The main purpose of the Fed is to
a. serve as the bankers' bank for member banks.
b. regulate interest rates.
c. print Federal Reserve Notes.
d. regulate financial institutions.
e. maintain the proper functioning of our money system.
E
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
The AD curve is a graph depicting the
A) relationship between the price level and the quantity of real GDP demanded. B) relationship between the price level and potential GDP. C) relationship between the price level and the quantity of real GDP supplied. D) business cycle during expansions and recessions. E) relationship between the aggregate quantity of real GDP demanded and the aggregate quantity of real GDP supplied.
Perfectly competitive firms are earning economic profits at a market price of $10 and an average total cost of $8. If new firms enter and increase the average total cost for all firms, the market price will ________ until ________.
A) fall; it reaches $8 B) increase; it reaches $10 C) increase; economic profit is equal to zero D) fall; economic profit is equal to zero
Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1) If your firm has a random demand, producing at the level that maximizes your expected profit will earn the same profit as the profit-maximizing production level with a known demand. 2) If a firm's demand is random, the firm's price and profit are also random. 3) If a perfectly competitive firm has a random demand and known marginal cost, producing at a level that sets expected price equal to marginal cost minimizes the reduction in expected profit. 4) If a firm's demand is known, but has random costs, it cannot maximize its actual profit. 5) When both demand and cost are random, firms cannot maximize expected profit.