A Microeconomist Wants to Determine How Corporate Sales Are Influenced

question 54

Multiple Choice

A microeconomist wants to determine how corporate sales are influenced by capital and wage spending by companies.She proceeds to randomly select 26 large corporations and record information in millions of dollars.A statistical analyst discovers that capital spending by corporations has a significant inverse relationship with wage spending.What should the microeconomist who developed this multiple regression model be particularly concerned with?

• A)Randomness of error terms
• B)Collinearity
• C)Normality of residuals
• D)Missing observations

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Definitions:

Consumer Price Index

The Consumer Price Index measures the average change over time in the prices paid by consumers for a basket of goods and services.

Base Year

Base year is a specific year against which economic growth or other market indices are measured, serving as a standard or reference point for economic analysis.

CPI

The Consumer Price Index reflects the weighted average price changes in a variety of consumer goods and services, such as medical services, food, and transportation.

Goods and Services

Physical products (goods) and intangible assistance or benefits (services) produced to satisfy the wants and needs of consumers.