Globalization has given U.S. consumers a wider variety of gourmet food products from which to choose and has lowered the prices of these products in general
This, in turn, has encouraged consumers to buy more gourmet food items, which has ________ the amount of cooperative surplus for the buyers and sellers of gourmet food products. A) increased
B) decreased
C) not changed
D) reduced to zero
A
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Because consumer loans are rather __________, they have been relatively __________ to securitize
A) standardized; easy B) standardized; difficult C) not standardized; easy D) not standardized; difficult
By law, employers in the United States may not ask prospective female employees whether they plan to have babies. The existence of this law seems most likely to
a. increase the probability that firms will practice economic discrimination against women. b. decrease the probability that firms will practice economic discrimination against women. c. increase the probability that firms will practice statistical discrimination against women. d. decrease the probability that firms will practice statistical discrimination against women.