Farmers often find that large bumper crops are associated with declines in their gross incomes. This suggests that:
A. farm products are normal goods.
B. farm products are inferior goods.
C. the price elasticity of demand for farm products is less than 1.
D. the price elasticity of demand for farm products is greater than 1.
Answer: C
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a. -$200 billion b. -$100 billion c. $100 billion d. $200 billion
The strategy for the Stackelberg Leader is
A. to take account of the effect of its own behavior on the rival firm's quantity choice. B. collusion. C. to sell a marginally higher quantity of goods than the rival. D. to sell at a marginally lower price than the rival.
If the natural rate of unemployment equals 8 percent and the actual rate of unemployment equals 6 percent, then cyclical unemployment equals:
A. 10 percent. B. 2 percent. C. -1 percent. D. -2 percent.
An increase in the level of total factor productivity will lead to
A) an increase in the capital-labor ratio and an increase in real GDP worker. B) an increase in investment and a decrease in depreciation. C) an upward shift of the break-even investment line and an increase in the capital-labor ratio. D) a higher rate of dilution and lower break-even investment.