Rating agencies ______ the risk of mortgage-backed securities.
a. accurately assessed
b. overestimated
c. underestimated
d. warned investors of
c. underestimated
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The "shoe-leather" cost of a fully anticipated inflation is
A) the inconvenience of holding less cash. B) the higher prices of imported raw materials due to currency depreciation. C) the extra time spent on shopping in order to beat price increases. D) the effort of changing posted prices on price tags and producing new price lists and catalogs.
Suppose managers of an art auction house are going to auction a painting that is believed to be painted by a famous artist. If the managers of the auction are able to provide evidence that the painting was created by the famous artist, the participants in the auction will have ________ confidence in their own valuation of the painting and will submit ________ bids.
A) less; lower B) less; more C) more; lower D) more; higher
When there are economies of scale,
a. per-unit costs increase as output increases b. per-unit costs decrease as output increases c. per-unit costs are constant as output increases d. output does not affect per-unit costs
The equilibrium price of labor is called:
A. the wage. B. income, plus benefits. C. opportunity cost. D. the leisure trade-off.