A defined benefit pension plan is designed to retain a worker at the same firm for his or her career

Indicate whether the statement is true or false


T The incentive has that effect in that the amount of the defined benefit pension rises considerably as retirement age approaches, and improves very little after that.

Economics

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You have invested $1,000 in a stock whose price is increasing at 10 percent a year. Your stock broker, who is never wrong, recommends a stock rising at 20 percent a year. Assuming the broker earns 4 percent of the stock’s value on any purchase or sale of the stock, should you take his or her recommendation?

What will be an ideal response?

Economics

If all firms are identical, output demand shifts cannot cause changes in output price in the long run.

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

Economics

Consider a situation where a government is deciding between two different taxes on beer. The first tax is $2.88 per case and the second is a tax of one cent per ounce placed on beer. Both are paid by the supplier

Assume both will raise the same amount of revenue this period. Pretend you are an advisor to the government and explain to them which tax they should enact.

Economics

Gls

A) results in smaller variances of the estimator than OLS if the regressors are strictly exogenous. B) is the same as OLS using HAC standard errors. C) can be used even if the regressors are not strictly exogenous. D) can be used for time-series estimation, but not in cross-sectional data.

Economics