A company has an investment project that will cost $2 million today and yield a payoff of $3 million in 5 years. What interest rate represents the cutoff between profitability and nonprofitability for this project?
The present value of the future payoff will be equal to the initial investment when the interest rate is 8.45%.
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Refer to Figure 9.2. A movement from point d to point c could be caused by a(n)
A) increase in government spending. B) increase in the price of oil. C) increase in taxes. D) increase in short-run aggregate supply.
A possible reason a nation might impose a protectionist policy such as a tariff is to
A) encourage specialization in the good in which the nation has a comparative advantage. B) protect an infant industry from foreign competitors. C) increase the level of imports. D) slow domestic production.
If no fiscal policy changes are made, suppose the current aggregate demand curve will increase horizontally by $1,000 billion and cause inflation. If the marginal propensity to consume (MPC) is 0.80, federal policymakers could follow Keynesian economics and restrain inflation by decreasing:
a. government spending by $200 billion. b. taxes by $100 billion. c. taxes by $1,000 billion. d. government spending by $1,000 billion.
The largest volume of trade in the world occurs between the United States and
a. Russia b. Japan c. Mexico d. Canada e. Britain