Other Things Being Equal, If Energy Prices Rise in a Country

question 304

Multiple Choice

Other things being equal, if energy prices rise in a country, then there would be

• A) cost-push inflation.
• B) demand-pull inflation.
• C) cost-push deflation.
• D) more production and a lower price level.

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