According to the crowding-out effect, if the federal government increases spending, the demand for money and the equilibrium interest rate will which will cause consumption, investment, and net exports to
a. increase; decrease
b. decrease; increase
c. decrease; decrease
d. increase; increase

a. increase; decrease

Explanation:

The crowding-out effect is one where public spending intended to increase spending in the economy (ie. aggregate demand, and thus stimulate the economy) results in less private spending, causing aggregate demand to increase less than the increase in public spending.

The reason is because as government spend they have to use money. That will raise demand for money, causing the its price (interest rate) to increase. Because money becomes more valuable (people have to forgo higher interest rate to spend their money or pay higher rate to borrow) there will be less spending on consumption and investment. Higher interest rate also causes net exports to decrease (more imports less exports).

a manufacturer of printed circuit boards uses exponential smoothing with trend to forecast monthly demand of its product. at the end of december, the company wishes to forecast sales for january. the estimate of trend through november has been 200 additional boards sold per month. average sales have been around 1000 units per month. the demand for december was 1100 units. the company uses α = 0.20 and β = 0.10. make a forecast including trend for the month of january.

107x106 is the answer