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Exploring Macroeconomics 5th Edition Robert L. Sexton - Solutions
If almost all investors expected the profits of a company to jump sharply, would that make purchasing the stock today unusually profitable?
If you believed a company’s profitability was about to jump sharply, would you rather own bonds, preferred stock, or common stock in that company?
What is private saving? Public saving?
How are shortages and surpluses eliminated in the loanable funds market?
How is the real interest rate determined?
What is the supply of loanable funds curve?
What is the demand for loanable funds curve?
What are financial intermediaries?
How do expected business conditions affect the price of a stock?
What are retained earnings?
What are stocks?
What are bonds?
What are financial institutions?
When the Dutch “created” new land with their system of dikes, what did it do to their production possibilities curve? Why?
If long-run consequences were not important, would many students go to college or participate in internship programs without pay?
Even if “in the long run, we are all dead,” are you glad earlier generations of Americans worked and invested for economic growth?
Why does the production possibilities curve shift outward with economic growth?
What is human capital?
What factors contribute to economic growth?
How is Hong Kong a dramatic example of why abundant natural resources are not necessary for rapid economic growth?
Why could an increase in the price of oil increase real GDP growth in oil-exporting countries such as Saudi Arabia and Mexico, while decreasing growth in oil-importing countries such as the United States and Japan?
Why might countries with relatively scarce labor be leaders in labor-saving innovations? In what area would countries with relatively scarce land likely be innovative leaders?
Why is no single factor capable of completely explaining economic growth patterns?
Why is education so important for economic growth?
What impact will free trade have on economic growth?
Why are property rights so important for increasing economic growth?
Why is research and development so important for economic growth?
Why is the saving rate so important for increasing economic growth?
Why is the effective use of land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurial activities dependent on the protection of property rights and the rule of law?
If a couple was concerned about their retirement, why could that lead them to have more children if they lived in an agricultural society, but fewer children if they were in an urban society?
Why would you expect an inverse relationship between self-sufficiency and real GDP per capita?
How do higher saving rates affect long-run economic growth?
How does increasing the capital stock lead to economic growth?
Why does knowing what factors are correlated with economic growth not tell us what causes economic growth?
How do environmental concerns affect the desirability of economic growth?
Why are rising expectations detrimental to the desirability of economic growth?
When is population growth detrimental to per capita economic growth?
When is population growth beneficial to per capita economic growth?
Why is population control a particularly important issue in countries with very low levels of per capita income?
How did Malthus’s prediction on population growth follow from the law of diminishing returns?
How can economies of large-scale production allow per capita output to rise as population rises?
What happens to per capita real output if population grows faster than output? If population grows more slowly than output?
What is productivity?
What is the Rule of 70?
What is economic growth?
How do pollution and crime affect GDP? How do pollution- and crime-control expenditures impact GDP?
If we choose to decrease our hours worked because we value the additional leisure time more, will the resulting change in real GDP accurately reflect the change in our well-being? Why or why not?
How would the existence of a high level of nonmarket activities in one country impact real GDP comparisons between it and other countries?
Why do GDP measures omit nonmarket transactions?
What is the underground economy?
What are nonmarket transactions?
What are some of the deficiencies of GDP as a measure of economic welfare?
Why would the growth in real GDP overstate the growth of output per person in a country with a growing population?
If we overestimated inflation over time, would our calculations of real GDP growth be over- or underestimated?
What is the difference between GDP and national income?
How is personal income different from national income?
Can inventory investment or net exports ever be negative?
If Mary received a welfare check this year, would that transfer payment be included in this year’s GDP? Why or why not?
Why does the investment component of GDP include purchases of new capital goods but not purchases of company stock?
Why are durable goods purchases more unstable than nondurable goods purchases?
Why do you think economic forecasters focus so much on consumption purchases and their determinants?
What would happen to GDP if consumption purchases (C) and net exports ( X M) both rose, holding other things equal?
Why are sales of previously existing inventories of hula hoops not included in the current year’s GDP?
Why do GDP statistics include real estate agents’ commissions from selling existing homes and used car dealers’profits from selling used cars, but not the value of existing homes or used cars when they are sold?
Why aren’t all of the expenditures on used goods in an economy included in current GDP?
Why does GDP measure only final goods and services produced, rather than all goods and services produced?
How are net exports calculated?
What types of government purchases are included in the expenditure approach?
What are fixed investments?
What are durable and nondurable goods?
What are the four categories of purchases included in the expenditure approach?
How could inflation make people turn to exchange by barter?
Why will neither creditors nor debtors lose from inflation if it is correctly anticipated?
How does a variable interest rate loan “insure” the lender against unanticipated increases in inflation?
Say you owe money to Big River Bank. Will you gain or lose from an unanticipated decrease in inflation?
What will happen to the nominal interest rate if the real interest rate rises, ceteris paribus? What if inflation increases, ceteris paribus?
Why might the unemployment rate fall after output starts recovering during the expansion phase of the business cycle?
Why is the output of investment goods and durable consumer goods more sensitive to the business cycle than that of most goods?
Why would you expect unemployment to fall during an economy’s expansionary phase and to rise during a contractionary phase?
Why doesn’t the consumer price index accurately adjust for the cost-of-living effects of a tripling in the price of bananas relative to the prices of other fruits?
Why would the CPI take into account some goods imported from other countries, but not take into account some goods produced domestically, unlike the GDP deflator?
Why does the consumer price index tend to overstate inflation if the quality of goods and services is rising over time?
How does price level stability reduce the difficulties buyers and sellers have in coordinating their plans?
Suppose you had a 30-year fixed-interest mortgage on a home you purchased six years ago.In the meantime, the inflation rate has fallen considerably and probably will not reach that higher level again. Did you get a good interest rate on your loan?
What problems are inherent with a price-level index?
What is the purpose of a price-level index?
How did price level behave during the previous century?
Evaluate the following three statements regarding what happens during inflation: (1) People have less money to spend, (2) fewer goods are available, and (3) people must pay more money for goods purchased.
Does new technology increase unemployment?
Why would higher unemployment compensation in a country like France lead to higher rates of unemployment?
How do search costs lead to prolonged periods of unemployment?
What is an efficiency wage?
What are the three reasons for wages to fail to balance labor supply and labor demand?
Does unemployment insurance increase the unemployment rate?
How do changes in job search costs affect the unemployment rate?
How does an efficiency wage cause a higher rate of unemployment?
Can unions cause higher rates of unemployment?
How does a higher minimum wage lead to greater unemployment among the young and unskilled?
If a fall in demand for domestic cars causes auto workers to lose their jobs in Michigan, while plenty of jobs are available for lumberjacks in Montana, what kind of unemployment results?
If the widespread introduction of the automobile caused a productive buggy whip maker to lose his job, would he be structurally unemployed?
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