The situation where politicians make decisions that will raise their chances of reelection, even if those decisions are detrimental to the general public, is referred to as the:

A. Moral hazard problem
B. Principal-agent problem
C. Adverse selection problem
D. Common good problem

B. Principal-agent problem

Economics

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________ economic growth occurs when, after growth, exports and imports rise by the same proportion

A) Rising B) Neutral C) Biased D) Technological

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Changes in the money supply growth rate

A) are neutral in the short run. B) need not be neutral in the short run. C) are neutral in the long run. D) need not be neutral in the long run. E) affect the real output of the economy.

Economics