Which of the Following Statements Is False

question 86

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is false?

• A) The risk premium of a security is equal to the market risk premium (the amount by which the market's expected return exceeds the risk-free rate), divided by the amount of market risk present in the security's returns measured by its beta with the market.
• B) We refer to the beta of a security with the market portfolio simply as the security's beta.
• C) There is a linear relationship between a stock's beta and its expected return.
• D) A security with a negative beta has a negative correlation with the market, which means that this security tends to perform well when the rest of the market is doing poorly.

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Definitions:

Labor Demand Curve

A downward-sloping curve that represents how the quantity of labor demanded by employers changes as the wage rate changes.

Purely Competitive

Purely competitive markets are those in which numerous small firms compete against each other, and the price of goods or services is determined by the market with no single participant having significant control over it.

Imperfectly Competitive

Describes markets where individual sellers have some control over the prices due to lack of perfect competition, includes monopolistic competition, oligopoly, and monopoly markets.

Perfectly Competitive Market

A theoretical market structure characterized by many buyers and sellers, free entry and exit, and a homogeneous product, leading to an efficient allocation of resources.