"Regulatory Capture" Refers to the Situation Where a Government Agency

question 259

Multiple Choice

"Regulatory capture" refers to the situation where a government agency charged with supervising and regulating a particular industry is

• A)strongly influenced by the firms in the very industry that it is regulating.
• B)headed by bureaucrats who have a "lock" on their positions, without any rivals.
• C)completely dominating and controlling the actions of firms in the industry.
• D)headed by unelected government officials who have no strong desire to regulate.

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Definitions:

Variance

A measure of the dispersion of a set of data points around their mean value, indicating how spread out the data is.

Performance Differences

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Analysis of Variance

A statistical technique used to determine if there are any statistically significant differences between the means of three or more independent (unrelated) groups.