In markets-oriented systems an under-performing "entrenched" management is often replaced by
A) SEC regulators.
B) a hostile takeover.
C) stockholders electing a new board of directors to fire the managers.
D) the bank that owns the firm firing them.
B
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Because the productivity of labor decreases as the quantity of labor employed increases
A) the quantity of labor a firm demands increases as the real wage rate decreases. B) the quantity of labor a firm demands increases as the money wage rate decreases. C) the labor demand curve shifts right as the real wage rate decreases. D) the aggregate production function shifts upward as the real wage rate decreases.
Mary Green takes a summer course in London, England. She doesn't buy British pounds at the U.S. airport, where the rate is 1 pound = $1.60 . Upon arrival in London, she finds that she can buy pounds for $1.65 each. Which of the following is true?
a. Green would have been better off if she had bought pounds in the United States where U.S. dollars were cheaper. b. Green would have been better off if she had bought pounds in the United States where pounds were less expensive. c. The pounds were more expensive in London because a currency is always most valued in its home country. d. The pounds were more expensive in the United States because they are less available there. e. It doesn't matter where she buys the pounds, since she can't use U.S. money anyway once she's in England.
If aggregate demand shifts outward, the result will be inflation
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
In markets characterized by oligopoly,
a. the oligopolists earn the highest profit when they cooperate and behave like a monopolist. b. collusive agreements will always prevail. c. collective profits are always lower with cartel arrangements than they are without cartel arrangements. d. pursuit of self-interest by profit-maximizing firms always maximizes collective profits in the market.