A recession can best be defined as a period of time in which
a. total output of the economy falls.
b. total output of the economy rises very slowly.
c. total unemployment falls.
d. total international trade fails to rise.
e. Both a and c
a
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A business borrows from a bank at 7 percent but expects 3 percent general inflation in the economy. What are the nominal and real rates of interest facing this borrower?
What will be an ideal response?
U.S. opponents of NAFTA argued that the agreement will hurt the United States. In their view, NAFTA's greatest harm will be its
A) harmonization of labor policies. B) harmonization of environmental policies. C) harmonization of the use of pesticides and herbicides. D) job destruction and downward pressure on U.S. wages. E) harmonization of product safety standards.
In the Heckscher-Ohlin model, what assumption is made about opportunity costs?
What will be an ideal response?
The skill-biased character of technological change in recent decades has tended to cause ________
A) a decrease in the demand for college-educated labor B) a higher rate of unemployment among college-educated labor C) a lower rate of unemployment among unskilled labor D) an increase in demand for college-educated labor