The Clayton Act of 1914:.a. outlawed price discrimination, tying contracts, acquisition of stocks of competing corporations, and interlocking directorates that lessen competition. b. prohibited unfair or deceptive acts or practices in commerce that tend to reduce competition. c. outlawed vertical and conglomerate mergers. d. prohibited one firm from acquiring the assets of another when the effect was to limit competition.

Pressure systems, inc., manufactures high-accuracy liquid-level transducers. it is investigating whether it should update certain equipment now or wait to do it later. if the cost now is $200,000, what will the equivalent amount be 3 years from now at an interest rate of 10% per year?

Afinancial institution, the thriftem bank, is in the process of formulating its loan policy for the next quarter. a total of $12 million is allocated for that purpose. being a full-service facility, the bank is obligated to grant loans to different clientele. the following table provides the types of loans, the interest rate charged by the bank, and the possibility of bad debt as estimated from past experience. type of loaninterest rateprobability of bad debtpersonal.140.10car.130.07home.1 20.03farm.125.05commercial.100.02 bad debts are assumed unrecoverable and hence produce no interest revenue either. competition with other financial institutions in the area requires that the bank allocate at least 40% of the total funds to farm and commercial loans. to assist the housing industry in the region, home loans must equal at least 50% of the personal, car, and home loans. the bank also has a stated policy specifying that the overall ratio for bad debts on all loans may not exceed .04. formulate this problem as a linear program. define your variables clearly and write all the constraints explaining the significance of each.

Aprice control is: question 1 options: a)a tax on the sale of a good that controls the market price. b)an upper limit on the quantity of some good that can be bought or sold. c)a legal restriction on how high or low a price in a market may go. d)control of the price of a good by the firm that produces it.