Which of the following measures are government regulations to increase competition?
A) Government ends the ban on steel imports.
B) Government shortens the term of the patent for a drug.
C) Government subsidizes firms to enter energy market.
D) All of above.
D
You might also like to view...
Spot transactions
A) involve immediate settlement. B) may only take place in face-to-face trading. C) take place on-the-spot, rather than on an organized exchange. D) are relatively unimportant in financial markets.
Of the world's countries, which of the following can be said of their real GDP growth rates in recent years?
A. Countries like China and India have experienced higher rates of growth than the U.S. B. The U.S. has always had the highest growth rate in the world. C. Neither of these statements is true. D. Both of these statements are true, since the U.S. was highest until 2010, when China surpassed it.
The economy is at full employment when the actual rate of unemployment equals the
a. labor force minus the number of discouraged workers b. rate of frictionally unemployed plus the rate of structurally unemployed workers c. rate of cyclically unemployed plus the rate of structurally unemployed workers d. natural rate of unemployment minus the rate of cyclically unemployed workers e. rate of discouraged workers plus the rate of underemployed workers
The low interest rate policies of the Federal Reserve during 2002-2004,
a. indicated that monetary policy was highly restrictive. b. increased the demand for housing, placing upward pressure on housing prices. c. made home mortgages less attractive, weakening the demand for housing. d. was on target with the federal funds rate proscribed by the Taylor rule.