What evidence exists that industrial concentration increases the rate of technologicaladvance?
What will be an ideal response?
Unlike small firms, most large firms engage in research and development. When research and development expenditures are considered as a percentage of sales, firms in industries with high concentration ratios spend more on research and development than firms in industries with low concentration ratios.
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student. What was one result from this experiment? A) Most allocators chose to give themselves $18 and $2 to the other students. B) A majority of the female allocators chose option (a); a majority of the male allocators chose option (b). C) Most of the allocators apparently valued acting fairly. D) Most of the students who were not allocators did not like having someone else make decisions for them.
Which firm is not dealing with adverse selection
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