Explain how the following items would be entered into the U. S. balance of payments. In each case identify which speci c accounts are a ected (e. g., imports of goods and services, IM; exports of assets, EXA; and so on): (i) A U. S. tourist to Japan sells his iPod to a local resident for yen worth $100. (ii) The U. S. central bank purchases $500 million worth of U. S. Treasury bonds from a British nancial rm and sells pound sterling foreign reserves. (iii) A U. S. owner of Sony shares receives $10,000 in dividend payments, which are paid into a Tokyo bank. (iv) The central bank of China purchases $1 million of export earnings from a rm that has sold $1 million of toys to the United States, and the central bank holds these dollars as reserves. (v) The U. S. government forgives a $50 million debt owed by a developing country.

Which of the following events could increase the demand for labor? a. an increase in the marginal productivity of workers b. a decrease in the amount of capital available for workers to use c. a decrease in the wage paid to workers d. a decrease in output price

For example, the upper right cell shows that if expresso advertises and beantown doesn't advertise, expresso will make a profit of $15 million, and beantown will make a profit of $2 million. assume this is a simultaneous game and that expresso and beantown are both profit-maximizing firms. if expresso decides to advertise, it will earn a profit of $ million if beantown advertises and a profit of $ million if beantown does not advertise. if expresso decides not to advertise, it will earn a profit of $ million if beantown advertises and a profit of $ million if beantown does not advertise. if beantown advertises, expresso makes a higher profit if it chooses . if beantown doesn't advertise, expresso makes a higher profit if it chooses . suppose that both firms start off not advertising. if the firms act independently, what strategies will they end up choosing? expresso will choose to advertise and beantown will choose not to advertise. expresso will choose not to advertise and beantown will choose to advertise. both firms will choose to advertise. both firms will choose not to advertise.

Is quadrilateral jklm the result of a dilation of quadrilateralabcd by a scale factor of 2? why or why not? o yes, because sides jk and ml are twice as long assides ab and dc.yes, because both figures are parallelograms, socorresponding sides are parallelno, because sides jk and ml are not twice as long assides ab and dc.no, because sides jm and kl have different slopesfrom sides ad and bc.