Which of the following methods could be used to correct for external costs?
A) Impose a tax or an effluent fee on the offenders.
B) Have the offender clean up the pollution it caused.
C) Require firms in the industry to install pollution control devices.
D) All of the above would be appropriate.
Answer: D
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A) failure of technical analysis to outperform the market. B) the random walk behavior of stock prices. C) the inability of mutual fund managers to consistently beat the market. D) the January effect.
Zero inflation
a. might be dangerous because it could lead to rapidly increasing prices. b. would limit the flexibility of the labor market and so could at times raise unemployment. c. would make it easy for the Central bank to create negative real interest rates. d. is impossible to achieve in the real world.
When businesses cooperate and agree to hold prices high, it is called ________, and when they reach a noncooperative equilibrium it is called ________.
A. commitment strategy; collusion B. collusion; commitment strategy C. collusion; competition D. competition; collusion
The root cause of our selling off piece after piece of our country can be traced to
A. our low interest rates. B. our high tax rates. C. our large trade deficits. D. our low cost of living.