Suppose that Zimbabwe has recently experienced an increase in its growth rate, although the total quantity of inputs in the country has remained unchanged. This growth may have been caused by Choose one or more: A. a random increase in demand. B. the implementation of laws to protect private property. C. a change in technology. D. a decrease in exports. E. an increase in imports

Cosmetic profits. sally is the executive vice president of big name cosmetics company. through important and material, nonpublic information, she learns that the company is soon going to purchase a smaller chain of stores. it is expected that stock in big name cosmetics will rise dramatically at that point. sally immediately buys a number of shares of her company's stock. she also tells her friend alice about the expected purchase of stores. alice wanted to purchase stock in the company but lacked the funds with which to do so. although she did not have the funds in bank a, alice decided to draw a check on bank a and deposit the check in bank b and then proceed to write a check on bank b to cover the purchase of the stock. she hoped that she would have sufficient funds to deposit before the check was presented for payment. of which of the following offenses, if any, is alice guilty of by buying stock?

Adrawback of short-term contracting as an alternative to making a component in-house is thata. it is the most-integrated alternative to performing an activity so the principal company has no control over the agent. b. the supplying firm has no incentive to make any transaction-specific investments to increase performance or quality. c. it fails to allow a long planning period that individual market transactions provide. d. the buying firm cannot demand lower prices due to the lack of a competitive bidding process.

Digitalhealth electronics inc. is a company that builds diagnostic devices. it was the first company to develop a compact mri scanner by reconfiguring the components of the mri technology. this smaller and user-friendly version of the huge mri scanner created demand from small hospitals, nursing homes, and private practice doctors who were earlier dependent on the scanning machines in large hospitals. which of the following types of innovations does this scenario best illustrate? a. disruptive innovation b. incremental innovation c. radical innovation d. architectural innovation