Assume that fewer businesses offer new bonds to raise investment funds when government borrowing increases interest rates. This would be an example of:

a. Ricardian equivalence.
b. overestimating the tax multiplier.
c. crowding out.
d. increased consumption.
e. the balanced-budget multiplier.

c

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A) has ceded power to the administration. B) has authority to set and implement the inflation target. C) functions only in a technical sense. D) is replaced by a currency board.

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The slope of a typical production possibilities curve is:

A) 0. B) vertical. C) positive. D) negative.

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