Suppose a local union has a contract that calls for the nominal wage to increase by 5 percent plus 100 percent of any increase in the CPI. If the CPI increases by 4% and there is a 1% positive bias in the inflation rate, by how much would nominal wages unnecessarily increase?
a. 9 percent
b. 1 percent
c. 5 percent
d. 3 percent
e. 4 percent
B
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Money illusion is
A) when people think they are better off when their income increases even though prices have increased by the same amount. B) when people are motivated by self-interest. C) could not exist if the economy did not have competitive markets. D) a basic condition that all classical economists assume people have.
If a company pays a dividend of $2 to be received one year from now, dividends are expected to grow at a rate of 3 percent per year for the indefinite future, and the interest rate is 4 percent,
the price of the company's stock should be ________ per share. A) $3.40 B) $28.57 C) $200.00 D) $340.00
As output increases, average fixed cost
a. remains constant. b. decreases. c. rises and then falls. d. falls and then rises.
Our model of long-run economic growth suggests that
A) the U.S. growth slowdown since 1950 has been caused largely by low saving in the U.S. B) a higher rate of saving in the U.S. cannot do much to increase the U.S. growth rate over the next two decades. C) saving in the U.S. has exceeded the golden-rule level. D) all of the above E) none of the above