A sharp increase in taxes affects many middle-class families.
A sports-apparel company cuts jobs as a result of slow sales.
A fast-food chain goes out of business and shuts down all of its restaurants.
Explanation:
The circular income or circulated flow is a model for the economy where the big transactions between the market participants are represented as cash flows, goods and services, etc. The cash and goods flows transferred in a closed circuit complement the interest but are going in the reverse direction.
Retirements are factors in an economy that escapes from distributed labor flows and reduces national income sizes.
Withdrawals include: savings, taxes and imports.
Answer:
1. False 2. True
Explanation:
1. The candidate for political office announcing that the policy to reduce immigration from abroad which, he says, economics clearly demonstrates will lead to higher output in the long run; is false.
What increases output are the factors of production of which labor is a major component. When there are more people willing and able to work in an economy, <u>they help companies to produce more output but that is not the case when immigration is reduced, obviously that would reduce productivity and output.</u>
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2. However his second claim is right, that making trade more open between the US and other countries will increase output on the long run.
Trade barriers like tariffs and duties impede the level of trade between countries which could either reduce the amount of money countries make after netting off custom duties or the price of imported goods are increased by the effect of tariffs. Increased price means reduced demand
<u>Hence if tariffs are replaced with subsidies in open trade, prices of U.S imported goods will fall and demand will increase.</u>
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Answer:
1. The elasticity of demand for movie tickets must be INELASTIC.
2. Demand curves become LESS elastic in the long run. This means that the ticket price increase will likely be MORE profitable in the long run.
Explanation:
1. As demand is inelastic, the percentage of price increase will be greater than the decrease in the quantity of tickets demanded, and consequently profit will increase.
2. In the long term, demand becomes inelastic. Consequently, in the long term the percentage of the price increase will continue to be greater than the percentage of decrease in the quantity of tickets demanded.
Answer:
B. A large number of very large and small banks
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Answer: PRODUCT DIFFERENTIATION
Explanation:
This is a marketing strategy that some companies employ whereby they aim to distinguish their products from that of competitors by giving it certain features that expound on its strength in the market.
This strategy can create a competitive advantage for goods that will ensure that the company maintains a dominant place in the market.
