Explain Why Investors Receive Exactly What They Pay for in a Totally

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Essay

Explain why investors receive exactly what they pay for in a totally efficient market.

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Definitions:

Marginal Social Benefit

The additional benefit to society from the production or consumption of one more unit of a good.

Immunize

To provide protection against a disease through vaccination or to safeguard an investment against interest rate fluctuations.

Government Intervention

Actions taken by a government to affect the economy, which can include regulations, subsidies, tariffs, and direct provision of goods and services.

Marginal External Benefit

Increased benefit that accrues to other parties as a firm increases output by one unit.