Question 1
4 out of 4 points
Income tax payments are an example of ____.
Question 2
4 out of 4 points
Economic profit is defined as the difference between revenue
and ____.
Question 3
4 out of 4 points
The Saturn Corporation (once a division of GM) was
permanently closed in 2009. What went
wrong with Saturn?
Question 4
4 out of 4 points
A Real Option Value is:
Question 5
4 out of 4 points
Shirking of one’s duties is often encountered in team
production settings because
Question 6
4 out of 4 points
The primary objective of a for-profit firm is to
___________.
Question 7
4 out of 4 points
The standard deviation is appropriate to compare the risk
between two investments only if
Question 8
4 out of 4 points
An closest example of a risk-free security is
Question 9
4 out of 4 points
Based on risk-return tradeoffs observable in the financial
marketplace, which of the following securities would you expect to offer higher
expected returns than corporate bonds?
Question 10
4 out of 4 points
The primary difference(s) between the standard deviation and
the coefficient of variation as measures of risk are:
Question 11
4 out of 4 points
The ____ is the ratio of ____ to the ____.
Question 12
4 out of 4 points
Generally, investors expect that projects with high expected
net present values also will be projects with
Question 13
4 out of 4 points
The factor(s) which cause(s) a movement along the demand
curve include(s):
Question 14
4 out of 4 points
Those goods having a calculated income elasticity that is
negative are called:
Question 15
4 out of 4 points
A price elasticity (ED) of ?1.50 indicates that for a ____
increase in price, quantity demanded will ____ by ____.
Question 16
4 out of 4 points
When demand is ____ a percentage change in ____ is exactly
offset by the same percentage change in ____ demanded, the net result being a
constant total consumer expenditure.
Question 17
4 out of 4 points
Iron ore is an example of a:
Question 18
4 out of 4 points
An increase in each of the following factors would normally
provide a subsequent increase in quantity demanded, except:
Question 19
4 out of 4 points
Producers’ goods are:
Question 20
4 out of 4 points
When two or more “independent” variables are
highly correlated, then we have:
Question 21
0 out of 4 points
In regression analysis, the existence of a significant
pattern in successive values of the error term constitutes:
Question 22
4 out of 4 points
In which of the following econometric problems do we find
Durbin-Watson statistic being far away from 2.0?
Question 23
4 out of 4 points
In testing whether each individual independent variables
(Xs) in a multiple regression equation is statistically significant in
explaining the dependent variable (Y), one uses the:
Question 24
4 out of 4 points
The standard deviation of the error terms in an estimated
regression equation is known as:
Question 25
4 out of 4 points
When using a multiplicative power function (Y = a X1b1 X2b2
X3b3) to represent an economic relationship, estimates of the parameters (a,
and the b’s) using linear regression analysis can be obtained by first applying
a ____ transformation to convert the function to a linear relationship.





