Question

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) controls much of the world's production of oil. If its members decide to lower their daily oil production, the price per barrel can rise. This can result not only in increased gasoline prices, but a general increase in prices over much of the economy because of the increased cost of transportation and production. This inflationary end result is predicted by the economic theory of __________.

Answer 1

demand-pull inflation
hyperinflation
trade deficit inflation
cost-push inflation

Answer 2

D) Cost-Push Inflation
caused by substantial increases in the cost of important goods or services where no suitable alternative is available. A situation that has been often cited of this was the oil crisis of the 1970s, which some economists see as a major cause of the inflation experienced in the Western world in that decade. It is argued that this inflation resulted from increases in the cost of petroleum imposed by the member states of OPEC. Since petroleum is so important to industrialised economies, a large increase in its price can lead to the increase in the price of most products, raising the inflation rate. This can raise the normal or built-in inflation rate, reflecting adaptive expectations and the price/wage spiral, so that a supply shock can have persistent effects.

Answer 3

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost-push_inflation