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Crowding Out How might federal deficits crowd out private domestic investment? How could this crowding out affect future living standards?
What is the bid price that maximizes the expected contribution of the contract?
What problems would you expect if the country were to employ this kind of budgetary philosophy?
Given the cyclical nature of government tax revenues and spending, how would the resulting budget deficit or surplus vary over the business cycle?
If you were the manager of the division, how would you justify the long-term nature of your contract with CGI Group?
Did the labor productivity ratio increase, decrease, or remain the same? If it changed, by what percent did it change?
Banks Are Financial Intermediaries In acting as financial intermediaries, what needs and desires of savers and borrowers must banks consider?
Question: How do you plot the following initial endowment on a Edgeworth box graph? Do the utility functions come into play in any way?
Calculate the marginal utility between each point and plot the corresponding graph. Why is the slope of the MU curve negative?
Output Gaps and Wage Flexibility What are some reasons why nominal wages may not fall during a recessionary gap?
Which of the following will cause total revenue earned by swimsuit producers to rise?
A. The average number of hours worked per employee per day? B. The wage paid per hour to each worker?
What is the slope of the budget line and what does it mean? Draw the budget line. Use the X-axis for bagels and the Y-axis for wine.
Question: Please explain utility theory----five axioms of choice under uncertainty (axioms of cardinal utility)
He/she can buy insurance at price q. How many units of the contract will the agent buy if the price is q=k?
Inflation Why is a relatively constant and predictable inflation rate less harmful to an economy than a rate that fluctuates unpredictably?
Explain as carefully as you can why borrowers would be willing to pay a higher interest rate if they expected the inflation rate to increase in the future.
Details: A consumer with the money-left-over utility function u(x) + m = 10 ln(x+1) +m is endowed with 100 units of x and $1000.
Global Economic Watch Go to the Global Economic Crisis Resource Center. Select Global Issues in Context. How will that investment trend affect economic growth?
How does this analysis connect with what you learned about measures of quality of life in the chapter on tracking the U.S. economy?
Consumption and Saving Suppose that consumption equals $500 billion when disposable income is $0. Draw a graph of the saving function using this information.
What is the relationship between the MPC and the MPS? If the MPC increases, what must happen to the MPS?
How do changes in disposable income affect government purchases and the government purchase function? How do changes in net taxes affect the consumption functio
Go to the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco's Website to read the article titled "What Moves the Interest Rate Term Structure?"
What kinds of changes in each factor could cause investment spending to increase at each level of real disposable income?