[单项选择]If consumer incomes increase, the effect consumer decisions about how much they want to buy can be shown by ______
A. shifting demand curve outward (to the right).
B. shifting supply curve outward.
C. shifting the demand curve inward (to the left).
D. moving downward to the right along the demand curve.
E. shifting the supply curve inward.

[单项选择]If investors’ expected future incomes increase, all else constant, interest rates will:（）
A. fall, while an increase in the demand for financial capital will cause rates to rise.
B. rise, while an increase in the demand for financial capital will cause rates to fall.
C. rise, while an increase in the demand for financial capital will also cause rates to rise.

[单项选择]When incomes in foreign countries increase, aggregate demand in the U.S. is likely to:（）
A. Increase because foreign consumers will tend to buy more U.S. export goods.
B. Decrease because U.s. interest rates will tend to increase.
C. Increase because U.S. interest rates will tend to decrease.

[单项选择]What is the most likely effect of an increase in volatility on the price of a: Call option Put option ①A. Decrease Increase ②B. Decrease Decrease ③C. Increase Increase

[简答题]net discretionary incomes

[单项选择]In addition to redistributing incomes, inflation may affect the total real income and production of the community. An increase in prices is usually associated with high employment. In moderate inflation, industries are operating efficiently and output is near capacity. There is a great deal of private investment and jobs are plentiful. Such has been the historical pattern. Thus many business persons and union leaders, in evaluating a little deflation and a little inflation, consider the latter to be the lesser of two evils. In mild inflation, the losses to fixed-income groups are usually less than gains to the rest of the community. Even workers with relatively fixed wages are often better off because of improved employment opportunities and greater take-home pay, a rise in interest rates on new securities may partly compensate for any losses to creditor, and increases in pension benefits may partly make up losses to retirees.
In deflation, on the other hand, the growing unemploym
A. there will be more production and employment
B. private investment will be moderate and people’s income will be influenced
C. the bad effects of the two evils will be associated with each other
D. industrial revolution made men and women more equal

[多项选择]
Contrast effect is a psychological phenomenon related to judgment. Typically, when we experience any given thing, we tend to compare it to other things of the same type. We especially compare it to things of the same type that we most recently experienced. This tendency interferes with our ability to make unbiased judgments of any article based on its inherent qualities and/or its suitability for a given purpose. The phenomenon has important applications in marketing, politics, and game theory to name but a few.
Question: Using information from the reading and the lecture, explain how the professor’s personal experience is related to the reading passage.
Now hear a talk on the same subject.

[简答题]Do Famous People Deserve High Incomes
In the first part of your essay you should present your thesis statement, and in the second part you should support the thesis statement with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or a summary.
Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.

[填空题]The survey argues that third-world incomes are automatically regulated by______.

[多项选择]Below is a table showing the incomes based on different educational level. Look at the table and write an essay of about 120 words making reference to the following points:
1) 教育程度与收入的关系
2) 产生这一变化的原因
3) 未来的趋势
Incomes Based on Different Educational Level in 1997 Benefit Rate from
Total The 25 -35 Age Group Education % Taking the Taking the
Per-capita averagein- Per-capita average in-
come of those come of those
income income
with a prima- with a prima-
( yuan ) ( yuan )
ry school ed- ry school ed-
ucation as 1 ucation as 1
At or above
graduate level 10,743.98 1.65 9,472.26 1.84 8.1
College level 9,237.45 1.42 8,234.61 1.60 8.9
Secondary<

[单项选择]The sum of all incomes in a country is called the（）
A. economic income
B. productive income
C. financial income
D. national income

[填空题]
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