Why Would a Bank Not Be Interested in a Study

question 19

Multiple Choice

Why would a bank not be interested in a study that would tell them which of their male customers have a poor self-concept and tend to be introverted?

• A)resources for the study are lacking
• B)the research results would not be useful
• C)the managerial decision has already been made
• D)decision-making information already exists
• E)none of the above

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Definitions:

Stock Volatilities

The degree of variation of a trading price series over time, often used to gauge the risk of a security.

Negative Correlation

A relationship between two variables where one variable increases as the other decreases, and vice versa.

Systematic Correlation

The relationship between the return of an asset and the return of the market as a whole, often used in the context of financial risk.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, commonly used in finance to measure the volatility of an investment's return.