You study horse racing avidly and discover for this year's Kentucky Derby you think you have the field pretty well figured out. In fact, you calculate the expected return and it is the same as the expected return you are getting from the stock market. Is this investment in the race valuable to you?
What will be an ideal response?
While the opportunity to win at the horse race is present, so is the opportunity to lose your investment. The same situation exists with the stock market. One key difference, however, is the stock market offers the opportunity to diversify risk through spreading, this opportunity does not exist with a single horse race, it will be all or nothing.
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Suppose that households became mistrustful of the banking system and decide to decrease their checking account balances and increase their holdings of currency
Using the money demand and money supply model and assuming everything else is held constant, the equilibrium interest rate should A) decrease. B) increase. C) not change. D) increase, then decrease.
Refer to Figure 7-2. The market equilibrium quantity is ________ thousand vaccinations
A) 200 B) 400 C) 600 D) > 600
Refer to Figure 12.5. If exchange rates are floating, an expansionary monetary policy would best be represented by a movement from ________ in panel (a) and a corresponding movement from ________ in panel (b)
A) point A to point B; point X to point Y B) point C to point A; point X to point Y C) point D to point C; point Y to point X D) point B to point D; point Y to point X
As the output produced by a firm increases, the average fixed cost:
a. continues to decline. b. initially increases, and then declines. c. quickly drops to zero. d. becomes constant. e. declines and finally becomes negative.