Expansionary fiscal policy should raise the exchange rate of the dollar

When a firm is considered to be a "price taker" that means that the firm

A) can charge any price that it wants to charge, that is, "take" any price it wants. B) pays a fixed price for all of its inputs. C) will accept ("take") the lowest price that its customers offer. D) cannot influence the market price of the good that it sells.

A potential drawback of using the standard deviation to measure risk is that

A) positive and negative deviations from the mean cancel each other out. B) both positive and negative deviations are included to compute deviations around the mean. C) the probability distribution of returns is symmetrical. D) None of the above.