An Increase in the Number of Suppliers in a Market

question 97

Multiple Choice

An increase in the number of suppliers in a market results in a

• A) movement up along the supply curve.
• B) rightward shift in the supply curve.
• C) leftward shift in the supply curve.
• D) Both answers A and C are correct.

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Definitions:

Efficient Capital Market

Market in which security prices reflect available information.

Security Prices

The cost or price of financial instruments such as stocks, bonds, and derivatives, determined by market supply and demand.

Compound Return

The process by which an investment grows over time as earnings from both the principal and the accumulated earnings from preceding periods.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, used in statistics and finance to assess the volatility of an investment.