In: Economics
Please answer these with true and false answer, but use your explanations. Use diagrams if necessary.
1. Ian buys 100 shares of a hot cannabis stock for $1 each on the stock market and pays a brokerage commission of $9.99. The transaction adds $109.99 to GDP.
2. If the result of cannabis legalization in Canada is that the value added from the illegal transactions moves to a legal market, then GDP will increase and so will economic well-being.
3. Imagine that a country produces only two final goods: Cannabis (Cs) and Munchies (Ms). In Year 1 it produced 10 Cs at a price of $5 each and 50 Ms at a price of $1 each. In Year 2 it produced 15 Cs at a price of $6 and 50 Ms at a price of $2. If Year 1 is the base year, the inflation rate in the GDP deflator between Years 1 and 2 is 52%.
4. When aggregate consumption is $100 (billion) while disposable income is only $80 (billion), the marginal propensity to save from disposable income must be negative.