How and why did Europe set up its single currency?
What will be an ideal response?
The why part is because large fluctuations in the exchange rates among the European countries disturbed trade. Also, one of the main reasons was to design a way to prevent future world war. The how part of the question is related to the collapse of Bretton Woods and the European Currency reform of 1969-1978. The Werner Report of 1971 establishes three-phase program to lead to the EMU.
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A) real GDP may have increased, decreased, or stayed the same. B) real GDP definitely increased. C) real GDP definitely decreased. D) prices definitely increased.
For a natural monopoly to exist
A) a firm must continually buy up its rivals. B) a firm must have a government-imposed barrier. C) a firm's long-run average cost curve must exhibit diseconomies of scale beyond the economically efficient output level. D) a firm's long-run average cost curve must exhibit economies of scale throughout the relevant range of market demand.