Everything Else Held Constant,an Increase in Marginal Tax Rates Would

question 20

Multiple Choice

Everything else held constant,an increase in marginal tax rates would likely have the effect of ________ the demand for municipal bonds,and ________ the demand for U.S. government bonds.

• A)increasing;increasing
• B)increasing;decreasing
• C)decreasing;increasing
• D)decreasing;decreasing

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Definitions:

Diseconomies of Scale

A condition in which a firm experiences an increase in average costs as it increases its output, due to factors such as inefficiencies or complexity.

Marginal Product

The change in total output that results from the employment of one additional unit of a resource.

Marginal Cost

Represents the change in total production costs resulting from making one additional unit of a product or service.

Economies of Scale

Advantages in cost that businesses gain from expanding their production scale, leading to a decrease in the average cost per unit produced as the operation size grows.