According to the permanent-income hypothesis,
A) the present value of lifetime consumption equals the present value of lifetime income.
B) the income earned in a lifetime will be evenly divided between consumption and saving.
C) household consumption depends on income that households expect to receive each year, and financial markets are used to smooth consumption in response to changes in transitory income.
D) households use financial markets to transfer funds from periods when income is high to periods when income is low.
C
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With regard to the Navigation Acts (1651 and later amendments), all of the following answers are true except
(a) No commodities originating from the Empire were to be shipped in any but British (including colonial) ships. (b) No commodities imported into the Empire were to be carried in any but British ships. (c) Only British subjects were allowed to be merchants in the colonies, and only British ships were to carry commodities from one English port to another. (d) There is no "except"; all of the above answers are true.
The major reason the market demand curve for labor slopes downward is because:
a. at lower wage rates, workers are less willing to supply labor to the market. b. at lower wage rates, workers are more willing to supply labor to the market. c. of the law of diminishing marginal product d. of the law of diminishing marginal resource cost.