed preferences (how people actually behave). c. is a science concerned with reaching generalizations about human behavior, not unlike sociology or psychology. d. is concerned with predicting business conditions in the future, not with the current state of the stock market.
If a one percent change in the price of oil causes a -0.02 percent change in the quantity demanded of oil, then -0.02 is the
A. income elasticity of demand. B. price elasticity of supply. C. cross-price elasticity of demand. D. price elasticity of demand.