Financial managers use escalation to consider the effects of inflation on an acquisition program by applying:

a. compound and composite indices to program cost estimates

b. incremental funding policy to research, development, test, and evaluation (rdt& e)appropriations requested in the program objectives memorandum (pom)

c. full funding policy to defense procurement appropriations requested in the budget

d. inflation factors to actual costs incurred by the contractor

Consider the labor market for computer programmers. during the late 1990s, the value of the marginal product of all computer programmers increased dramatically. holding all else equal, what effect did this process have on the labor market for computer programmers? the equilibrium wagea. increased, and the equilibrium quantity of labor decreased. b. decreased, and the equilibrium quantity of labor increased. c. increased, and the equilibrium quantity of labor increased. d. decreased, and the equilibrium quantity of labor decreased.