Pure economic rent is a payment to a resource that
A) has a high opportunity cost.
B) has a perfectly inelastic supply.
C) has a negative opportunity cost.
D) has a perfectly elastic demand.
B
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Refer to the table below. The law of diminishing marginal returns becomes evident after ________ units of output are produced.OutputPer DayNumber ofEmployeeHours Per Day00331662994132716511
A. 66 B. 33 C. 132 D. 99
If the real interest rate is below the equilibrium real interest rate
A) lenders will be unable to find borrowers willing to borrow all of the available funds and the real interest rate will fall. B) borrowers will be unable to borrow all of the funds they want to borrow and the real interest rate will rise. C) lenders will be unable to find borrowers willing to borrow all of the available funds and the real interest rate will rise. D) borrowers will be unable to borrow all of the funds they want to borrow and the real interest rate will fall.
What action did many Japanese car manufacturers take in response to the stronger yen following the 2007-2009 financial crisis?
A) They only accepted payments in the form of yen. B) They chose to target China as the primary market for exports. C) They abandoned the market in the United States. D) They moved their production to the United States.
Suppose that the production function for the economy is Y = AK1/4L3/4. Assume that real GDP is $8,000 billion, capital stock is $32,000 billion, and the labor supply is 120 million (or 0.120 billion) workers
Total factor productivity for this economy is A) 16.50 B) 1,016.52 C) 2,083.33 D) 2,933.65