The Diagram Below Shows Desired Aggregate Expenditure for a Hypothetical

question 20

Multiple Choice

The diagram below shows desired aggregate expenditure for a hypothetical economy.Assume the following features of this economy: • marginal propensity to consume (mpc) = 0.80
• net tax rate (t) = 0.15
• no foreign trade
• fixed price level
• all expenditure and income figures are in billions of dollars. FIGURE 22-3
Refer to Figure 22-3.What is the level of autonomous consumption?

• A)$0
• B)$325
• C)$350
• D)$650
• E)$1000

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Definitions:

Monopolistically Competitive

A business environment defined by numerous companies offering products that are alike but not exactly the same, providing them with a certain level of influence over the market.

Pure Monopolist

A market scenario where a single firm is the sole provider of a product or service, without any close substitutes, giving the firm significant market power to influence prices.

Elastic

Describes a situation in which the demand for a product is sensitive to price changes.

Excess Capacity

Plant resources that are underused when imperfectly competitive firms produce less output than that associated with achieving minimum average total cost.