The amount of checkable deposits that banks are required by regulation to hold are the

A) excess reserves.
B) required reserves.
C) vault cash.
D) total reserves.

B

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i. It converts consumer surplus to economic profit. ii. A price discriminator must be a monopoly. iii. To be able to price discriminate, the firm must be able to identify different types of buyers. A) i and ii B) i and iii C) ii and iii D) ii only E) i, ii, and iii

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Suppose that you have wheat in storage and that the price of wheat is currently $5.00 per bushel. You can sell your wheat immediately but you also have an opportunity to sell in six months. At that time, you believe the price of wheat will be $5.60 per bushel. Your cost of storage is $0.75 per bushel for six months. One dollar in six months is worth one dollar today (no discounting). What strategy is profit maximizing?

A. Hold onto your wheat and sell in six months. B. Sell your wheat today. C. Minimize your losses by exiting the wheat market. D. Expand production to sell more wheat.

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