What Sign Does Ross Find for the Coefficient on His

question 24

Multiple Choice

What sign does Ross find for the coefficient on his primary explanatory variable (oil) ? See Table 3, column 1, on page 341 of the article.

• A) positive
• B) negative
• C) neither positive nor negative

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