1. Your friend just got an unexpected $1500 tax refund. She plans to put $800 toward paying off credit card debt, put $300 toward her student loans, and use the remaining $400 to purchase a new grill for her deck. What is your friend's marginal propensity to consume? By how much has she increased her net wealth?

1. Your friend just got an unexpected $1500 tax refund. She plans to put $800 toward paying off credit card debt, put $300 toward her student loans, and use the remaining $400 to purchase a new grill for her deck. What is your friend's marginal propensity to consume? By how much has she increased her net wealth?

ENGR.ECONOMIC ANALYSIS

14th Edition

ISBN:9780190931919

Author:NEWNAN

Publisher:NEWNAN

Chapter1: Making Economics Decisions

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 1QTC

See similar textbooks

Similar questions

22. Suppose economists observe that an increase in government spending of $10 billion raises the total demand for goods and services by $50 billion. What is the multiplier effect in this case?
!
If Wanda's income is reduced to zero after she loses her job, her consumption will be and her saving will be less than zero; less than zero greater than zero; greater than zero less than zero; greater than zero greater than zero; less than zero
How much more would you spend if you won a $1,000 lottery prize? Why might your average and marginal propensities to consume differ?
Please no written by hand solutions Data on before-tax income, taxes paid and consumption spending (on domestic goods and services) for the Simpson family in various years are given below. BEFORE-TAX INCOME ($) TAX PAID ($) CONSUMPTION SPENDING ($) 3000 3500 3700 4000 25 000 27 000 28 000 30 000 20 000 21 350 22 070 23 600 a. Graph the Simpsons's consumption function and find their household's marginal propensity to consume. b. How much would you expect the Simpsons to consume if their income was $32 000 and they paid taxes of $5000? c. Homer Simpson wins a lottery prize. As a result, the Simpson family increases its consumption by $1000 at each level of after-tax income. ('Income' does not include the prize money.) How does this change affect the graph of their consumption function? How does it affect their marginal propensity to consume?
O Use the information in the following table to do exercises 8-15: 948 Y C $120 $300 $480 $700 sin $660 $100 $300 $500 JAZI I $20 $20 $20 $20 G $30 $30 $30 $30 X $10 -$10 -$30 -$50 1
Please see attachment Answer neatly Show all your work. Based on the above diagram: 1. Calculate MPC? 2. If Private Investment increases by 100, calculate the new level of NI. 3. If full-employment NI is at 3000, by how much should Government spending change? 4. What is the new NI, If 1/2 of those government expenditures are financed through taxes?
4. If you save $20 when you experience a $200 rise in your income:(A) your marginal propensity to save is 0.2. (B) your marginal propensity to consume is 0.9.(C) your marginal propensity to consume is 0.1.(D) your marginal propensity to consume is 0.8.
Suppose that there is an autonomous increase in investment spending of $20 billion and the MPC is given as 0.4, and assuming taxes, imports, and savings are all equal and there are no leakages: How large is the spending multiplier? Use the simple multiplier equation to calculate it. How much is the total change in GDP from this autonomous increase in investment spending? Do you think a larger or smaller MPC would help the economy, and why? What could be some concerns about the Keynesian spending multiplier?
The table below provides income and consumption data in billions of dollars: Disposable Income Consumption Savings 100 80 --- 200 150 --- What is the multiplier for the economy represented? A) 3.33 B) 1.42 C) 0.5 D) 4
!
!