Chapter 4: Q. 19 (page 105)
Would usury laws help or hinder the resolution of a shortage in financial markets?
Short Answer
Yes, because monopoly restrictions make lending less profitable, they would make resolving a shortfall more difficult.
Chapter 4: Q. 19 (page 105)
Would usury laws help or hinder the resolution of a shortage in financial markets?
Yes, because monopoly restrictions make lending less profitable, they would make resolving a shortfall more difficult.
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Get started for freeImagine that to preserve the traditional way of life in small fishing villages, a government decides to impose a price floor that will guarantee all fishermen a certain price for their catch.
a. Using the demand and supply framework,
predict the effects on the price, quantity
demanded, and quantity supplied.
b. With the enactment of this price floor for fish, what are some of the likely unintended
consequences in the market?
c. Suggest some policies other than the price floor to make it possible for small fishing villages to continue.
Identify each of the following as involving either demand or supply. Draw a circular flow diagram and label the flows A through F. (Some choices can be on both sides of the goods market.)
a. Households in the labor market
b. Firms in the goods market
c. Firms in the financial market
d. Households in the goods market
e. Firms in the labor market
f. Households in the financial market
In the labor market, what causes a movement along the supply curve? What causes a shift in the supply curve?
Select the correct answer. A price floor will usually shift
a. demand
b. supply
c. both
d. neither
Illustrate your answer with a diagram.
In the financial market, what causes a movement along the demand curve? What causes a shift in the demand curve?
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