Multiple Choice
Assume you define your permanent income as the average of your income over the most recent five years, and you always consume 90% of your permanent income.What is your current consumption if your income was $30,000 in the first of these five years and each year from then on you got a raise of $2,000?
A) $36,000
B) $34,200
C) $30,600
D) $28,800
E) $27,000
Correct Answer:

Verified
Correct Answer:
Verified
Q40: Assume you unexpectedly inherit $20,000.Which of the
Q41: Actual consumption behavior exhibits both "excess smoothness"
Q42: In 1968, President Johnson and Congress implemented
Q43: The permanent-income theory of consumption implies that<br>A)the
Q44: The sensitivity of current consumption to changes
Q45: According to the life-cycle theory of consumption,
Q47: The permanent-income theory of consumption asserts that
Q48: According to the permanent-income theory of consumption,
Q49: The long-run marginal propensity to consume (mpc)
Q50: According to the life-cycle theory of consumption,