If You Are Convinced That Stock Prices Are Impossible to Predict

question 35

Multiple Choice

If you are convinced that stock prices are impossible to predict from available information,then you probably also believe that

• A)the efficient markets hypothesis is not a correct hypothesis.
• B)the stock market is informationally efficient.
• C)the stock market is informationally inefficient.
• D)there is no reason to establish a diversified portfolio of stocks.

Understand the concept of monopoly and the conditions that enable a firm to exert monopoly power.

Learn how monopoly power is measured, including the use of the Lerner Index.

Analyze how the elasticity of demand influences profit-maximizing pricing strategies.

Understand the implications of constant marginal cost on pricing and production decisions.

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