When New Professors Are Hired, Their Job Performance Is Monitored

question 149

Multiple Choice

When new professors are hired, their job performance is monitored closely. If they meet their institution's standards, they will eventually receive tenure. After receiving tenure, professors' job performance is less closely monitored, and they become difficult to fire. Tenure thus creates

• A)adverse selection.
• B)a Condorcet paradox.
• C)a screening problem.
• D)a moral hazard problem.

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Definitions:

Aggregate Quantity

The total amount or sum of goods and services produced or supplied in an economy at a given overall price level during a specific time period.

Aggregate Demand

The total demand for all goods and services within an economy at different price levels, during a specified time period.

Investment Spending

The expenditure on capital goods including buildings, machinery, and equipment, which are used to produce goods and services in the future.

Aggregate Supply Curve

A graph that shows the relationship between the overall price level in the economy and the total output (GDP) that firms produce and sell, at all possible price levels.