Why should companies invest in strategic relationships?
a. Relationship stability
b. Steady revenue
c. Improved capacity utilization
d. Lower availability
e. All of the above
f. Only A, B, and C
e. all of the above
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Assume a simplified banking system in which all banks are subject to a uniform reserve requirement of 20 percent and checkable deposits are the only form of money. A bank that received a new checkable deposit of $10,000 would be able to extend new loans up to a maximum of
A. $2,000.
B. $8,000.
C. $9,000.
D. $10,000.
An individual bank can lend out at most its:
a. actual reserves. b. fractional reserves. c. legal reserves. d. checkable deposits. e. excess reserves.
In the standard Becker model of discrimination, each firm is associated with a discrimination coefficient of d > 0 and acts as if the wage paid to blacks is wB(1 + d) where wB is the actual hourly wage paid to blacks. Assume whites and blacks are equally productive. The going wage for whites is $16 per hour while the going wage for blacks is $10 per hour. Which of the following will characterize the labor market equilibrium when some employers have discriminatory preferences against hiring black workers?
A. An employer with a discrimination coefficient of 2.2 will hire only black workers. B. All firms will earn the same amount of profit regardless of their discriminatory preferences. C. All discriminating employers will hire only white workers. D. An employer with a discrimination coefficient of 0.8 will hire only white workers. E. Any employer with a positive discrimination coefficient will hire only white workers.
A World View article titled "Japan Sees Quake Damage Bill of Up to $309 Billion, Almost Four Katrinas" implies that the most likely impact from power shortages from this destruction would be
A. A leftward shift of aggregate supply. B. An increase in GDP. C. A rightward movement down the Phillips curve. D. A decrease in inflation.