Economists' Attempts to Explain the Term Structure of Interest Rates

question 62

Multiple Choice

Economists' attempts to explain the term structure of interest rates

• A)illustrate how economists modify theories to improve them when they are inconsistent with the empirical evidence.
• B)illustrate how economists continue to accept theories that fail to explain observed behavior of interest rate movements.
• C)prove that the real world is a special case that tends to get short shrift in theoretical models.
• D)have proved entirely unsatisfactory to date.

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