When Comparing Common Stock of the Same Company It Is

question 61

Multiple Choice

When comparing common stock of the same company it is fair to say that:

• A) all shares,no matter how many classes,are all created with the same equal rights.
• B) companies sometimes have two different classes of shares with unequal rights to dividends and votes.
• C) the securities commissions allow only one class of common stock.
• D) investors are indifferent between class A and class B shares.

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Definitions:

Proxy Variable

An auxiliary variable used in statistical analyses to represent an unobservable or difficult-to-measure variable.

Confounding Variable

A variable that influences both the dependent variable and independent variable, causing a spurious association.

Cleanliness

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External Validity

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