The income effect describes the:
a. incentive to work more when the wage rises.
b. incentive to work less when the wage rises.
c. decision whether to join the labor force.
d. decision to ask for a raise.
e. incentive to change jobs.

Afinancial institution, the thriftem bank, is in the process of formulating its loan policy for the next quarter. a total of $12 million is allocated for that purpose. being a full-service facility, the bank is obligated to grant loans to different clientele. the following table provides the types of loans, the interest rate charged by the bank, and the possibility of bad debt as estimated from past experience.type of loaninterest rateprobability of bad debtpersonal.140.10car.130.07home.120.03farm.125.05commercial.100.02 bad debts are assumed unrecoverable and hence produce no interest revenue either. competition with other financial institutions in the area requires that the bank allocate at least 40% of the total funds to farm and commercial loans. to assist the housing industry in the region, home loans must equal at least 50% of the personal, car, and home loans. the bank also has a stated policy specifying that the overall ratio for bad debts on all loans may not exceed .04. formulate this problem as a linear program. define your variables clearly and write all the constraints explaining the significance of each.

After the 2008 recession, the amount of reserves in the us banking system increased. because of federal reserve actions, required reserves increased from $44 billion to $60 billion. however, banks started holding more reserves than required. by january 2009, banks were holding $900 billion in excess reserves. the federal reserve started paying interest on the excess reserves that the banks held. what possible impact will these unused reserves have on the economy?

Interview notes mike is 50 and made $36,000 in wages in 2017. he is single and pays all the cost of keeping up his home. mike's daughter, brittany, lived with mike all year. brittany's son, hayden, was born in november 2017. hayden lived in mike's home since birth. brittany is 25, single, and had $1,500 in wages in 2017. she is not disabled. mike provides more than half of the support for both brittany and hayden. mike, brittany, and hayden are all u.s. citizens with valid social security numbers. 4. who can mike claim as a qualifying child(ren) for the earned income credit?