When interest rates in a given economy are reduced, it causes firms to employ __________ capital goods. In terms of the production function (graphed with labor on the horizontal axis and Real GDP on the vertical axis), this then causes ____________________

A) more; the production function to shift upward
B) less; the production function to shift downward
C) more; a movement up along a given production function
D) more; a movement down along a given production function


A

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Market power may result from all of the following except

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