Investment Goods A D Consumption Goods Which of the following statements concerning the above production possibilities model is correct? O A. if unemployment exists in the economy and can be decreased, the PPF would shift out. O B. a technological advance in the production of consumption goods could allow this economy to produce more investment goods as well. O C. point C lies outside the PPF because it is not a desired combination of consumption and investment goods. O D. point B is a more allocatively efficient choice than point D because investment goods will increase. nation's PPF in the future while consumption

Investment Goods A D Consumption Goods Which of the following statements concerning the above production possibilities model is correct? O A. if unemployment exists in the economy and can be decreased, the PPF would shift out. O B. a technological advance in the production of consumption goods could allow this economy to produce more investment goods as well. O C. point C lies outside the PPF because it is not a desired combination of consumption and investment goods. O D. point B is a more allocatively efficient choice than point D because investment goods will increase. nation's PPF in the future while consumption

ECON MICRO

5th Edition

ISBN:9781337000536

Author:William A. McEachern

Publisher:William A. McEachern

Chapter2: Economic Tools And Economic Systems

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 3.8P

See similar textbooks

Similar questions

1a. What is a Production Possibilities Frontier (PPF)? Consider an economy with only two goods: guns and butter. Show the tradeoff between the production of guns and the production of butter by drawing a (bowed outward) PPF (use gun production on the horizontal axis and butter production on the vertical axis). b. In what ways does the PPF reflect: i. scarcity and choice; and ii. increasing opportunity cost? c. How would the PPF be affected by a technological improvement in the production of guns? Solve all this question......you will not solve all questions then I will give you down?? upvote..
Suppose an economy produces two goods: food and machines. this economy always operates on its productions possibilities frontier. last year it produced 50 units of food and 30 machines. This year and experience a Technological advance and it’s machine making industry. As a result of this year the society wants to produce 55 units of food and 30 machines which of the following statements is true? A) The technological advance reduced the amount of resources needed to produce 30 machines. These resources could be used to produce more food. B) because the technological advance occurred in the machine making industry increases and output can only occur in the machine industry. C) in order to increase food production in these circumstances without reducing machine production the economy must reduce inefficiencies. I need help with understanding this.
a) Why is the PPF curve bowed outward. Is it due to increasing opportunity cost or decreasing opportunity cost or constant opportunity cost b) What happens to the PPF curve during a recession? Will it shift inward or outward or remains constant c) Suppose a technology is banned due to its adverse environmental impacts. Would the production possibilty curve shift inward or outward or remain constant due to this d) How will a policy encouraging more immigration would shift the production possibility forntier. It will shift inward or outward or remain constant
Suppose the economy initially produces 15,000 gallons of drinking water and 450,000 tons of steel, which is represented by point A. The opportunity cost of producing an additional 5,000 gallons of drinking water (that is, moving production to point B) is (72,000, 135,000, 90,000, 54,000, 108,000) tons of steelSuppose, instead, that the economy currently produces 378,000 tons of steel and 20,000 gallons of drinking water, which is represented by point B. Now the opportunity cost of producing an additional 5,000 gallons of drinking water (that is, moving to point C) is (72,000, 135,000, 90,000, 54,000, 108,000) ons of steel.Comparing your answers in the two previous paragraphs, you can see that the opportunity cost of 5,000 additional gallons of drinking water at point B is (Less, Equal, Or Greater Than) the opportunity cost of 5,000 additional gallons of drinking water at point A. This reflects the (Notion that Countries can gain from trade, Law of Increasing Opportunity Costs, Fact…
ASAP!! ANSWER PLEASE Suppose there are only two commodities that can produced in an economy, computers and cycles. If the producer decides to produce one more cycle then why does it cost more to produce the second cycle than to produce the first one, assuming that the cycles are identical? Elaborate your answer using the concept of Production Possibility curve
A production possibilities curve is drawn basedon which of the following assumptions?a. Resources are fixed and fully employed, andtechnology advances at the rate of growth ofthe economy overall.b. Resources such as nonrenewable resourceswill decline, but labor remains fullyemployed and technology is unchanged.c. Resources can vary; most resourcesexperience times of unemployment; andtechnology advances, particularly duringwartime.d. Resources such as labor and capital will growand are fully employed, and technology isunchanged.e. None of the answers correct.
The following is a production possibilities table for war goods and civilian goods: Production alternatives A B C D E Automobiles 0 2 4 6 8 (in millions) Guided missiles 30 27 21 12 0 (in thousands) •Show these production possibilities data graphically. •What does points on the curve indicate? •If the economy is currently at point C, what is the cost of 1 million more automobiles? Of more guided missiles? •Suppose improvement occurs in the technology of producing guided missiles but not in the production of automobiles. Draw the new production possibilities curve
part D E F needed Consider Points A, B, C, D, E, F and G. a. Which points are inefficient? Explain why. b. Which points are efficient? Explain why. c. Which point(s) are infeasible. Explain why. d. In moving from Point A to Point B, and Point B to Point C, in which case is the opportunity cost of producing bread higher? Explain why. e. How would the PPF look different if there were constant opportunity costs of bread for wine (explain in words only)? f. Describe (in words only) how the invention of a new, more productive strain of wheat would be modeled in the above diagram.
3. Suppose that there are 10 million workers in Canada and that each of these workers can produce either 2 cars or 30 bushels of wheat in a year. a) What is the opportunity cost of producing a car in Canada? What is the opportunity cost of producing a bushel of wheat in Canada? Explain the relationship between the opportunity costs of the two goods. b) Draw Canada’s production possibilities frontier. If Canada chooses to consume 10 million cars, how much wheat can it consume without trade? Label this point on the production possibilities frontier. c) Now suppose that the United States offers to buy 10 million cars from Canada in exchange for 20 bushels of wheat per car. If Canada continues to consume 10 million cars, how much wheat does this deal allow Canada to consume? Label this point on your diagram. Should Canada accept the deal?
Assume an economy producing only two goods (shoes and computers) with a fixed amount of productive resources and technology and employing all its productive resources to the maximum. The maximum output combinations of both goods are given in the table below: Combination Shoes Computers Shoes Computers A 0 1000 B 100 900 C 200 750 D 300 550 E 400 300 F 500 0 Draw the PPF using your knowledge about the shape and slope of PPC. I Does the PPF have the expected shape? iii. Explain why your PPF in (a) above depicts that shape. How many computers could society produce if it was willing to do without shoes? Why are points outside the frontier unattainable? Identify three ways by which the economy can attain the level of production outside the PPF. vii. What happens…
Consider production possibilities of goods and services in China, Since 1980, the population of China has grown by over 40%, from just under 1.0 billion to more than 1.4 billion people. In addition, there has been massive investment in both human and physical capital. Given these changes, we can expect that China's production possibilities frontier has shifted and become curved (bowed outward). Answers A - D A.outward; more B.inward, more C.inward; less D.outward, less
cost data:Assembly: Total cost of production = 400Earnings of High-Skilled Labor = 100Earnings of Low-Skilled Labor = 200Earnings of Capital = 100R&D: Total cost of production = 400Earnings of High-Skilled Labor = 175Earnings of Low-Skilled Labor = 125Earnings of Capital = 100A) In which factor is assembly intensive? In which factor is R&D intensive? Suppose that due to the opening of trade, the price of assembly falls by −20%, the price of R&Dremains unchanged, 0%, and capital’s share earnings remains constant. What has happened to the relative wage of high-skilled/low-skilled labor? Does this match the predictions of the offshoring model?