First-price auctions have all the following properties EXCEPT
a. Highest bid wins
b. Highest bidder pays the second highest bid
c. The good is assigned to the highest bidder
d. The price is set to the highest bid
b
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Unemployment compensation is an example of
A) a subsidized service. B) a regressive income program. C) a Social Security benefit. D) an income maintenance program.
Refer to Table 18-1. Suppose a series of votes are taken in which each pair of alternatives is considered in turn. The first pair considered is between subsidies for education and research on Alzheimer's
The second pair considered is between Alzheimer's research and increased border security. The third pair considered is between education subsidies and increased border security. In this case, the collective preferences of the voters A) turn out to be transitive and will yield a consistent outcome. B) turn out not to be transitive but will yield a consistent outcome. C) turn out not to be transitive and will not result in a consistent outcome. D) turn out to be transitive but will not result in a consistent outcome.
If Luxury Cabinets, a kitchen cabinet manufacturer, builds a cabinet plant near Big Woods, a timber harvesting farm, to reduce the costs of transporting lumber, the cabinet plant is a(n) ________.
A) information asset B) negotiation asset C) transaction-specific asset D) monitoring cost
According to the quantity theory of money, if an economy produces 100 units of output and has a money supply equal to $500, then if the money supply doubles while velocity remains constant, the new price level will:
a. fall to half its initial level. b. fall, but it will not fall all the way to half its initial level. c. increase, but it will not double. d. double. e. more than double.