The process of combining many different debt instruments like home mortgages into a pool of hundreds of thousands of individual contracts and then selling new financial instruments is called
A) Securitization.
B) Leveraging.
C) Sub-priming.
D) NINJA loaning.
A
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Professional baseball teams in the United States use only wooden bats. If aluminum bats were permitted, the likely result would be a
A. shift in the supply curve for aluminum bats. B. shift in the supply curve for wooden bats. C. change in the quantity supplied of aluminum bats. D. persistent shortage of aluminum bats.
Consider a used car market in which half the cars are good and half are bad (lemons). Suppose the average price of a good car is $9,000 and the average price of a lemon is $3,000
If rational buyers are willing to pay $6,000 for a used car, then sellers will agree to sell mostly lemons at this price. What is the term used to describe this situation? A) adverse selection B) an efficient market C) moral hazard D) economic irrationality
The "Buy American" provision in the 2009 stimulus package required that stimulus money be spent only on U.S.-made goods, effectively acting as a quota of zero imports when stimulus money was being spent. In the U.S
steel market, the "Buy American" provision in the 2009 stimulus package would A) reduce the producer surplus received by foreign manufacturers. B) transfer some deadweight loss to producer surplus. C) transfer some producer surplus to consumer surplus. D) convert some consumer surplus to deadweight loss.
Suppose that 10,000 people are willing to spend a maximum of $20 each to preserve one acre of rainforest. A conservation group mails out a request to each person asking him or her to mail in $40 to preserve one acre of rainforest. How many acres of rainforest will be preserved with this program?
a. Zero acres b. 1,000 acres c. 5,000 acres d. 10,000 acres e. There is not enough information to answer the question