UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO-DENVER Principles of Microeconomics Econ 2022-OL1 Spring 2013

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1. Voluntary migration of skilled craftworkers from low-paying to high-paying nations is most likely to be opposed by: (Points : 2)

      [removed] business groups in the high-paying nations.
      [removed]
 craft workers who stay in the low-paying nations.
      [removed]
 industrial unions in the high-paying nations.
      [removed]
 craft unions in the high-paying nations.

 

2. In the market for superstars: (Points : 2)

      [removed] earnings reflect pricing power rather than marginal revenue product.
      [removed]
 small differences in talent get magnified into huge differences in pay.
      [removed]
 entry and exit rarely occur.
      [removed]
 product demand is typically highly elastic.

 

3. Labor market discrimination creates a: (Points : 2)

      [removed] redistribution of a larger domestic output.
      [removed]
 larger domestic output but no redistribution.
      [removed]
 smaller domestic output but no redistribution.
      [removed]
 redistribution of a smaller domestic output.

 

4. The incentive function of prices: (Points : 2)

      [removed] indicates that price increases bring forth more of a resource.
      [removed]
 is the idea that competitive markets will always clear.
      [removed]
 applies to all resources.
      [removed]
 only applies to land.

 

5.   
 
The
 individual firm in a purely competitive labor market faces: (Points : 2)

      [removed] a perfectly elastic labor supply curve and a downsloping labor demand curve.
      [removed]
 a perfectly elastic labor demand curve and an upsloping labor supply curve.
      [removed]
 labor demand and labor supply curves both of which are perfectly elastic.
      [removed]
 a downsloping labor demand curve and an upsloping labor supply curve.

 

6. A manufacturer using both capital and labor decides to use more labor and less capital because of an increase in the price of capital. This is likely the result of: (Points : 2)

      [removed] capital and labor being complementary inputs.
      [removed]
 capital and labor being substitute inputs.
      [removed]
 the output effect being greater than the substitution effect.
      [removed]
 diminishing returns being applicable to capital but not to labor.

 

7. The fact that people prefer present consumption to future consumption results in: (Points : 2)

      [removed] a downsloping demand for loanable funds curve.
      [removed]
 an upsloping supply of loanable funds curve.
      [removed]
 a downsloping supply of loanable funds curve.
      [removed]
 an upsloping demand for loanable funds curve.

 

8. Export supply curves are __________________; import demand curves are ___________________. (Points : 2)

      [removed] horizontal; vertical
      [removed]
 vertical; horizontal
      [removed]
 downsloping; upsloping
      [removed]
 upsloping; downsloping

 

9. In the real world, specialization is rarely complete because: (Points : 2)

      [removed] nations normally experience increasing opportunity costs in producing more of the product in which they are specializing.
      [removed]
 production possibilities curves are straight lines rather than curves bowed outward as viewed from the origin.
      [removed]
 one nation's imports are necessarily another nation's exports.
      [removed]
 international law prohibits monopolies.

 

10. In comparing a tariff and an import quota we find that: (Points : 2)

      [removed] the tariff and quota both generate the same amount of revenue for the United States Treasury.
      [removed]
 the tariff generates revenue for the United States Treasury but the quota does not.
      [removed]
 the quota generates revenue for the United States Treasury but the tariff does not.
      [removed]
 neither the tariff nor the quota generates revenue for the United States Treasury.

 

11. Countries engaged in international trade specialize in production based on: (Points : 2)

      [removed] relative levels of GDP.
      [removed]
 comparative advantage.
      [removed]
 relative exchange rates.
      [removed]
 relative inflation rates.

 

12. The idea of efficiency wages is that: (Points : 2)

      [removed] the wages of each type of labor must be proportionate to their marginal products.
      [removed]
 the wages of each type of labor must be equal to their marginal products.
      [removed]
 firms might get greater work effort by paying above-equilibrium wage rates.
      [removed]
 workers are more diligent when paid below-equilibrium wages.

 

13. The Earned Income Tax Credit: (Points : 2)

      [removed] increases the personal income tax liability of low-income working families.
      [removed]
 provides a cash payment to low-income working families if their tax credit exceeds their tax liability.
      [removed]
 is designed to make labor force employment less attractive.
      [removed]
 was eliminated as part of welfare reform in 1996.

 

14. Independent unions: (Points : 2)

      [removed] have greater combined membership than the AFL-CIO.
      [removed]
 are not affiliated with the AFL-CIO.
      [removed]
 include the United Autoworkers and Carpenters Union.
      [removed]
 have about the same combined membership as the AFL-CIO.

 

15. Capitalist income (corporate profits, interest, and rent) has: (Points : 2)

      [removed] declined sharply since 1900 because of the growing strength of labor unions.
      [removed]
 remained approximately constant in this century.
      [removed]
 increased significantly because of rising rents.
      [removed]
 fallen in this century because of the declining importance of corporations.

 

16. As it relates to international trade, dumping: (Points : 2)

      [removed] is a form of price discrimination illegal under U.S. antitrust laws.
      [removed]
 is the practice of selling goods in a foreign market at less than cost.
      [removed]
 constitutes a general case for permanent tariffs.
      [removed]
 is defined as selling more goods than allowed by an import quota.

 

17. The Lorenz curve portrays: (Points : 2)

      [removed] the functional distribution of income.
      [removed]
 the ratio of labor to capitalist income.
      [removed]
 the personal distribution of income.
      [removed]
 income equality.

 

18. A deficit on the current account: (Points : 2)

      [removed] normally causes a surplus on the capital and financial account.
      [removed]
 normally causes a deficit on the capital and financial account.
      [removed]
 has no relationship to the capital and financial account.
      [removed]
 means that a nation is making international transfers.

 

19. A nation's capital and financial account: (Points : 2)

      [removed] contains inpayment items, but not outpayment items.
      [removed]
 includes service exports and service imports.
      [removed]
 includes both inpayments and outpayments.
      [removed]
 includes net investment income and net transfers.

 

20. By reducing labor turnover, unions may increase productivity because a lower turnover rate: (Points : 2)

      [removed] results in a less-experienced work force.
      [removed]
 increases the incentive for firms to provide training to their workers.
      [removed]
 allows firms to employ a greater number of younger, more energetic workers.
      [removed]
 increases the incentive for firms to substitute labor for capital in the production process.

 

21. The lifetime distribution of income is more equal than the annual distribution. This statement is: (Points : 2)

      [removed] true, because the rich have gotten richer and the poor have gotten poorer.
      [removed]
 true, because there is considerable income mobility over time.
      [removed]
 false, because people tend to stay in the same income quintile over extended periods of time.
      [removed]
 false, because the rich have gotten richer and the poor have gotten poorer.

 

22. Supporters of offshoring claim that its benefits include: (Points : 2)

      [removed] increased demand for workers in complementary jobs.
      [removed]
 keeping U.S. firms profitable by lowering production costs.
      [removed]
 reduced prices for consumers.
      [removed]
 all of these.

 

23. The earnings of highly educated workers: (Points : 2)

      [removed] rise more slowly than those of less-educated workers.
      [removed]
 rise more rapidly than those of less-educated workers.
      [removed]
 rise at about the same rate as those of less-educated workers.
      [removed]
 stagnate earlier than do those of less-educated workers.

 

24. The marginal productivity theory of income distribution suggests that : (Points : 2)

      [removed] government should subsidize the most productive workers through a system of transfer payments.
      [removed]
 each individual should receive income based on his contribution to total output.
      [removed]
 resource owners should receive income based on the idea of "from each according to his ability, to each according to his wants."
      [removed]
 resource owners should receive income based upon their needs.

 

25. The demand for airline pilots results from the demand for air travel. This fact is an example of: (Points : 2)

      [removed] resource substitutability.
      [removed]
 rising marginal resource cost.
      [removed]
 elasticity of resource demand.
      [removed]
 the derived demand for labor.

 

26. The availability of health insurance tends to: (Points : 2)

      [removed] decrease the demand for health care and cause an underallocation of resources to the health care industry.
      [removed]
 increase the quantity of health care demanded and cause an underallocation of resources to the health care industry.
      [removed]
 increase the quantity of health care demanded and cause an overallocation of resources to the health care industry.
      [removed]
 decrease the quantity of health care demanded and cause an overallocation of resources to the health care industry.

 

27. The Gini ratio of income inequality ranges between: (Points : 2)

      [removed] 0 and 10,000.
      [removed]
 1 and 10.
      [removed]
 1 and +1.
      [removed]
 0 and 1.

 

28. Henry George advocated a single tax on: (Points : 2)

      [removed] real capital.
      [removed]
 entrepreneurial profits.
      [removed]
 land.
      [removed]
 labor income.

 

29. The crowding of women and minorities into a restricted number of occupations: (Points : 2)

      [removed] has no impact on the size of the domestic output or its distribution in the long run.
      [removed]
 will increase the size of the domestic output and make its distribution more equal.
      [removed]
 will decrease the size of the domestic output and make its distribution less equal.
      [removed]
 will increase the size of the domestic output, but make its distribution less equal.

 

30. Renewable resources: (Points : 2)

      [removed] can never be exhausted permanently.
      [removed]
 can be exhausted if harvest rates exceed replenishment rates for an extended period.
      [removed]
 can be exhausted if replenishment rates exceed harvest rates for an extended period.
      [removed]
 will tend to be over-harvested when they are private property.

 

31. The marginal cost-marginal benefit approach to migration suggests that: (Points : 2)

      [removed] the optimal amount of immigration to the United States is probably zero.
      [removed]
 everyone who wishes to come to the United States should be allowed to do so.
      [removed]
 a particular level of immigration may be too low or too high.
      [removed]
 efforts to reduce the inflow of illegal immigrants should be abandoned.

 

32. When economists say that health care services are overconsumed, they mean that: (Points : 2)

      [removed] rich people buy too much health care and poor people buy too little.
      [removed]
 some resources now used in the health care industry could produce alternative goods and services that society values more highly.
      [removed]
 health care is being purchased in amounts such that marginal benefits exceed marginal costs.
      [removed]
 the price of health care is below equilibrium so that quantity demanded exceeds quantity supplied.

 

33. In the United States, the rate of unionization is: (Points : 2)

      [removed] higher in mining than in government.
      [removed]
 lower in transportation than agriculture.
      [removed]
 higher in transportation than in retail trade.
      [removed]
 lower in government than in finance, insurance, and real estate.

 

34. Two of the implications of large U.S. trade deficits for the United States are: (Points : 2)

      [removed] decreased current consumption and decreased indebtedness to foreigners.
      [removed]
 reduced budget deficits and decreased indebtedness to foreigners.
      [removed]
 reduced current consumption and higher saving.
      [removed]
 increased current consumption and increased indebtedness to foreigners.

 

35. Statistical discrimination: (Points : 2)

      [removed] can persist in the long run if differences in average characteristics among groups continue.
      [removed]
 will tend to diminish in the long run, because nondiscriminating firms will drive out discriminating firms.
      [removed]
 requires that employers have discrimination coefficients greater than zero.
      [removed]
 is also known as occupational segregation.

 

36. Employers will hire more units of a resource if: (Points : 2)

      [removed] the price of the resource increases.
      [removed]
 the productivity of the resource increases.
      [removed]
 the price of the good being produced declines.
      [removed]
 the price of a complementary resource rises.

 

37. Collective bargaining agreements usually cover: (Points : 2)

      [removed] wages and hours.
      [removed]
 union status.
      [removed]
 seniority and job opportunities.
      [removed]
 all of these.

 

38. The basic argument for income inequality is that: (Points : 2)

      [removed] the very rich establish consumption patterns that are desirable for the rest of society to emulate.
      [removed]
 the rich buy luxury goods that soon become affordable to everyone else because of economies of scale.
      [removed]
 income inequality is essential to maintain incentives to produce.
      [removed]
 inequality undermines incentives and tends to reduce the size of the national income.

 

39. The total fertility rate: (Points : 2)

      [removed] measures the average number of children that a woman is expected to have during her lifetime.
      [removed]
 measures the average number of children that each couple is expected to have during their lifetime.
      [removed]
 equals the rate of population change over time.
      [removed]
 rises as income rises.

 

40. If a U.S. importer can purchase 10,000 pounds for $20,000, the rate of exchange is: (Points : 2)

      [removed] $1 = 2 pounds in the United States.
      [removed]
 $2 = 1 pound in the United States.
      [removed]
 $1 = 2 pounds in Great Britain.
      [removed]
 $.5 = 1 pound in Great Britain.

 

41. Given the availability of the Medicaid program, why are so many poor people uninsured? (Points : 2)

      [removed] Because only a fixed percentage of the population can participate in Medicaid at any time.
      [removed]
 Because many poor people earn enough that they do not qualify for Medicaid.
      [removed]
 Because nonincome requirements screen many poor people from the program.
      [removed]
 Because only native-born Americans are eligible for the program.

 

42. A market in which the money of one nation is exchanged for the money of another nation is a: (Points : 2)

      [removed] resource market.
      [removed]
 bond market.
      [removed]
 stock market.
      [removed]
 foreign exchange market.

 

43. The parity ratio: (Points : 2)

      [removed] compares worker productivity in the farm and nonfarm sectors.
      [removed]
 is the ratio of per capita farm income to per capita nonfarm income.
      [removed]
 is the ratio of prices received by farmers to prices paid by farmers.
      [removed]
 is the ratio of prices paid by farmers to prices received by farmers.

 

44. Other things equal, the monopsonistic employer will pay a: (Points : 2)

      [removed] lower wage rate and hire fewer workers than will a purely competitive employer.
      [removed]
 higher wage rate but hire fewer workers than will a purely competitive employer.
      [removed]
 lower wage rate but hire a larger number of workers than will a purely competitive employer.
      [removed]
 higher wage rate and hire a larger number of workers than will a purely competitive employer.

 

45. Defensive medicine refers to the idea that: (Points : 2)

      [removed] it is more cost-efficient to prevent illnesses than to cure them.
      [removed]
 physicians may require unnecessary testing as a means of protecting themselves against malpractice suits.
      [removed]
 doctors know much more about diagnosing and treating illnesses than do health care consumers.
      [removed]
 physicians do not advertise their services or fees.

 

46. A major difficulty with the argument that trade barriers are necessary because foreign workers are paid low wages is that: (Points : 2)

      [removed] labor costs and product prices are not related.
      [removed]
 there is no discernible relationship between wage rates and labor productivity.
      [removed]
 wage rates and labor productivity are directly related.
      [removed]
 wage rates and labor productivity are inversely related.

 

47. Featherbedding refers to: (Points : 2)

      [removed] a situation in which a union forces an employer to hire union workers in preference to nonunion workers.
      [removed]
 the requirement that unneeded workers be retained on a job.
      [removed]
 the refusal by one union to handle or transport goods produced by workers in another union.
      [removed]
 disputes among two or more unions as to which will perform certain jobs.

 

48. A major implication of asymmetric information is that: (Points : 2)

      [removed] health care suppliers may reduce the supply of health care.
      [removed]
 health care suppliers may increase the demand for health care.
      [removed]
 collusion between health care suppliers and purchasers may accelerate the rise in costs.
      [removed]
 resources may be underallocated to the health care industry.

 

49. An example of a social insurance program is ____________, whereas an example of public assistance program is _______. (Points : 2)

      [removed] Temporary Assistance for Needy Households; unemployment compensation
      [removed]
 Supplemental Security Income; unemployment compensation
      [removed]
 Social Security; food stamps
      [removed]
 Medicaid; Medicare

 

50. A lower equilibrium interest rate: (Points : 2)

      [removed] increases saving, reduces total spending, and increases total output.
      [removed]
 decreases saving, increases total spending, and decreases total output.
      [removed]
 increases investment, increases total spending, and increases total output.
      [removed]
 decreases investment, decreases total spending, and increases total output.

 

 

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