A period during which GDP exceeds its potential level is best known as a(n)
a. expansion
b. contraction
c. boom
d. recession
e. depression
C
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Restaurants catering to both a lunch and dinner trade are likely to mark their prices up above the cost of the food more for dinner than for lunch because
A) the demand is greater at dinner. B) the demand is less at dinner. C) the demand is less elastic at dinner. D) the demand is more elastic at dinner.
Which of the following will cause the demand curve for a normal good to shift to the right?
a. a decrease in income b. an increase in the price of a complementary good c. a decrease in the price of the good d. an increase in the price of a substitute good e. an expectation of a future price decline
Net capital outflow is defined as the purchase of
a. foreign assets by domestic residents minus the purchase of domestic assets by foreign residents. b. foreign assets by domestic residents minus the purchase of foreign goods and services by domestic residents. c. domestic assets by foreign residents minus the purchase of domestic goods and services by foreign residents. d. domestic assets by foreign residents minus the purchase of foreign assets by domestic residents.
Professional sports teams will sometimes seek public subsidies for stadium financing projects that produce large benefits for a relatively small number of fans and impose small costs on a relatively large number of people. Sometimes these efforts to secure public funding are successful even though the decision is not efficient. This is an example of
A. pork-barrel politics. B. market failure. C. the special-interest effect. D. log-rolling.