I guess the correct option is D.
The primary purpose of patents and copyrights is to encourage the expenditure of funds on research and development to create new products.
Answer:
C. I, II, III
Explanation:
In a period of falling interest rates, a bond dealer would engage in all of the following activities except for IV. Therefore, a dealer would raise his quoted price in Bloomberg. If the dealer has an appreciated bond that he wishes to sell, he can place ''Request for Bids'' for those bonds in Bloomberg. The dealer may buy bond the he has previously sold short to limit losses due to rising price. To protect existing short position against the rising price, the dealer will buy call options, not put options. Put options are used in protecting existing long position from falling price.
Answer:
The answer is: He needs the price of coffee to go down to convince him to buy more.
Explanation:
A demand curve (almost) always has a negative slope. As a product gets more expensive, the amount of people willing to buy that product decreases. So if the product gets cheaper, the more people are willing to purchase it.
The opposite happens with the supply curve, as the price of a product increases, the more companies are willing to sell that product.