Crowding out occurs when public provision of a good substitutes for private provision.
A. True
B. False
C. Uncertain
A. True
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The relationship between the unemployment rate and the natural unemployment rate is that the unemployment rate
A) fluctuates about the natural rate. B) equals the natural rate. C) is always below the natural rate. D) is always above the natural rate.
Empirical evidence shows that the quantity theory of money is a good theory of inflation
A) in the long run, but not in the short run. B) in the short run, but not in the longrun. C) in both the long run and the short run. D) not in either the long run nor the short run.
Which scenario below would lead to lower profits as we double the inputs used by the firm?
A) Increasing returns to scale with constant input prices B) Constant returns to scale with constant input prices C) Constant returns to scale with rising input prices (perhaps because the firm is not a price-taker in the input markets) D) all of the above
Which of the following correctly describes a way in which deficit spending can impose a burden on future generations? I
Failure to allocate deficit spending to uses that boost future real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) will require taxing future generations at a higher rate to repay the resulting higher public debt. II. Government deficits that lead to higher employment and real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the future will generate increased income taxes for future governments, which will respond by spending the higher tax revenues, creating higher future government budget deficits. III. Other things being equal, deficit spending fuels increased consumption of goods and services by the current generation that crowds out capital investment, thereby leaving future generations with a smaller stock of capital than otherwise would have existed. A) I only B) II only C) I and III only D) II and III only