Recently, the government noticed that the consumption of cigarettes has increased among working individuals. to counter this increase, the government decides to raise the cost of cigarettes by increasing the excise tax on them. after six months, the government observes that the consumption of cigarettes has decreased to some extent. which type of taxation did the government use? direct tax indirect tax progressive tax proportional tax

Suppose that the u.s. dollars-mexican pesos exchange rate is fixed by the u.s. and mexican governments. assume also that labor is mobile between the united states and mexico due to low transportation costs.which of the following situations is likely to happen as a result of a simultaneous increase in the demand for u.s. goods and decrease in the demand for mexican goods? (pick mexican unemployment rate increases, and the country undergoes bad economic times for a sustained u.s. unemployment rate increases, and the country undergoes bad economic times for a sustained mexican unemployment rate rises at first, but it soon drops as unemployed mexicans move to the united states for mexican unemployment rate rises at first, but then it drops as mexican pesos depreciate against u.s. dollars.