Which of the following is NOT an economic function of government?
A. ensuring economic stability
B. providing government-inhibited goods
C. promoting competition
D. providing a legal system
Answer: B
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In the United States, the board of directors of corporations have a fiduciary responsibility to:
A. set the prices of the products the corporation produces. B. represent the interest of its shareholders. C. operate the company on a day-to-day basis. D. raise investment capital in their spare time.
Monetary policy can
A) shift the short-run trade-off between inflation and unemployment if it affects expected inflation. B) shift the long-run trade-off between inflation and unemployment through changes in cyclical unemployment. C) shift both the short-run and long-run trade-offs between inflation and unemployment if changes in policy are credible. D) shift neither the short-run nor long-run Phillips curve trade-offs between inflation and unemployment.
Principal-agent problems are less likely to arise
a. if it is easy for principals to know agents' actions and if there is less conflict between their goals b. if it is difficult for principals to know agents' actions and if there is less conflict between their goals c. if it is easy for principals to know agents' actions and if there is some difference in their goals d. if it is difficult for principals to know agents' actions and if there is some difference in their goals e. if agents have higher incomes
An increase in the price of a resource would cause: a. producers to substitute other inputs for the resource
b. consumers to substitute other products for goods that increase in price as the result of the higher resource price. c. an increase in the demand for products that use the resource intensely. d. both (a) and (b) to occur.