Commodity money is money that:
a. has no value as a commodity.
b. is not backed by gold or silver and is not a legal tender.
c. may go out of circulation with an increase in its intrinsic value.
d. always has a face value greater than the intrinsic value.
e. is solely used in barter exchanges.
c
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A young chef is considering opening his own sushi bar. To do so, he would have to quit his current job, which pays $20,000 a year, and take over a store building that he owns and currently rents to his brother for $6,000 a year. His expenses at the sushi bar would be $50,000 for food and $2,000 for gas and electricity. What are his implicit costs?
a. $26,000 b. $66,000 c. $78,000 d. $52,000 e. $72,000
The assumption(s) made to construct a kinked-demand oligopoly model is (are) that:
a. all firms in the industry will ignore the price changes made by any one firm. b. any price decrease will be ignored, but price increases will be followed. c. all firms will follow a price decrease but will ignore any price increase. d. all price changes made by any firm will be followed by all of the other firms. e. price can go up, but it cannot go down.
To move quickly to turn around the crisis during 2007-2008, the U.S. Federal Reserve relied on:
a. lowering taxes. b. removing restrictions on collateral, adding more categories of securities purchased by the Federal Reserve, and expanding its operations with nonbank dealers. b. tightening up credit rules and keeping banks out of trouble. d. admonishing the administration for its excessive debt situation.
The demand will be ________ if the consumer has ________ substitute goods to choose from
A. elastic; no B. elastic; less C. inelastic; more D. elastic; more