Refer to Labor Demand and Labor Supply. Suppose firms in the industry earn zero profit. The total rental payment made to the industry's capital is measured by
a. area A.
b. area B.
c. area A + B.
d. area B + C.
a. area A.
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Exhibit 36-1 Bond FaceValueof Bond Price ofthe Bond Annual CouponPayment A $1,000 $850 $25 B $1,000 $950 $41 C $1,000 $1,100 $52 D $1,000 $1,100 $32 E $1,000 $1,000 $50 Refer to Exhibit 36-1. The yield on bond E is approximately
A. 37.5 percent. B. 0.38 percent. C. 0.45 percent. D. 5.0 percent.
Suppose that a small economy that had previously been closed becomes open. If its real interest rate had previously been below the world real interest rate, we would expect that
A) the country's real interest rate would remain below the world level. B) the country would become a net lender abroad. C) the country would become a new borrower abroad. D) the amount of loanable funds supplied in the country would decline.
You have collected time series for various macroeconomic variables to test if there is a single cointegrating relationship among multiple variables. Formulate the null hypothesis and compare the EG–ADF statistic to its critical value
(a) Canadian unemployment rate, Canadian Inflation Rate, United States unemployment rate, United States inflation rate; t = (-3.374). (b) Approval of United States presidents (Gallup poll), cyclical unemployment rate, inflation rate, Michigan Index of Consumer Sentiment; t = (-3.837). (c) The log of real GDP, log of real government expenditures, log of real money supply (M2); t = (-2.23). (d) Briefly explain how you could potentially improve on VAR(p) forecasts by using a cointegrating vector. What will be an ideal response?
A firm's ability to successfully practice price discrimination is greater
a. the more difficult it is to identify a customer's willingness to pay b. the more standardized the product offered by the firm c. the more difficult it is to transfer its product from person to person d. the more active the resale market is for their product e. in goods-producing markets than in service-producing markets