What real-world complications keep purchasing power parity from being a complete explanation of exchange rates?
What will be an ideal response?
First, not all goods are traded internationally. Second, products are differentiated, so they would not be expected to have the same price. Third, governments impose barriers to trade, preventing prices of goods from equalizing between nations.
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If an economic agent's returns to entrepreneurship is greater than his opportunity cost of entrepreneurship:
A) he will always make losses if he chooses to be an entrepreneur. B) he will most likely not choose to be an entrepreneur. C) he will always make profits if he chooses to be an entrepreneur. D) he will most likely choose to be an entrepreneur.
Assume that when the price of good Z is increased from $5 to $6, the total revenue earned increases from $600 to $690. Based on this information, we can conclude that over this range, demand for Z is:
A) elastic. B) unit elastic. C) inelastic. D) perfectly inelastic.
The laissez-faire approach popular before the Great Depression influenced the U.S. government to see business downturns as: a. natural phases in an otherwise healthy system and to therefore take short-term deficit spending measures to help recovery. b. natural phases in an otherwise healthy system and to therefore wait for recovery to occur naturally
c. serious maladies in an otherwise healthy system and to therefore work to redesign the system to avoid such failure in the future. d. failures of the type of system Adam Smith envisaged and to therefore work to move toward an open economy with free trade. e. failures of the system to achieve the form that Adam Smith envisaged and to therefore work to decrease government interference at the micro level.
The part of the Federal Reserve System (the Fed) that sets reserve requirements is
A. the Federal Open Market Committee. B. the Federal Advisory Committee. C. the Federal Reserve district banks. D. the Board of Governors.