Answer:
C. Real GDP would be higher but the price level would be the same
Explanation:
Real gdp would get to be higher as long run aggregate supply goes up. Prices would go down because as long run aggregate supply goes up, aggregate demand does not experience the same proportional increase. As long run aggregate supply goes up, short run aggregate supply falls backwards.
Answer:
Part a.
If the Congress of country U to clothing insurance gives a preferential tax treatment, and the insurance company agrees to pay 80% of the clothing expenses and the tax subsidizes the insurance premium, it will result in increase in the consumption of clothes, because people will buy clothes as if they were free.
With this change in behavior there will be decline in economic efficiency because purchasing of formal and expensive clothing is not done on a regular basis, with clothing insurance people will buy less costly daily wear clothes at subsidized rates or for free and the price of clothes will decrease.
Part b.
People who can pay for the 20% remaining cost of clothes will buy insurance clothing and those who can pay the premium. Moreover, the rich will over consume than the poor because they are the ones who will give more importance to good clothing.
Part c.
If a person spends $2000 on clothing the clothing, insurance cost will be more than $2000 because higher the probability of claim higher will be the premium charged by the insurance company.
Part d.
This is not a good idea by the Congress of country U because good clothing is something every person would like to have. Like in health insurance, people should be insured for big life threatening health issues and for minor health issues people should pay out of their pockets, because people take health insurance benefits for minor health issues since health is more or less free in the COUNTRY U. The high premium costs and high prices are completely ignored.
Answer: A. Yes
Explanation: The US tax system has built-in stabilizers which help when the economy is down.
Built-in stabilizers are economy policies of government which are triggered automatically to stabilize the economy when it experiencing a downward movement or an unexpected growth in an excessive way without the explicit intervention of the government. An example of this is unemployment insurance.
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Answer:
$2,600
Explanation:
Calculation of the value of the company's inventory at the lower of cost or market.
Current FIFO inventory ×Net realizable value
Where,
Current FIFO inventory= 200 units
Net realizable value $13 per unit
Therefore,
200 units *$13 per unit = $2,600.
Lower cost of market can be said to mean that the inventory cost at either the purchase cost or replacement value .
Bases on the information given in the question, replacement cost is lower or lesser than the purchase cost which is why the inventory units are been cost at the replacement value of $13 each.
