What is the subject of Corporate Tax? Who has to pay corporate tax? Please provide detailed information.
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Explain the types of tax liability in the Turkish Tax System by giving examples.
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If government revenues are very elastic with respect to GDP or personal income, what would tend to happen to government revenue over the course of a business cycle? How would they track growth of income over the long term? How does that make budgeting difficult for state governments that are required to balance their budgets?
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After plotting the map of Turkey's tax system, make a short description for each type of tax.
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Describe the ways to determine how big a government should be
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Explain the concepts given below by exemplifying them.
a) Public Choice
b) Economic Efficiency
c) Pareto Optimality
d) Market Failure
e) Government Failure
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Explain the tools that governments can use to encourage or deter
the production of certain goods and services (provide examples if
you think necessary).
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Economic growth will:
Group of answer choices
Shift PPF left
Shift PPF right
Cause movement along PPF
Decrease production
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Question 171 pts
What annual growth rate is needed for a country to double its output in 14 years?
Group of answer choices
7
2
5
10
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Question 181 pts
Which of the following is NOT a phase of the business cycle?
Group of answer choices
Recession
Base
Expansion
Peak
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Question 191 pts
Two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth as measured by a country's GDP is a:
Group of answer choices
Business Cycle
Great Recession
Recession
Depression
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Question 201 pts
Unemployment rate is defined as ________
Group of answer choices
Unemployed divided by the total population
Unemployed divided by the labor force
Unemployed divided by the labor participation
Labor force divided by the total population
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Question 211 pts
The type of unemployment caused by workers voluntarily changing jobs and by temporary layoffs is:
Group of answer choices
Frictional Unemployment
Structural Unemployment
Structural Unemployment
Burdensome Unemployment
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Question 221 pts
Unemployment of workers whose skills are not demanded by employers, who lack sufficient skill to obtain employment, or who cannot easily move to locations where jobs are available is:
Group of answer choices
Structural Unemployment
Frictional Unemployment
Cyclical Unemployment
Burdensome Unemployment
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Question 231 pts
Natural rate of unemployment is define as ________
Group of answer choices
Cyclical unemployment
Frictional unemployment plus structural unemployment
Seasonal unemployment plus cyclical unemployment
Zero unemployment
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Question 241 pts
The generalization that any 1% point rise in the unemployment rate above the natural rate of unemployment is associated with a rise in the negative GDP gap by 2% of potential GDP is known as:
Group of answer choices
Keynes’ law
GDP Gap
Economic growth
Okun’s law
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Question 251 pts
The index that measures the prices of a fixed market basket of 300 goods and services is:
Group of answer choices
Purchase Price Index
Consumer Price Index
Consumer Sales Index
Consumer Base Index
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Question 261 pts
If the CPI was 314 in 2015 and 335 in 2016, what is the rate of inflation?
Group of answer choices
4.28%
3.14%
5.53%
6.69%
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Question 271 pts
Cost-push inflation occurs when there is ___________.
Group of answer choices
Excess inventory
Increases in the price level resulting from an increase in resource costs and hence in per-unit production costs; inflation caused by reduction in aggregate supply
Increases in the price level resulting from increases in aggregate demand
A trade deficit
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Question 281 pts
Demand-pull inflation occurs when there is ___________.
Group of answer choices
Increases in the price level resulting from an increase in resource costs and hence in per-unit production costs; inflation caused by reduction in aggregate supply
Excess inventory
Excess inventory
Increases in the price level resulting from increases in aggregate demand
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Question 291 pts
_________ inflation reduces real output.
Group of answer choices
Cost-push
Demand-pull
Core
Core
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Question 301 pts
Core inflation ___________.
Group of answer choices
excludes certain items that face volatile price movements, such as energy and food products.
Is the natural rate of inflation
Is measured every two years.
Is cost-pull plus demand-pull inflation
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Question 311 pts
Nominal Interest Rate = Real Interest Rate + _____________.
Group of answer choices
Inflation
Taxes
GDP Deflator
Price Index
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Question 321 pts
The minimum level of consumption that would still exist even if a consumer had absolutely no income is:
Group of answer choices
Autonomous Consumption
Dissaving
Consumption Schedule
Consumption Schedule
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Question 331 pts
Consumption shifters include:
Group of answer choices
Interest Rates
Expectations
Borrowing
All of the other answers
Wealth and Disposable Income
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Question 341 pts
Levi’s is deciding whether to buy a jean rivet press machine for $1000. The company expects the machine to have a 1-year life. The machine is expected to contribute $1220 to the year’s net revenue. What is the expected rate of return?
Group of answer choices
33%
20%
22%
44%
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Question 351 pts
A construction firm is deciding which projects to invest in. It is deciding among five projects. The firm expects a real interest rate of 6%. Given the table, the construction firm will invest in:
Project |
E(R) |
A |
5% |
B |
9% |
C |
4% |
D |
2% |
E |
10% |
Group of answer choices
Projects A & B
Projects A, C, D
Projects B & E
Projects B & D
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Question 361 pts
If MPS = 0.25, then the multiplier is:
Group of answer choices
1
2
3
4
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Explain how the Heckscher-Ohlin theorem supports international trade between nations.
2. What is international price equalization? give examples
3. explain two differences between the new trade theory and the traditional trade theory.
4. Explain why America is better suited to export computers while Kenya is better suited to produce hides-and-skin
5. Explain why the infant-industry argument is valid.
6. Explain one reason why the U.S. dollar has higher value than the Indian Ruppies in the international exchange rate marketplace.
7. write out one major difference between a country's balance of trade(BOT) and Balance of Payment (bop).
8. Explain the reason why loans to a country are entered on the Credit Side of that country's Balance of Payment account.
9. Why does the supply of a country's currency increase if/when the country's level of imports increase.explain.
10. Analyze how the exchange rate of the u.s. dollar would be impacted by a fall in U.S. domestic interest rates.
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Sometimes when the U. S. economy starts pulling out of a recession, the unemployment rate actually rises for a time rather than immediately falling. This is commonly referred to as a "jobless recovery". There are 2 reasons for this strange phenomenon occurring. What are the 2 reasons? Explain. (Hint: Refer to the Extra PPT on Unemployment and Chapter 6 of the course text! You could also do an Internet search for "What is a jobless recovery?"!)
Additional questions to answer within this question:
Do ALL unemployed workers IMMEDIATELY find jobs when recovery begins? Why or why not?
Do some firms automatically hire new recently unemployed workers
or do some have existing
workers who were not unemployed work more hours to increase
production?
Do ALL“discouraged workers” who had left the labor force (and
hence are NOT counted as
unemployed since they’re NOT actively looking for work) get jobs
IMMEDIATELY
after coming back into the labor force when recovery begins?
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Discuss in depth the pros and cons of carbon pricing and emission permit trading as global climate policies.
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Suppose that prior to the increase in the money supply, equilibrium GDP was equal to potential GDP. What type of output gap now exists? If potential GDP does not increase, what will happen to equilibrium GDP in the long run?
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Based on your answers above, can expanding the money supply drive long-run growth? What is this relationship called?
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a. XYZ Inc. is accused of being a monopoly. The CEO claims that it’s not a monopoly, arguing that if XYZ were to raise its price it would lose sales. This is because consumers always have the option to spend their money on other goods. Is the CEO’s argument persuasive? Explain (6 pts.)
b. (Unrelated to the above) A monopoly firm is currently maximizing profit, earning economic profit of $10 million per year. It is now successfully sued by a former employee who is awarded $1 million. A manager of the firm argues that to recoup the lost $1 million, the firm needs to raise its price. Do you agree? Explain. (6 pts).
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How will the"Public Option" under the Affordable Care Act expansion Joe Biden is proposing impact the “market” specifically for health and medical services? Consider supply and demand.
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