Everything Else Held Constant,when Financial Frictions Increase,the Real Cost of Borrowing

question 99

Multiple Choice

Everything else held constant,when financial frictions increase,the real cost of borrowing ________ so that planned investment spending ________ at any given inflation rate.

• A)increases;falls
• B)decreases;falls
• C)decreases;rises
• D)increases;rises

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Definitions:

Hawthorne Experiment

A series of studies conducted in the 1920s and 1930s that examined the effects of work environment changes on employee productivity, leading to insights on the importance of social factors and employee attention.

Informal Organization

The network of personal and social relationships that naturally form within an organization, which can influence the formal structure.

Informal Organization

The network of personal and social relationships that form naturally within an organization outside of the formal structure.

Hawthorne Experiment

A series of studies on worker productivity that concluded social factors and employee attitudes could influence work output, conducted at the Hawthorne Works in the 1920s and 1930s.