If the expected path of 1-year interest rates over the next five years is 1 percent, 2 percent, 3 percent, 4 percent, and 5 percent, the expectations theory predicts that the bond with the highest interest rate today is the one with a maturity of
A) two years.
B) three years.
C) four years.
D) five years.
D
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Recall the Application. If country A has a lower overall income tax rate than country B, and labor can freely and easily move between the two countries, real wages in country B will tend to ________ and employment in country B will tend to ________
A) decrease; increase B) increase; decrease C) increase; increase D) decrease; decrease
When the price of a normal good decreases, the ________ can be divided between the ________, which keeps the best affordable point on the same indifference curve and the ________, which moves the best affordable point farther away from the origin
A) substitution effect; price effect; income effect B) price effect; income effect; substitution effect C) income effect; substitution effect; price effect D) price effect; substitution effect; income effect