When regulated using rate of return regulation, who benefits from the practice of some natural monopolies to count sumptuous offices, free baseball tickets, golf excursions, and limousines as costs of production?

A) stockholders
B) managers of the monopoly
C) customers of the monopoly
D) regulators of the industry
E) None of the above answers is correct.


B

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If A and B are two disjoint sets, and "Pr" represents the probability, then Pr[A and B] will be:

a. negative. b. infinity. c. unity. d. zero.

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a. 12 percent b. 8 percent c. 10 percent d. 2 percent

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In the United States, government-imposed price supports are most often associated with

A) agricultural products. B) industrial products. C) consumer electronics. D) commercial building products.

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