If a currency rapidly depreciates, what are the possible negative results to the economy of using contractionary monetary policy to address the depreciation?
What will be an ideal response?
National income falls and perhaps the economy goes into a recession.
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Holding all other factors constant and using the midpoint method, if a candy manufacturer increases production by 20 percent when the market price of candy increases from $0.50 to $0.60, then supply is
a. inelastic, since the price elasticity of supply is equal to .91. b. inelastic, since the price elasticity of supply is equal to 1.1. c. elastic, since the price elasticity of supply is equal to 0.91. d. elastic, since the price elasticity of supply is equal to 1.1.
The dollar value of a retail (or front-end) disposal charge needed to restore efficiency to this market would be
Use thefollowing information for any or all of Questions 16 through 18. Suppose the marginal benefits and marginal costs of tire production in the U.S. are modeled as follows, where Q is in millions: MSB = 12 – 0.4Q MPB = 12 – 0.3Q MSC = MPC = 2 + 0.1Q a. $4 c. $6 b. $2 d. $20