A reduction in the ratio of the money supply to GDP is
a. financial deepening
b. inflation
c. financial repression
d. real interest rate
e. none of the above
C
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The value of marginal product of labor is the increase in
A) revenue created by producing one more unit of output. B) revenue created by hiring one more unit of labor. C) total product necessary to make revenue increase by one dollar. D) total product generated by hiring one more unit of labor.
The above table shows the total product schedule for the campus book store. When the book store is selling 60 books per hour it is certain that
A) marginal costs are increasing, but average variable costs are still decreasing. B) both marginal and average costs are decreasing. C) both marginal and average costs are increasing. D) hiring one more employee per hour will lead to fewer books being sold.
Loretta agrees to lend Ted $500,000 to buy computers for his consulting firm. They agree to a nominal interest rate of 8%. Both expect the inflation rate to be 2%
(a) Calculate the expected real interest rate. (b) If inflation turns out to be 3% over the life of the loan, what is the real interest rate? Who gains from unexpectedly high inflation, Loretta or Ted? (c) If inflation turns out to be 1% over the life of the loan, what is the real interest rate? Who gains from unexpectedly low inflation, Loretta or Ted?
The principle that "More is better" results in indifference curves
A) sloping down. B) not intersecting. C) reflecting greater preferences the further they are from the origin. D) All of the above.