Real GDP is preferred to nominal GDP as a measure of economic performance because:
A. nominal GDP uses current prices and thus may over- or understate true changes in output.
B. nominal GDP only includes goods and excludes services.
C. nominal GDP is not adjusted for population changes.
D. real GDP accounts for changes in the quality of goods and services produced.
Answer: A
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Prices of PlayStation 4 game systems are similar at almost every large retailer and little price competition occurs among these retailers. An explanation for this is
A) retailers are in a prisoner's dilemma which causes them to all charge the same price for PlayStation 4 game systems. B) pricing PlayStation 4 game systems is a repeated game. Over a long period of time a cooperative equilibrium has been reached where retailers charge high prices for these systems. C) retailers are all price takers. D) retailers have lobbied state governments to allow them to collude legally to set the prices of certain products.
Exhibit 4-2 Supply and demand curves
In Exhibit 4-2 an increase in supply would cause a movement from which equilibrium point to another, other things being equal?
A. E1 to E2. B. E1 to E3. C. E4 to E1. D. E3 to E4.
Joanne left her last job, in which she was earning $60,000, in order to form her own consulting business. Her revenues for the first year of consulting were $210,000. During that year, she hired two assistants for $25,000 each and spent $25,000 on office equipment. In addition, she incurred $75,000 in miscellaneous expenses. Her accounting profit that first year was
A) $0. B) $60,000. C) $210,000. D) $50,000.
Sellers bear the entire incidence of a tax on a good. This outcome can occur if
A) supply is perfectly inelastic. B) the good is an inferior good. C) demand is perfectly inelastic. D) the demand curve is downward sloping and the supply curve is upward sloping. E) supply is perfectly elastic.