Employing a fixed-weight index like the Consumer Price Index to adjust a person's salary in response to inflation will overcompensate this person because doing so will allow this person to
A) buy the same bundle of goods as he did before the inflation.
B) achieve a higher level of utility than he did before the inflation.
C) achieve the same level of utility as before the inflation.
D) buy more of all goods.
B
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An effort by the Fed to reduce aggregate demand may be thwarted because
A) investment could remain the same or increase because of optimistic expectations by businesses about the future of the economy. B) investment and interest rates are positively related. C) investment could fall because of pessimistic expectations. D) taxes may have been increased.
An increase in the wage rate causes
A) a rightward shift of the firm's labor demand curve. B) a decrease in the quantity of labor demanded. C) an increase in labor's marginal productivity. D) a leftward shift of the firm's labor demand curve.