If a central bank does not want to see its currency ________ in value, it may pursue contractionary monetary policy to raise the domestic interest rate, thereby ________ its currency

If long-run average total cost decreases as the quantity of output increases, the firm is experiencing

a. economies of scale. b. diseconomies of scale. c. coordination problems arising from the large size of the firm. d. fixed costs greatly exceeding variable costs.

The lowest the poverty rate has been during the last 50 years was in

A. 1960. B. 1967. C. 1973. D. 1979.