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People benefit by participating in the market because:

A. Market participation allows individuals to specialize and, ultimately, consume more.

B. There are always participants in the market that are more efficient than you are in production.

C. Resources are no longer limited.

D. Participants in the market do not have to make choices.

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Discussion Questions These questions stem from the Class Discussion Questions you will be anwering in the Discussion Board. Think about the questions and how they relate to the financial management principles above.

2. Applications: State the financial management principle that appears to be violated in each of the following cases and explain how it is violated:

(a) A corporation is maximizing sales growth and the price of its corporate stock is falling.

(b) A highly paid financial manager in the auto industry quit his job to set up his own small auto repair shop, which is expected to incur a loss for the first three years then earn normal profits.

6. Given that resources are scarce:

A. A "free lunch" is possible, but only for a limited number of people.

B. Poor countries must make choices, but rich countries do not have to make choices.

C. Opportunity costs are experienced whenever choices are made.

D. Some choices involve opportunity costs while other choices do not

 

7. The opportunity cost of playing tennis with your friend is:

A. Negative since its good exercise

B. Zero since you already own the tennis racket and play on a public court

C. The next-best alternative use of your time that is forgone.

D. The cost of the tennis lessons you took last year.

 

8. The concept of opportunity cost would become irrelevant if:

A. The market mechanism functioned to allocate resources.

B. The government allocated resources.

C. The production possibilities curve bowed outward.

D. Resources were no longer scarce.

 

9. If resources are limited:

A. People will rush to buy more goods than they would otherwise.

B. Businesses will sell more products than they would otherwise.

C. Choices that involve tradeoffs must be made.

D. All individuals are deprived of basic necessities.

 

10. Which of the following is true about the factors of production?

A. The factors of production as well as technology determine the physical limits to production

B. Rich countries have an unlimited quantity of factors.

C. The factors include natural resources but not skilled labor.

D. Some factors are scarce but other factors are not.

 

Part 1.Choose the correct answer of the following:

1.In a market economy, economic activity is guided by

a.Self-interest and prices

b.The government.

c.Corporations.

d. Central planners.

2. Which of the following decisions must be made by all economies?

a.How much to produce? When to produce? How much does it cost?

b.What to produce? How to produce? For whom to produce?

c.What is the price? Who will produce it? Who will consume it?

d. None of the above

3.Since the resources used in the production of goods and services are limited, society must:

a.Reduce the use of those resources

b.Try to get more resources

c.Make choices about how to use resources

d.Focus on their most abundant resource

4.Which of the following observations was made famous by Adam Smith in his book The Wealth of Nations?

a.Households and firms interacting in markets are guided by an "invisible hand" that leads them to desirable market outcomes.

b.There is no such thing as a free lunch.

c.People buy more when prices are low than when prices are high.

d. No matter how much people earn, they tend to spend more than they earn.

5.If real GDP increased by 2 percent, then

a.Government spending increased by 2 percent

b.The price level has increased by 2 percent

c.Real output/production has increased by 2 percent

d. The increase might have been caused by an increase in the price level or output, but we cannot tell for sure

6. Which of the following would show an efficient economy?

a.Uses the least costly amount of resources available

b.Has a small amount of people who do not work

c.Resources are used to make the most goods and services possible

d.None of the above

7.What is the type of unemployment that occurs when people take time to find a job?

a.cyclical

b.frictional

c.Disguised

d.structural

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