Which of the following statements is correct?
a. It is monetary policy and not tax policy that influences interest rates.
b. Tax reductions play little role in influencing output.
c. Marginal tax rates today are lower than they have ever been in U.S. history.
d. Budget deficits show little correlation with interest rates.
e. None of the above.
E
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Suppose that good X is on the horizontal axis and all other goods (measured in dollars) are on the vertical axis in the consumer-choice diagram. If the consumer gains $10 in income, then
a. the new budget line is parallel to and lies 10 units to the left of the old budget line. b. the budget line shifts up by 10 dollars, with no change in the slope. c. the vertical intercept of the budget line shifts up by $10, but the horizontal intercept remains unchanged. d. the slope of the budget line increases by 10 percent.
A firm's marginal resource cost curve is
a. horizontal only if the firm is a price taker in the product market b. horizontal only if the firm is a price taker in the resource market c. vertical only if the firm is a price taker in the product market d. vertical only if the firm is a price taker in the resource market e. horizontal only if the firm is a price taker in both the product and resource markets
Refer to Figure 4-4. The figure above represents the market for iced tea. Assume that this is a competitive market. Which of the following is true?
A) Both 10,000 and 30,000 are economically inefficient rates of output.
B) If the price of iced tea is $3, consumers will purchase more than the economically efficient output.
C) If the price of iced tea is $3, the output will be economically efficient but there will be a deadweight loss.
D) If the price of iced tea is $3, producers will sell 30,000 units of iced tea but this output will be economically inefficient.
Consumer spending is __________
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).