What is the interaction between the Federal Reserve districts and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System?
What will be an ideal response?
The Federal Reserve System divides the nation into 12 regions, each with a Federal Reserve Bank. Each Federal Reserve Bank has a nine-member board of directors. Of the nine members, six are elected by the commercial banks within the Federal Reserve district and three are appointed by the Board of Governors. The directors of each Federal Reserve Bank appoint the president of the bank, subject to approval from the Board of Governors.
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A) a technological advance B) a decrease in the wages of labor used in production of the good C) a fall in the price of a substitute in production D) an increase in the price of the good
Spencer and Brander's model highlights the conventional assumption that
A) government involvement in business or in the economy tends to fail. B) government subsidies tend to waste taxpayer's money. C) government subsidies cannot create a successfully competing export. D) government tends to distort when it displaces Adam Smith's Invisible Hand. E) government subsidies can produce profits that exceed the subsidy's value.
In the fooling model, real wages
A) are countercyclical. B) are procyclical. C) are constant. D) show no clear cyclical pattern.
Empirical evidence from electric-power-producing firms suggests that
A) all electric-power-producing firms are natural monopolies. B) no electric-power-producing firms are natural monopolies. C) the largest electric-power-producing firms are natural monopolies. D) the smallest electric-power-producing firms are natural monopolies.