Under most circumstances, a corporate firm will choose to use retained earnings as a way to finance its activities because
A. it carries a higher cost than issuing new shares of stock.
B. there is less regulatory review when internal funds are used for financing.
C. current stockholders experience the dilution of their share of stock.
D. All of these alternatives are reasons that corporations prefer to use retained earnings.
Answer: B
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The money demand curve has a
A) positive slope because an increase in the price level increases the quantity of money demanded. B) negative slope because an increase in the interest rate decreases the quantity of money demanded. C) negative slope because an increase in the price level decreases the quantity of money demanded. D) positive slope because an increase in the interest rate increases the quantity of money demanded.
A key reason that Congress established the Fed to act as a lender of last resort was to prevent ________, the process by which a run on one bank spreads to other banks, resulting in a bank panic
A) contagion B) asset inflation C) moral hazard D) bailouts
As the level of real GDP increases, the short-run aggregate supply curve:
a. shifts to the right. b. shifts to the left. c. becomes flatter. d. becomes steeper. e. becomes horizontal to the real GDP axis.
Suppose Joe's MRS for cookies with crackers is 6 crackers per cookie. Also assume that Mary's MRS for cookies with crackers is 3 crackers per cookie. Assuming that these rates of substitution don't depend on the amounts consumed, which of the following trades would make both Joe and Mary better off?
A. Joe gives Mary 5 crackers in exchange for a cookie. B. Joe gives Mary 2 crackers in exchange for a cookie. C. Joe gives Mary 6 crackers in exchange for a cookie. D. There is not enough information to answer the question.