To maximize total utility, a consumer should buy goods with ______.

The establishment of the Euro as a unit of account in 1999 meant that from then on the currencies of the participating countries traded at a fixed rate, until the Euro completely replaced these currencies in the year 2002

(a) How would the inflation rates of these countries have to had been in these transition years for PPP to hold? (b) If the inflation of Italy was twice as high as that of Germany a year between 1999 and 2002, what can we say then about the Italian lira against the German mark? (c) What does the concept of PPP thus tells us about what needs to happen for such this monetary agreement to work for a long period of time?

The political party that is in power determines the position and shape of the production possibilities frontier that constrains the choices of the economy

a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false