1. Financing decisions are less easily reversed than investment decisions.
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False
2. If markets are efficient in the semi-strong form, prices will reflect all historical price information.
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False
3. Psychologists have observed that people tend to place too much weight on older information.
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False
4. The random walk theory with its implication that stock price movements are like roulette outcomes, is a powerful indictment of our capital markets.
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False
5. The evidence that stocks of companies with unexpectedly high earnings offer high returns for several months after the announcement violates weak form market efficiency.
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False
6. In the United States most common shares are purchased by individuals.
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False
7. Net stock issues by U.S. nonfinancial corporations are in most years small and negative.
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False
8. Investments in partnerships cannot be publicly traded.
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False
9. Debt ratios in the U.S. have generally increased slightly over the past 50 years.
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False
10. A subordinated bond will generally be priced less than a secured bond.
True
False
11. Explain why a monopoly will rationally choose to produce less than the competitive solution.