If a government started with a budget deficit and moved to a surplus, domestic investment
a. and the real exchange rate would rise.
b. and the real exchange rate would fall.
c. would rise and the real exchange rate would fall.
d. would fall and the real exchange rate would rise.
c
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Suppose you and I are identical. We put up fireworks in our adjacent backyards on a national holiday, and we can both enjoy each other's fireworks. a. Can you identify an externality? b. Can you identify any missing markets? c. Do you think we will provide more or less than the efficient number of fireworks? d. If we could vote on a tax to be imposed on us fund fireworks in our back yards, would we vote for a lump sum tax (imposed equally on both of us) that will cause more fireworks to be put up than what we would put up on our own? e. Suppose instead the government implements a Pigouvian subsidy. How would the number of fireworks compare to what would happen in (d)? How much of a subsidy would you think we would both get for every dollar of fireworks each of us individually buys?
What will be an ideal response?
When the price of cable modems decreased from $100 to $85, the number of cable modems produced fell from 1,000 per week to 850 per week. Using this information, we know the supply of cable modems is
A) elastic. B) inelastic. C) unit elastic. D) perfectly inelastic.
If Bob earns $20,000 a year and pays $2,000 in taxes, and Cindy earns $40,000 a year and pays $4,000 in taxes, then Bob’s tax rate is _______ and Cindy’s tax rate is_____.
A. 5%, 10% B. 2%, 4% C. 10%, 10% D. 20%, 10%
Great Bear Bank receives two new deposits of $100,000 and $140,000. If it has a required reserve ratio of 8 percent, how much of these deposits must Gold Bear keep in reserves?
a. $30,000 b. $120,200 c. $19,200 d. $220,800