Which of the following statements is true?
A) A decrease in the crime rate increases GDP as people will spend more on security.
B) Household production is counted in GDP as it amounts to real production.
C) GDP accounting rules do not adjust for production that pollutes the economy.
D) GDP growth distributes income equally to people in the economy.
Answer: C
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Suppose an American worker can make 20 pairs of shoes or grow 100 apples per day. On the other hand, a Canadian workercan produce 10 pairs of shoes or grow 20 apples per day. Which of the following statements is true? The United States has an absolute advantage:
A. and a comparative advantage in the production of shoes. B. and a comparative advantage in the production of apples. C. in the production of both goods and a comparative advantage in the production of neither good. D. in the production of both goods and a comparative advantage in the production of both goods.
Why would a firm price discriminate? Because price discrimination allows the firm to
a. increase consumer surplus b. create brand multiplication c. select the best consumers who are willing to pay the highest price d. convert consumer surplus into economic profit e. shift its demand curve to the right
The practice of increasing a nominal quantity each period by an amount equal to the percentage increase in a specified price index is called:
A. the Fisher effect. B. deflating. C. indexing. D. a substitution bias.
Suppose that total sales in an industry in a particular year are $600 million and sales by the top four sellers are $200 million, $150 million, $100 million, and $50 million, respectively. We can conclude that:
A. price leadership exists in this industry. B. the concentration ratio is more than 80 percent. C. this industry is a differentiated oligopoly. D. the firms in this industry face a kinked demand curve.