Which of the following will cause demand to be relatively elastic?
a. There are few substitutes
b. The time interval is relatively long
c. The good is considered a necessity
d. The good involves a relatively small portion of the consumers' budget
e. The time interval is relatively short
B
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Everything else held constant, when stock prices become ________ volatile, the demand curve for bonds shifts to the ________ and the interest rate ________
A) more; right; rises B) more; right; falls C) less; left; falls D) less; left; does not change
Why is the production possibilities frontier concave to (bowed away from) the origin?
A) Consumers have declining marginal utility, so their relative satisfaction from consuming a good changes as they move from high levels to low levels of consumption. B) The shape of the curve is due to the marginal costs of producing the two goods. At high levels of output for a particular good, the marginal cost is very high, and the firm can use the same inputs to produce a relatively large quantity of the other good. C) For a production possibilities frontier, we no longer assume firms are price takers, and the input prices and output prices change as the firms alter their mix of outputs. D) none of the above