When are businesses likely to outsource some of their activities?

Like decisions to integrate, decisions to outsource also depend on the relative costs and benefits of internal and external activities. Businesses are more likely to outsource when performance is easy to measure, alternative suppliers are available, and contracting is not costly.

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In the figure above, to use fiscal policy to move the economy back to potential GDP, the government must increase government expenditure by ________ $1 trillion and/or decrease taxes by ________ $1 trillion

A) more than; more than B) less than; less than C) less than; more than D) exactly; exactly E) more than; less than The figure above shows an economy aggregate demand curve and aggregate supply curves.

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The above table shows a firm's

A) long-run costs. B) short-run costs. C) short-run and long-run costs. D) More information is needed to determine if the costs are long-run costs or short-run costs.

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