A downward-sloping straight line has a decreasing slope
a. True
b. False
B
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When a country's real exchange rate appreciates,
A) its nominal exchange rate must also have appreciated. B) its nominal exchange rate must have depreciated. C) it can trade its goods for fewer units of foreign goods. D) it can trade its goods for more units of foreign goods.
All of the following are required to make a tying arrangement vulnerable to antitrust prosecution except which one?
A) There must be some nontrivial amount of commerce affected by the tying contract. B) There must be proof of an actual tie between two products. C) There must be at least two products involved. D) The seller cannot have substantial market power in the market for the tying product.
In the economic world of production, there are either price makers or price takers. By price takers we mean that
a. firms buy goods as well as sell them, and when they buy goods at whatever price, they play the role of "takers" b. firms take control of their own markets, charging whatever price they think the market will bear c. firms take the market price as given d. firms create the price and consumers either take it or leave it e. the market takes whatever price the firms charge, which is how the downward-sloping demand curve is created
You are a hotel manager considering four projects that yield different payoffs, depending upon whether there is an economic boom or a recession. The potential payoffs and corresponding payoffs are summarized in the following table. ProjectBoom (50%)Recession (50%)A$40-$20B-$10$30C$50-$50D$60$60If a manager adopted both project A and project B simultaneously, the expected value of this joint project would be:
A. $40. B. $20. C. $30. D. None of the statements are correct.