Under a "cost-plus" system of hospital reimbursement, hospitals have the incentive to _____
a. minimize expenditures
b. purchase the most recent high-tech equipment
c. release patients early
d. shift away from more expensive surgeries
b
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Since Germany is a large open economy, the increase in German borrowing and investment in what was formerly East Germany in the early 1990s resulted in
A) a decline in the world real interest rate. B) a shift to the right in the German supply of loanable funds curve. C) an increase in the real interest rate in the United States. D) a shift to the left in the German demand for loanable funds curve.
The difference between the interest rate on loans to households and firms and the interest rate on completely safe assets is known as ________
A) the fed funds rate B) the discount rate C) asymmetric information D) the credit spread