What Would Best Explain the Reluctance of General Motors to Eliminate

question 54

Multiple Choice

What would best explain the reluctance of General Motors to eliminate its dividend in
2008, only a few months before its financial collapse and eventual government takeover?

• A) Clientele effect
• B) Leftist theory
• C) Rightest theory
• D) Signaling hypothesis

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