Under what situations will a colluding firm cheat?
What will be an ideal response?
A colluding firm will cheat if it can cheat without being detected or punished. A colluding firm can also cheat if it is in danger of bankruptcy. In addition, if the government outlaws a product, then firms selling that product will know that on the last day of legal sales, no individual firm has an incentive to continue playing a cooperative strategy. Therefore, these firms are likely to cheat.
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Which of the following correctly describes a way in which deficit spending can impose a burden on future generations?
I. Failure to allocate deficit spending to uses that boost future real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) will require taxing future generations at a higher rate to repay the resulting higher public debt. II. Government deficits that lead to higher employment and real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the future will generate increased income taxes for future governments, which will respond by spending the higher tax revenues, creating higher future government budget deficits. III. Other things being equal, deficit spending fuels increased consumption of goods and services by the current generation that crowds out capital investment, thereby leaving future generations with a smaller stock of capital than otherwise would have existed. A) I only B) II only C) I and III only D) II and III only
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A) Whizbo, Yowzo, Zowiebo B) Whizbo, Zowiebo, Yowzo C) Zowiebo, Yowzo, Whizbo D) Zowiebo, Whizbo, Yowzo E) Zowiebo, with Whizbo and Yowzo tied for second