Suppose that sharply lower coffee prices lead to a decrease in the demand for tea. Tea price decreases, and the tea producers experience short-run economic losses. If the tea industry is a price-taker market, after sufficient time is allowed for the market to adjust fully to the decrease in the demand for tea, one would expect the tea industry's output to
a. increase and economic losses to persist.
b. decline and economic losses to persist.
c. decline and economic losses to disappear.
d. increase and economic losses to disappear
D
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Based on the figure below. Starting from long-run equilibrium at point C, a tax cut that increases aggregate demand from AD to AD1 will lead to a short-run equilibrium at point ________ and eventually to a long-run equilibrium at point ________, if left to self-correcting tendencies. 
A. D; C B. B; C C. B; A D. D; B
To find the cost of the CPI market basket in the base period prices we have to multiply the
A) quantities in the CPI market basket by the base period prices and then multiply by 100. B) quantities in the CPI market basket by the base period prices. C) current period quantities in the CPI market basket by the current period prices. D) quantities in the CPI market basket by the current period prices. E) current period quantities in the CPI market basket by the base period prices.
Refer to Figure 4-7. The figure above represents the market for iced tea. Assume that this is a competitive market. At an output of 30,000 units
A) the marginal cost of iced tea is greater than the marginal benefit; therefore, output is inefficiently high. B) producers should raise the price to $3 in order to sell the quantity demanded of 30,000. C) the marginal benefit of iced tea is greater than the marginal cost; therefore, output is inefficiently high. D) the marginal benefit of iced tea is greater than the marginal cost; therefore, output is inefficiently low.
When a temporary beneficial supply shock hits a small open economy, it causes the current account to ________ and investment to ________
A) fall; fall B) rise; remain unchanged C) fall; remain unchanged D) rise; fall