What is the LEAST LIKELY way a firm can finance operations?

A) issue stocks
B) retain earnings from sales
C) increase dividends to investors
D) borrow money from financial institutions

Total marketing effort is a term used to describe the critical decision factors that affect demand: price, advertising, distribution, and product quality. define the variable x to represent total marketing effort. a typical model that is used to predict demand as a function of total marketing effort is based on the power function: d = axb suppose that a is a positive number. different model forms result from varying the constant b. sketch the graphs of this model for b = 0, b = 1, 0< b< 1, b< 0, and b> 1. (we encourage you to use excel to do this.) what does each model tell you about the relationship between demand and marketing effort? what assumptions are implied? are they reasonable? how would you go about selecting the appropriate model?

Tariffs and quotas are often imposed when a government is more responsive to interests, and the benefits of those trade restrictions are often ; concentrated producer; widely dispersed consumer; widely dispersed consumer; concentrated

Arguments made against free trade include all of the following exceptdumping is an unfair trade practice that puts domestic producers of substitute goods at a disadvantage that they should be protected against. national defense considerations justify producing certain goods domestically whether the country has a comparative advantage in their production or not. free trade is inflationary and should be restricted in the domestic interest. if foreign governments subsidize their exports, foreign firms that export are given an unfair advantage that domestic producers should be protected against. infant industries should be protected from free trade so that they may have time to develop and compete on an even basis with older, more established foreign industries.