If the current shareholders begin to believe that the prices of the stocks are likely to rise in the future, the supply curve of shares will:
a. shift to the right.
b. become perfectly elastic.
c. slope downward.
d. shift to the left.
e. become perfectly inelastic.
d
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The figure above shows the market for pizza
a) If the price of a slice of pizza is $3, what is the consumer surplus of the 50th slice? b) If the price of a slice of pizza is $3, what is the producer surplus of the 50th slice? c) What is the efficient quantity? What is the equilibrium quantity? What is the deadweight loss when the equilibrium quantity is produced?
If in an efficient market all prices are correct and reflect market fundamentals, which of the following is a FALSE statement?
A) A stock that has done poorly in the past is more likely to do well in the future. B) One investment is as good as any other because the securities' prices are correct. C) A security's price reflects all available information about the intrinsic value of the security. D) Security prices can be used by managers to assess their cost of capital accurately.
When the nominal exchange rate in terms of dollars per yen rises
A) the dollar buys more yen and the dollar has depreciated. B) the dollar buys fewer yen and the dollar has depreciated. C) the dollar buys more yen and the dollar has appreciated. D) the dollar buys fewer yen and the dollar has appreciated.
Suppose firms in an industry hire unskilled labor and skilled labor. Unskilled labor is a substitute for capital and skilled labor is a complement with capital. A decrease in the real price of capital would
A) cause the demand for labor to increase, raising wages of both skilled and unskilled labor. B) cause the demand for unskilled labor to increase and the demand for skilled labor to decrease. The wage of unskilled labor would rise relative to the wage of skilled labor. C) cause the demand for unskilled labor to decrease and the demand for skilled labor to increase. The wage of unskilled labor would decrease relative to the wage of skilled labor. D) cause the demand for both kinds of labor to decrease. Wages rates of both kinds of labor would decrease too.