According to the classical model shown in Figure 4.1, an autonomous decline in investment shifts the investment schedule to the left. Furthermore, the equilibrium interest rate declines. Distance B describes an interest rate induced
a. decline in saving, which is an equal increase in consumption.
b. increase in investment.
c. decrease in investment.
d. decline in saving, which exceeds the increase in consumption.
B
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In 2012 a severe drought raised the price of corn. For a farmer in Canada who harvested a normal crop because the farm was not affected directly by the drought, the increase in the price of corn
A) increases the farmer's producer surplus. B) decreases the farmer's producer surplus. C) does not affect the producer surplus because this change is a movement along the farmer's supply curve and not a shift of the farmer's supply curve. D) increases producer surplus only if the farmer's supply is completely inelastic.
The price elasticity of demand for any particular perfectly competitive firm's output is
A) less than 1. B) 1. C) equal to zero. D) infinite.