Tài liệu Ten Principles of Economics - Part 7 pptx

... sum of all the individual demands for a particular good or service. Catherine’s Demand Price of Ice-Cream Cone Price of Ice-Cream Cone Nicholas’s Demand 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Quantity of Ice-Cream ... relationship between the price of a good and the quantity demanded Price of Ice-Cream Cone 0 2.50 2.00 1.50 1.00 0.50 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Quantity of Ice-Cream Cones...

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... on labor-force participation. The labor-force participation rate measures the percentage of the total adult pop- ulation of the United States that is in the labor force: Labor-force participation ... was Labor-force participation rate ϭ (1 37. 7/205.2) ϫ 100 ϭ 67. 1 percent. Hence, in 1998, two-thirds of the U.S. adult population were participating in the labor market, and 4.5 percent...

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... table. A LL W OMEN W OMEN W OMEN W OMEN W OMEN 2 5-5 4 2 5-3 4 3 5-4 4 4 5-5 4 1 970 43% 50% 45% 51% 54% 1990 58 74 74 77 71 Why do you think that younger women experienced a bigger increase in labor-force participation than older ... has a fifty-fifty chance of hiring the compe- tent one. By contrast, if the firm offers any lower wage, it is sure to hire the incom- petent work...

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... interest 2 27 835 13 Medicare 205 75 4 12 Health 143 526 8 Other 239 879 14 Total $1 ,72 7 $6,350 100% S OURCE : Economic Report of the President, 1999, table B-80. budget surplus an excess of government ... with income of $50,000 pays 15 percent of the first $25 ,75 0 of income, and then 28 percent of the rest. O N T AXABLE I NCOME . . . T HE T AX R ATE I S . . . Up to $25 ,75...

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... have. FYI The Euro 672 PART ELEVEN THE MACROECONOMICS OF OPEN ECONOMIES would drive up the U.S. price of coffee and drive down the Japanese price. Con- versely, if a dollar could buy more coffee in Japan ... as their economies be- came more inte- grated, it would be better to avoid this incon- venience. There are, however, costs of choosing a common cur- rency. If the na- tions of...

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... policy can potentially also influence the quantity of goods and ser- vices supplied. For instance, consider the effects of tax changes on aggregate supply. One of the Ten Principles of Economics ... investment. This crowding-out effect partially offsets the impact of gov- ernment purchases on aggregate demand, as illustrated in panel (b) of Figure 3 2-5 . The initial impac...

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... have two external effects: 382 PART FIVE FIRM BEHAVIOR AND THE ORGANIZATION OF INDUSTRY and average-total-cost curves. Panel (a) of Figure 1 7- 3 shows that the quantity of output at this point is ... on the downward-sloping portion of their average-total-cost curves. In this way, monopolistic competition contrasts starkly with perfect competition. As panel (b) of Figure 1 7- 3...

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