Taxes levied on a firm's earnings ________ the effective cost of funds

As opposed to GDP, GNP tries to measure

A) the happiness of a nation. B) the value of all intermediate goods produced in a nation. C) the economic performance of a nation's citizens regardless of where they happen to be producing. D) the economic performance of a country's economy regardless of the nationality of the producers.

Productivity is ________

A) determined by central bank policy B) the combined effect of monetary and fiscal policy C) the residual component of the production function D) driven by changes in the rate of growth of output