If the price of pizza increases, the quantity of pizza demanded will fall because some consumers will switch to tacos, hamburgers, or submarine sanwiches. This is called the:

a. income effect
b. the alternative effect
c. the substitution effect
d. the normal good effect

c

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Refer to Figure 7-4. Suppose the U.S. government imposes a $0.25 per pound tariff on rice imports. Figure 7-4 shows the demand and supply curves for rice and the impact of this tariff. Use the figure to answer questions a-i

a. Following the imposition of the tariff, what is the price that domestic consumers must now pay and what is the quantity purchased? b. Calculate the value of consumer surplus with the tariff in place. c. What is the quantity supplied by domestic rice growers with the tariff in place? d. Calculate the value of producer surplus received by U.S. rice growers with the tariff in place. e. What is the quantity of rice imported with the tariff in place? f. What is the amount of tariff revenue collected by the government? g. The tariff has reduced consumer surplus. Calculate the loss in consumer surplus due to the tariff. h. What portion of the consumer surplus loss is redistributed to domestic producers? To the government? i. Calculate the deadweight loss due to the tariff.

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The capital account is

A) the reserve assets created by the International Monetary Fund for countries to use in settling international payment obligations. B) the price of one nation's currency in term of the currency of another country. C) a category of the balance of payments transactions that measures flows of real and financial assets. D) a category of the balance of payments transactions that measures the exchange of merchandise, the exchange of services, and unilateral transfers.

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