Increases in the real wage will lead workers to supply more hours of labor

Assume that the government increases spending and finances the expenditures by borrowing in the domestic capital markets. If the nation has low mobility international capital markets and a flexible exchange rate system, what happens to the GDP Price Index and reserve-related (central bank) transactions in the context of the Three-Sector-Model?

a. The GDP Price Index falls, and reserve-related (central bank) transactions become more negative (or less positive). b. The GDP Price Index falls, and reserve-related (central bank) transactions remain the same. c. The GDP Price Index and reserve-related (central bank) transactions remain the same. d. The GDP Price Index rises, and reserve-related (central bank) transactions remains the same. e. There is not enough information to determine what happens to these two macroeconomic variables.

The economic surplus of an action is:

A. the difference between the explicit and implicit costs of taking an action. B. the money a person has left over after taking an action. C. the difference between the benefit and the cost of taking an action. D. the benefit gained by taking an action.