Beginning in 1965, the head of the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice began to change antitrust policy. How did antitrust policy change?
A) For the first time horizontal mergers were allowedwith government approvaland vertical mergers were allowed without need for approval from the government.
B) For the first time concentration ratios were used to evaluate the degree of competition in the industries of firms that proposed mergers.
C) Proposed mergers no longer needed the approval of the Federal Trade Commission or the court system.
D) The Division began to systematically consider the economic consequences of proposed mergers.
Question 2
Daniel Hammermesh and Stephen Donald studied the determinants of the earnings of college graduates years after they graduated. Which of the following is one result of their study?
A) Students who took more Advanced Placement (AP) courses while still in high school earned significantly more income for each AP course they passed with a grade of 4 or 5.
B) Students who took at least three economics courses earned about 9 percent more income than students who took no college economics courses.
C) Students who had taken 15 credits of upper-division science and mathematics courses and earned high grades in these courses earned about 10 percent more than students who took no upper-division classes in these subjects.
D) The earnings of identical twins were about 9 percent higher than the earnings of all other students.