True or False?
Vocabulary
Vocab pt. 2
Role of Government
Market Structures
100
Making, buying, or selling something that people need or want
What is economics?
100

What is the Federal Reserve System?

The Central bank of the U.S. is responsible for the country's monetary system. 

100

Increasing or decreasing the amount of money (using Monetary Policy)

What is Managing the Economy?

100

The Electric Company

What is a Monopoly?

200

Roles of the government in the economy are [Manages economy, Provides public goods and services, Provides legal framework, Promotes competition and Corrects for externalities.]

What is true?

200

What Are Antitrust laws?

Promote fair trade and competition among

businesses.

200

What is collusion?

When two or more businesses work together to remove their competition, set prices, and control distribution.

VERY Illegal.

200

Providing courts to settle contract disputes.

What is Creating a Legal Framework?

200

Family Restaurants

What is Monopolistic Competition?

300

A person's focus on one product or service

What is specialization?

300

What is Monetary policy?

Regulates the supply of money and interest rates

by a central bank in an economy.

300

Building roads and schools.

What is Provide Public Goods?

300

Cellphone Service Providers (AT&T, Verizon)

What is an Oligopoly?

400

Monetary policy is the activities involved in buying and selling goods on a large scale

What is false?

Correct Answer: Commerce

400

What is Price Fixing?

When two or more businesses in an industry agree

to sell the same good or service at a set price.

400

What is the definition of Money supply?

The total money circulating at any one time in a

country.

400

The Sherman Anti-Trust Act

What is Promote Competition?

400

Soybean farmers

What is Perfect Competition?

500

What is Fiscal policy?

The tax and spending decisions made by the

president and Congress.

500

What is Nonprice Competition? 

a competitive advantage based on factors other than price.

500

Environmental Protection Laws

What is Prevent Externalities?

500

Automobiles, Light Trucks and SUVs

What is Monopolistic Competition?

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