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1 Patents may be granted in order to seek to avoid which market problem?

 

   

price fixing

   

free riders

   

moral hazard

   

collusion

   

natural monopolies

2

The US financial industry has exploited the lack of knowledge by consumers in order to greatly expand its profits.  But when it famously failed, that same public had to come to its rescue.  This is an example of

   

Effective Discrimination

   

the free rider problem

   

antitrust enforcement failure

   

moral hazard

   

collusion

3

Which of the following is true of an industry’s Herfindahl-Hirschmann Index (HHI)?

   

 

A low score indicates a monopolistic market

 

   

 

It is used to determine the amount of collusion in an industry

 

   

 

It measures the amount of government involvement in an industry

 

   

 

A high score indicates an oligopolistic market structure

 

   

 

Higher scores indicate increasing power of labor over wages

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