Question

Identify how planned investment will change in each scenario. Airwings, a commercial airline manufacturer, becomes optimistic about economic conditions after seeing reports of strong growth in consumer spending. Due to Airwings, planned investment The Federal Reserve announces an end to accommodative monetary policy, and is now implementing policy tools that will increase the real interest rate. Due to the Fed, planned investment In an effort to reduce constant budget deficits, Congress announces plans to increase the corporate income tax rate. Due to the Congress, planned investment A major recession has reduced consumption spending, which has hurt profit levels for Aston-Benz, a high-end car manufacturer. Due to the recession, planned investment

Answer 1

Answer:

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Explanation:

1) Increase

As business is optimistic about its future, such business will start capacity expansion to cater for consumer demand.

2) Decrease

Higher real interest rate simply means borrowing cost is higher for the firms and so that they will reduce the investment in respose to that.

3) Decrease

A lower tax means higher profits and firms can pass these benefits to consumers with lower prices, to employees with higher wages and to the government with tax on profit. However, if the rate of tax itself has been increased then in that case corporates will see higher tax as a dampener in sentiments and they might curtail investment plans.

4) Decrease

A recession means there will be lesser economic activity overall and demand will be lower so as the consumption. In such case, planned investment will be reduced.