In comparing accounting profit with economic profit, we generally find that

A. economic profit and accounting profit are the same in the short run.
B. accounting profit is less than economic profit.
C. accounting profit is greater than economic profit.
D. economic profit exceeds accounting profit by the amount of opportunity costs.

Uestion 7 you hold a portfolio consisting of a $5,000 investment in each of 20 different stocks. the portfolio beta is equal to 1.12. you have decided to sell a coal mining stock (b = 1.00) at $5,000 net and use the proceeds to buy a like amount of a mineral rights company stock (b = 2.00). what is the new beta of the portfolio?

The federal reserve's organization while all members of the federal reserve board of governors vote at federal open market committee (fomc) meetings, only of the regional bank presidents are members of the fomc. the federal reserve's role as a lender of last resort involves lending to which of the following financially troubled institutions? u. s. banks that cannot borrow elsewhere governments in developing countries during currency crises u. s. state governments when they run short on tax revenues the federal reserve's primary tool for changing the money supply is . in order to decrease the number of dollars in the u. s. economy (the money supply), the federal reserve will government bonds.

The prebisch–singer hypothesis concludes that: a. technology lowers the cost of manufactured products, so developing countries should see an increase in their terms of trade. b. developing countries experience a long-run decline in their terms of trade, as the demand for primary products in higher-income countries declines relative to their demand for manufactured goods. c. because of unfair trading practices, labor in developing countries is exploited. d. opec has been responsible for a slowdown in the world's standard of living.