You and your college roommate eat three packages of Ramen noodles each week. After graduation last month, both of you were hired at several times your college income. Your roommate still enjoys Ramen noodles very much and buys even more, but you plan to buy fewer Ramen noodles in favor of foods you prefer more. When looking at income elasticity of demand for Ramen noodles, yours would
a. be negative and your roommate's would be positive.
b. be positive and your roommate's would be negative.
c. be zero and your roommate's would approach infinity.
d. approach infinity and your roommate's would be zero.
a
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Which of the following statements regarding the requirement that a firm be granted a license to operate in a particular market is false?
A) Advocates of licensing maintain that the practice is necessary to maintain quality of service. B) One of the economic effects of a license requirement is to constrain the available supply of the affected good or service. C) The requirement that they be licensed ensures that the affected firms will be able to earn a positive economic profit. D) Relaxing certain licensing requirements should increase the supply of the affected good or service.
Because financial markets clear, we know that leakages in the economy will equal injections and, therefore, there will be enough spending in the economy to purchase whatever amount of output level produced
a. True b. False