SCENARIO 13-9 You Decide to Predict Gasoline Prices in Different Cities and Cities

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SCENARIO 13-9
You decide to predict gasoline prices in different cities and towns in the United States for your term project.Your dependent variable is price of gasoline per gallon and your explanatory variables are per capita income and the number of firms that manufacture automobile parts in and around the city.You collected data of 32 cities and obtained a regression sum of squares SSR= 122.8821.Your computed value of standard error of the estimate is 1.9549.
-Referring to SCENARIO 13-9, the value of adjusted r 2 is

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Definitions:

Crowding-Out Effect

The offset in aggregate demand that results when expansionary fiscal policy raises the interest rate and thereby reduces investment spending.

Government Spending

The total amount of money that a government expends on public services, social welfare programs, infrastructure, and defense, among other areas.

Interest Rates

A charge, expressed in terms of a percentage of the principal, applied by a lender to a borrower for using its resources.

Crowding-Out Effect

A situation where increased government spending leads to a reduction in private sector spending, often due to higher borrowing costs.