In a perfectly competitive market, firms take:
a. the money wage as exogenous, the price level as endogenous.
b. the money wage and price level as exogenous, the quantity of labor as endogenous.
c. the money wage and price level as endogenous.
d. the quantity of labor as exogenous.
B
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On the modern Phillips curve, the initial impact of productivity improvements that lower the costs of production is shown by ________
A) an upward movement along the Phillips curve to a higher inflation rate B) an upward shift of the Phillips curve leading to higher inflation rates for any unemployment rate C) a downward shift of the Phillips curve leading to lower inflation rates for any unemployment rate D) a downward movement along the Phillips curve to higher unemployment rates E) none of the above
When a tariff is imposed, the supply curve for the imported good
A) shifts downward and to the right. B) shifts upward and to the left. C) does not change. D) becomes perfectly inelastic.
In general, the larger the price elasticity:
a. the smaller the responsiveness of price to changes in quantity. b. the smaller the responsiveness of quantity to changes in price. c. the larger the responsiveness of price to changes in quantity. d. the larger the responsiveness of quantity to changes in price.
Due to resource scarcity,
a. some economic activities have an opportunity cost b. all economic activities have an opportunity cost c. no economic activities have an opportunity cost d. economic activities have opportunity costs equal to their market prices e. economic activities have opportunity costs generally lower than their market prices