How does the labor-leisure trade-off determine the supply of labor?
What will be an ideal response?
Non-work activities are labeled "leisure." Time that is not spent on leisure will be spent on work. So, the price of leisure, in terms of its opportunity cost, is the lost wages from not working. Individuals would consume leisure up to the point where the marginal benefit from leisure equals the marginal cost, where the marginal cost is the wage rate.
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A real cost of tariffs and quotas that is difficult to measure is that they
A) encourage rent seeking. B) shift income from consumers to producers. C) limit the quantity of imports. D) reduce wages. E) cause deflation.
A sale of foreign assets by a central bank has the same effect on the monetary base as
A) a decrease in the discount rate. B) a decrease in the required reserve ratio. C) an open market sale of government bonds. D) an open market purchase of government bonds.
Other things equal, if foreign holdings of U.S. dollars decrease,
A) the balance on the U.S. current account will decrease. B) the balance on the U.S. financial account will decrease. C) the balance on the U.S. capital account will decrease. D) the U.S. balance of payments will decrease.
Which of the following is NOT a feature of monopolistic competition?
A) significant numbers of sellers in a highly competitive market B) differentiated products C) sales promotion and advertising D) inability of firms to enter or exit the market