Is inflation a macroeconomic or a microeconomic question? Why?
What will be an ideal response?
Inflation is a macroeconomic question because it deals with an economy-wide phenomenon. The price increase of a specific product, such as gasoline, would be a microeconomic matter. Since inflation deals with prices in the economy as a whole, it is a macroeconomic concern.
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Suppose the equilibrium price of cotton is $100 per ton. A price support set at ________ than $100 per ton ________
A) less; increases producer surplus B) less; increases consumer surplus C) more; increases consumer surplus D) more; decreases marginal cost E) more; creates a surplus that the government must buy
Refer to the information in Figure 16.5 below to answer the question(s) that follow.
?Figure 16.5Figure 16.5 shows the marginal benefits of emitting pollution for the only two chemical companies in an industry, Alpha Chemicals and Beta Chemicals. Before any tax on pollution emissions is imposed, each company views pollution as being free.Refer to Figure 16.5. The government decides to impose a tax on pollution emissions to cut total emissions in this industry in half, and based on this decision it has set the tax at $100 per ton of emissions. For Alpha, the tax is ________ than the marginal benefit it gets from polluting, and for Beta, the tax is ________
than the marginal benefit it gets from polluting. A. lower; higher B. higher; lower C. higher; higher D. lower; lower