Prices That Do Not Always Adjust Rapidly to Maintain Equality

question 105

Multiple Choice

Prices that do not always adjust rapidly to maintain equality between quantity supplied and quantity demanded are known as:

• A) sticky prices.
• B) regulatory prices.
• C) fixed prices.
• D) market prices.

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