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7-4 vocabulary jw
Question | Answer |
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A set of rules or laws designed to control business behavior | Regulation |
Defines monopolies and gives government the power to control them. | Antitrust legistration |
A group of firms combined in order to reduce competition in an industry. | Trust |
The joining of two firms to form a single firm. | merger |
Occurs when businesses agree to set prices for competing products. | Price fixing |
Occurs when competing businesses divid a market amongst themselves. | market allocation |
Occurs when businesses set prices below cost for a time to drive competitors out of a market | predatory pricing |
Requires a firm to stop an unfair business practice. | cease and desist order |
a policy that requires businesses to reveal product information | Public disclosure |
reduces or removes government control of business | deregulation |