If the expected path of 1-year interest rates over the next five years is 1 percent, 2 percent, 3 percent, 4 percent, and 5 percent, the expectations theory predicts that the bond with the highest interest rate today is the one with a maturity of
A) two years.
B) three years.
C) four years.
D) five years.
D
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If the price is $12 per pizza, the perfectly competitive firm in the above figure is
A) making an economic profit. B) making zero economic profit. C) incurring an economic loss. D) More information about the firm's total cost is needed to determine if the firm has a positive economic profit, zero economic profit, or an economic loss.
Changes in government spending are not likely causes of business cycles because changes in government spending predict
A) countercyclical real wages. B) procyclical real wages. C) countercyclical employment. D) procyclical employment.
A clear conclusion from offshoring debates and analyses is that:
a. Offshoring increases overall unemployment in the nation from which offshoring takes place. b. Offshoring's main effect is to decrease GDP in the nation from which offshoring takes. c. Offshoring could increase or decrease unemployment in the nation from which it takes place; the result depends on the circumstances. d. Offshoring results in net losses to the global economic community.
If it is a cultural norm to believe that "a busy person is an important person," then we would expect the labor:
A. demand in that culture to be relatively greater at any wage. B. supply in that culture to be relatively lower at any wage. C. demand in that culture to be relatively lower at any wage. D. supply in that culture to be relatively greater at any wage.