Which policy measure increases the punishment for white-collar crime and obstruction of official investigations?
A) Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
B) Global Legal Settlement of 2002
C) Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999
D) Riegle-Neal Act of 1994
A
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The conversion of a barter economy to one that uses money
A) increases efficiency by reducing the need to exchange goods and services. B) increases efficiency by reducing the need to specialize. C) increases efficiency by reducing transactions costs. D) does not increase economic efficiency.
Refer to the above figure. Other things being equal, when the government imposes a price floor at P2, then we would expect
A) the quantity demanded is Q2. B) a surplus will occur. C) price to decline until an equilibrium is achieved at P0. D) consumers to bid against each other for goods and force the price even higher.
In 1947, which of the following activities were not made illegal for labor unions to do?
a. Coerce employees who are working at a firm to join a union b. Discriminate against employees c. Encourage employees to engage in a strike to force one employer to cease doing business with another employer d. Collect membership dues
Which of the following statements correctly characterizes the elasticity of demand for food?
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.