Government regulations that set an environmental goal and dictate how the goal will be achieved are called:

A. effluent-offset regulations.
B. incentive-based regulations.
C. Coasian regulations.
D. command-and-control-regulations.


Answer: D

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a. While food demand is not very responsive to changes in price, increases in income produce big increases in the demand for food. b. As income increases, the quantity demanded of food decreases. c. If the price of food falls by 5 percent, quantity demanded will rise by less than 5 percent. d. People consume the same amount of food regardless of the price of food.

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Securities exchanges pay no attention to hedge funds

a. True b. False

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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

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