According to efficient market theory, which of the following can best predict the stock price of a particular company tomorrow?
A) a finance professor who knows a lot of investment theory
B) a stock trader who has traded stocks for more than 10 years
C) that company's employee who has inside information about the company
D) none of the above: Everyone has an equal chance of predicting future stock prices
C
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The Phillips curve is thought to reflect the relationship between
A) unemployment and inflation. B) the price level and inflation. C) unemployment and real GDP. D) inflation and real GDP.
How does the use of adjustable-rate mortgages affect interest-rate risk?
A) It reduces the interest-rate risk of lenders. B) It reduces the interest-rte risk of borrowers. C) It reduces the interest-rate risk of both lenders and borrowers. D) It increases the interest-rate risk of both lenders and borrowers.
Government regulators know that pollution is a problem in Cleveland. However, information on the social cost of this externality is difficult to come by
Which of the following statements best describes how this information problem might manifest itself? a. Well-intentioned regulators monitor a handful of polluting factors and are unable to determine how much they contribute to the problem. b. Well-intentioned regulators decide to shut down the plants and start government production in state-of-the-art factories. c. Well-intentioned regulators impose a collective tax that ends up reducing output beyond the optimal level of output. d. Well-intentioned regulators fail to do anything because they are afraid of doing the wrong thing.
A fall in the price level
A) increases the real value of money balances, which causes borrowing to decrease, leading to a decrease in investment and total planned real expenditures. B) causes exports to rise and imports to fall, leading to an increase in total planned real expenditures. C) leads to an increase in total planned real expenditures because of the indirect effect. D) causes total planned real expenditures to increase as long as the fall is less than the fall in the price level in other countries.