The Merchant Company issued 10-year bonds on January 1. The 15% bonds have a face value of $100,000 and pay interest every Janua
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Answer:
a. The government needs to increase spending by $0.45 billion and decrease taxes by $0.5 billion.
b. The real GDP will fall short of potential GDP by $3.6 billion.
c. The real GDP will fall short of potential GDP by $4 billion.
d. If government overestimates MPC change in spending or taxes will be too small.
Explanation:
The GDP gap is $4.5 billion.
a. The marginal propensity to consume is 0.90.
Government spending multiplier
=
=
= 10
The government needs to increase spending by
=
=
= $0.45 billion
Tax multiplier
=
=
= -9
The government needs to decrease taxes
=
=
= $0.5 billion
b. The marginal propensity to consume is 0.50.
Government spending multiplier
=
=
= 2
If the government increases spending by $0.45 billion,
The real GDP will increase by
=
=
= $0.9 billion
The real GDP will fall short of potential GDP by
= $4.5 billion - $0.9 billion
= $3.6 billion
c. Tax multiplier
=
=
= -1
If the government decreases taxes by $0.5 billion
The real GDP will increase by
=
= $0.5 billion
The real GDP will fall short of potential GDP by
= $4.5 billion - $0.5 billion
= $4 billion
d. If the government overestimates the value of the MPC, then its change in spending or taxes will be too small and real GDP will fall short of potential GDP.
Answer: Option (B) is correct.
Explanation:
Correct option: Decreasing marginal product.
Marginal product is the change in the level of output, when there will be an extra input employed in the production of a certain commodity.
So, Marginal Product =
Where,
Q = Output
I = Input
Marginal product of 1st bag = 500
Marginal product of 2nd bag = = 300
Marginal product of 3rd bag = = 100
∴ From the above calculations, we can seen that as we employed one more bag of seeds as a result marginal product goes on diminishing.
Hence, Joan's production function exhibits decreasing marginal product.