The government can help solve the information asymmetry problem by:
A. making it illegal to complete a transaction without complete information.
B. requiring the more informed party to not use the imbalance to their advantage.
C. providing the missing information to the less-informed party.
D. All of these statements are true.
Answer: C
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A) futures prices to revert to the prices of the underlying securities. B) the long-run mean return on stocks to equal the long-run mean return on bonds. C) stocks with high returns today to experience low returns in the future and for stocks with low returns today to experience high returns in the future. D) financial analysts whose stock picks have earned above-normal returns in the past to be unable to pick stocks that will perform as well in the future.
In long-run equilibrium, a perfectly competitive firms produces at the output level at which: a. total revenue is maximized
b. long-run marginal cost is minimized. c. average total cost is minimized. d. short-run variable cost is minimized.
Which of the following theories of expectations holds that individuals form expectations by looking only to past values of the variable to be forecast?
A. Rational expectations theory B. Certainty equivalent theory C. Expected value analysis D. Adaptive expectations theory
If a country is an exporter of a good, then it must be the case that
a. the world price is less than its domestic price. b. consumer surplus is higher than a no trade situation. c. the world price is greater than its domestic price. d. they used an infant-industry argument to protect its producers.