Answer:
Suppose the economy is experiencing an output gap of –3%
a. Monetary policy or fiscal policy can be used to raise actual output toward potential output when:
The government can increase its spending or reduce taxes, which will shift the IS curve to the right and increase GDP.
The Fed can reduce the interest rate, which will shift the MP curve down and increase GDP.
b. The policies identified in part a,
can be used together to raise actual output toward potential output.
Explanation:
Investment-Savings (IS) curve shows all the levels of interest rates and output (GDP) at which an economy's total desired investment (I) equals its total desired saving (S). This equilibrium can be achieved at a level of interest rate that maximizes output. The IS curve slopes downward, and to the right because at a lower interest rate, investment is higher, which produces more total output (GDP) for the economy.
Answer:
D) all of the above
Explanation:
Probably the single most labor reducing factor is new technology and how it is applied within a business. Automation is probably the single most important labor reducing factor in the US over the last 30 years. This is specially for factory workers, since automation is responsible for fewer industry jobs, not China.
New technologies increase marginal returns for labor and they also have changed organizations completely.
Computers, the internet, smartphones, Amazon, etc., have changed our world. Even the military has changed, a pilot can be located inside a US base and his airplane is flying a mission in the Middle East.
Answer:
80 % of materials ; 43 % of conversion costs
Explanation:
The FIFO method traces equivalent units for materials and conversion costs for the following categories :
- Opening Work in Process units
- Units started and completed
- Ending Work in Process units
So the units not completed from last months are the first to be completed during the month (hence To finish Opening Work in Process). During the year there are units started and completed (hence Units Started and Completed) and units started that never gets completed (hence Ending Work in Process units).
All these physical units need to be expressed to the percentage of work done on them - equivalent units.
The question is focusing on Number 3 - Ending Work in Process units. So 80 % of materials and 43 % of conversion costs were added during October for these units.
