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Redwolflake15

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Employing a fixed-weight index like the Consumer Price Index to adjust a person's salary in response to inflation will overcompensate this person because doing so will allow this person to
 
  A) buy the same bundle of goods as he did before the inflation.
  B) achieve a higher level of utility than he did before the inflation.
  C) achieve the same level of utility as before the inflation.
  D) buy more of all goods.

Question 2

A Consumer Price Index (CPI) adjustment overcompensates for inflation because it ignores
 
  A) the income effect when relative prices change.
  B) the substitution effect when relative prices change.
  C) that some goods are inferior.
  D) that the substitution effect may offset the income effect.


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Answer to Question 1

B

Answer to Question 2

B



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