What Impedes Firms from Achieving the Optimal Dispersion of Their

question 88

Multiple Choice

What impedes firms from achieving the optimal dispersion of their productive activities to locations around the globe?

• A) transportation costs
• B) government deregulations
• C) reduction of barriers to trade between countries
• D) reduction of barriers to foreign direct investment

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Definitions:

Standard Normal

A normal distribution with a mean of zero and a standard deviation of one, commonly used in probability theory and statistics.

Random Variable

A variable whose values are outcomes of a random phenomenon and are subject to variability, characterized by a distribution.

Normal Distribution

A distribution of probabilities that is evenly spread about the mean, indicating that occurrences close to the mean are more common than those further away.

Standard Deviation

A statistic that measures the dispersion or variability of a data set relative to its mean.