The proposed merger between Staples and Office Depot and the FTC's opposition to it underscore the importance of how a market is defined when assessing the amount of market power possessed by an individual firm

Suppose, at a given federal funds rate, there is an excess demand for reserves in the federal funds market

If the Fed wants the federal funds rate to stay at that level, then it should undertake an open market ________ of bonds, everything else held constant. If the Fed does nothing, however, the federal funds rate will ________. A) sale; increase B) purchase; increase C) sale; decrease D) purchase; decrease

List the four broad categories of factors of production

What will be an ideal response?