If one defines incremental cost as the change in total cost resulting from a decision, and incremental revenue as the change in total revenue resulting from a decision, any business decision is profitable if:
a. it increases revenue more than costs or reduces costs more than revenue
b. it decreases some costs more than it increases others (assuming revenues remain constant)
c. it increases some revenues more than it decreases others (assuming costs remain constant)
d. all of the above
e. b and c only
d
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The deposit multiplier is the inverse of
A) legal reserves. B) excess reserves. C) checkable deposits. D) the required reserve ratio.
Based on the information in the table, what quantity of reserves would the Federal Reserve have had to inject into the economy in 1932 to prevent the money supply from falling, given that the public increased the amount of currency it held and that banks increased the reserve-deposit ratio? Currency held by public(in billions)Reserve-deposit ratioBank reserves (in billions)Money supply (in billions)December 1931$4.590.095$3.11$37.3December 1932$4.820.109$3.18$34.0
A. $0.30 billion B. $0.66 billion C. $3.54 billion D. $0.89 billion