A. will always increase the quantity of saving
B. will always decrease the quantity of saving
C. will increase the quantity of saving if the substitution effect outweighs the income effect
D. will increase the quantity of saving if the income effect outweighs the substitution effect
Related Mcqs:
- For the United States suppose the annual interest rate on government securities equals 8 percent while the annual inflation rate equals 4 percent, For Switzerland the annual interest rate on government securities equal 10 percent while the annual inflation rate equals 7 percent the above variables would cause investment funds to flow from ?
A. the United States to Switzerland causing the dollar to depreciate
B. the United States to Switzerland causing the dollar to appreciate
C. Switzerland to the United States causing the franc to depreciate
D. Switzerland to the United States causing the franc to appreciate - For the United States suppose the annual interest rate on government securities equals 12 percent while the annual inflation rate equals 8 percent For Japan the annual interest rate on government securities equals 10 percent while the annual inflation rate equals 5 percent the above variables would cause investment funds to flow from ?
A. The United States to Japan causing the dollar to depreciate
B. The United States to Japan causing the dollar to appreciate
C. The Japan to United States, causing the dollar to depreciate
D. The Japan to United States, causing the dollar to appreciate - When money demand is expressed in a graph with the interest rate on the vertical axis and the quantity of money on the horizontal axis an increase in the interest rate ?
A. None of these answers
B. decrease the quantity demanded of money
C. increase the quantity demanded of money
D. decreases the demand for money
E. increases the demand for money - If the nominal interest rate is 7 percent and the inflation rate is 3 percent, then the real interest rate is ?
A. 4 percent
B. 10 percent
C. -4 percent
D. 3 percent
E. 21 percent - The normal rate of profit for relatively risk-free firms will be _________ the interest rate on risk-free government bonds?
A. approximately one-half
B. smaller than
C. larger than
D. approximately equal to - Keynes liquidity preference theory of the interest rate suggests that the interest rate is determined by ?
A. aggregate supply and aggregate demand
B. the supply and demand for loanable funds
C. the supply and demand for money
D. the supply and demand for labor - If inflation is 8 percent and the real interest rate is 3 percent, then the nominal interest rate must be ?
A. 3/8 percent
B. 5 percent
C. 11 percent
D. 24 percent - A linear consumption function with a positive slope less than one means that if income increases consumption will ?
A. fall
B. not change
C. fluctuate
D. increase - If the Keynesian consumption function is C = 10 + 0.8 Td when disposable income is Rs1000 total consumption is what ?
A. 0.8
B. 800
C. 810
D. 0.81 - If the consumption of good by one person does not reduce the quantity available by others and nobody can be easily excluded from consumption, we are referring to a ?
A. Private good
B. merit good
C. public good
D. abundant good
