When a Free Market for a Good Reaches Equilibrium, Anyone

question 223

True/False

When a free market for a good reaches equilibrium, anyone who is willing and able to sell at the market price can sell the good.

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Definitions:

Plowback Ratio

The proportion of earnings retained by a business, rather than distributed to its shareholders as dividends, to reinvest in the core business or to pay debt.

Dividend Policy Decision

The strategy that a company uses to determine the size and timing of its dividends payments to shareholders.

Capital Intensity Ratio

A financial metric that measures the amount of capital needed per dollar of revenue; used to evaluate the investment intensity of a business's operations.

Fixed Asset Turnover Ratio

A financial metric that measures how efficiently a company uses its fixed assets to generate sales, calculated by dividing net sales by average fixed assets.