If a firm decides to produce a product that it once purchased from a firm upstream it has made a

The Fed initiates a contractionary monetary policy that is correctly anticipated by economic agents in the economy. The result is

A) decreased prices, but no change in real GDP. B) decreased prices and decreased real GDP in the short run, but only decreased prices in the long run. C) decreased real GDP in the short run and decreased prices in the long run. D) decreased real GDP and prices in both the short run and the long run.

Several studies in the 1990s concluded that the consumer price index overstated inflation by about

a. 3 percentage points per year, and that number of percentage points likely still applies now. b. 3 percentage points per year, but recent improvements to the CPI probably have reduced the overstatement of inflation to something less than 3 percentage points. c. 1 percentage point per year, and that number of percentage points likely still applies now. d. 1 percentage point per year, but recent improvements to the CPI probably have reduced the overstatement of inflation to something less than 1 percentage point