The government's budget deficit is financed by some combination of all of the following except
A) private saving.
B) transfer payments.
C) net exports.
D) reduced private investment.
B
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For a good whose production creates an external cost, the efficient quantity of output is
A) where the market demand curve and the market supply curve intersect. B) where the marginal social cost curve and marginal benefit curve intersect. C) as low as possible. D) zero. E) the amount of production so that the marginal social benefit exceeds the marginal social cost by as much as possible.
In the RBC model, an adverse supply shock causes the decrease in natural real GDP to be minimized when the labor supply curve is
A) downward sloping and extremely flat. B) upward-sloping and extremely flat. C) upward-sloping and extremely steep. D) vertical.
The monopolist's outcome happens at a:
A. lower price than the perfectly competitive one. B. higher price than the perfectly competitive one. C. higher quantity than the perfectly competitive one. D. equal quantity that is equal to a perfectly competitive one.
When economists describe the theory of consumer choice, they
a. portray people as simple and methodical with perfectly predictable patterns of behavior. b. assert that consumer's decisions are based on which goods and services give them the greatest utility within their limited incomes. c. point out that consumers rarely consider utility in their purchase decisions; they look at other factors like convenience, peer behavior, and price. d. assert that the retail price is the only variable consumers really consider in making their purchasing decisions. e. admit that consumer behavior is random and there is no credible economic theory to explain the phenomenon.