Chapter 6: Q9. (page 129)
Why do many firms strive to maintain stable prices?
Short Answer
Firms strive to maintain stable prices in the short run to attract customers.
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Chapter 6: Q9. (page 129)
Why do many firms strive to maintain stable prices?
Firms strive to maintain stable prices in the short run to attract customers.
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Are labor costs a major fraction of the typical firm鈥檚 overall production costs? How does wage stickiness cause price stickiness? Discuss why firms are averse to cutting wages and salaries during a business downturn.
An increase in _______ GDP guarantees that more goods and services are being produced by an economy.
nominal
real
Refer to Figure 6.1b and assume that the price is fixed at $37,000 and that Buzzer Auto needs 5 workers for every 1 automobile produced. If demand is DM and Buzzer wants to perfectly match its output and sales, how many cars will Buzzer produce, and how many workers will it hire? If, instead, demand unexpectedly falls from DM to DL, how many fewer cars will Buzzer sell? How many fewer workers will it need if it decides to match production to these lower sales?
Assume that a national restaurant chain called BBQ builds 10 new restaurants at a cost of \(1 million per restaurant. It outfits each restaurant with an additional \)200,000 of equipment and furnishings. To help partially defray the cost of this expansion, BBQ issues and sells 200,000 shares of stock at $30 per share. What is the amount of economic investment that has resulted from BBQ鈥檚 actions? How much purely financial investment took place?
If the demand for a firm鈥檚 output unexpectedly decreases, you would expect its inventory to
a. increase.
b. decrease.
c. remain the same.
d. increase or remain the same, depending on whether or not prices are sticky.
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