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INDIRECT BUSINESS TAXES: The official entry in the National Income and Product Accounts maintained by the Bureau of Economic Analysis for sales taxes. Indirect business taxes are one key difference between national income (the resource cost of production) and gross/net domestic product (the market value of production). For further discussion of this point, see gross domestic product and national income or net domestic product and national income. Indirect business taxes, abbreviated IBT, is generally less than 10% of gross domestic product (7-8% is common).
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Lesson 7: Market | Unit 4: Adjustment
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- How competitive markets tend to be self-correcting because nonequilibrium prices create shortages and surpluses that move the price back to the equilibrium level.
- How shortages, with quantity demanded greater then quantity supplied, are created for prices below the equilibrium level.
- 3. Why a shortage causes price to increase back to the equilibrium level.
- How surpluses, with quantity demanded less then quantity supplied, are created for prices above the equilibrium level.
- Why a surplus causes price to decrease back to the equilibrium level.
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ADVERSE SELECTION An inefficient, bad, or adverse outcome of a market exchange that results because buyers and/or sellers make decisions based on asymmetric information. This commonly results in a market that exchanges a lesser quality good, what is termed the market for lemons. Two related problems resulting from asymmetric information are moral hazard and the principal-agent problem. Two methods of lessoning the problem of adverse selection are signalling and screening.
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The penny is the only coin minted by the U.S. government in which the "face" on the head looks to the right. All others face left.
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ECU European Currency Unit
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