Everything else held constant, in the market for reserves, when the demand for federal funds intersects the reserve supply curve along the horizontal section, increasing the discount rate
A) increases the federal funds rate.
B) lowers the federal funds rate.
C) has no effect on the federal funds rate.
D) has an indeterminate effect on the federal funds rate.
A
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A) transaction costs. B) indirect financing. C) direct financing. D) moral hazard.
Which of the following is an example of foreign direct investment in China?
A) Chinese Shenzen Airlines company buys a small U.S. midwest airline company, Air Chicago. B) The bank of China purchases U.S. Treasury bonds. C) A U.S. foreign exchange speculator buys $200,000 worth of the Chinese currency the yuan. D) The U.S. company Walmart buys a warehouse in Shanghai. E) U.S. auto entrepreneur Elon Musk buys stock in Alibaba Group Holding Limited of Hangzhou, China.
Which of the following is not true of derived demand?
A. It derives from the price of output goods. B. It is a function of marginal physical productivity. C. It is the marginal revenue product curve. D. It is not affected by prices of the input factors.
Some good did come from the internet bubble of the late 1990s. One good thing was that:
A. people learned they should not invest in dotcom companies. B. the theory of efficient markets doesn't always hold and consistently better-than-market returns are achievable. C. start-up companies found they could bypass venture capitalists and raise funds directly from the capital markets. D. stock market bubbles do not have to result in an inefficient allocation of resources.