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TRANSACTIONS DEPOSITS: A fancy, schmancy, official term for checkable deposits. This is the term typically used by the Federal Reserve System when they speak of checking accounts. The logic is that this are the accounts that are used to conduct transactions, that is, are used as money.

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Lesson 2: Economic Science | Unit 3: Verification Page: 12 of 20

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  • How an hypothesis is verified using real world data.
  • Ways to obtain data that can be used to test an hypothesis.
  • The importance of the ceteris paribus assumption that other factors remain unchanged when testing an hypothesis.
  • What it means to the scientific method when an hypothesis does and does not agree with real world data.
  • How continually testing an hypothesis that agrees with real world data eventually gives us a principle.
  • Why an hypothesis that does not agree with real world data can be just as valuable to the scientific method as one that does not.

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MONOPOLISTIC COMPETITION, DEMAND

The demand curve for the output produced by a monopolistically competitive firm is relatively elastic. The firm can sell a wide range of output within a relatively narrow range of prices. As a price maker, the firm has some ability (not much, but some) to control price. The demand curve is negatively sloped, but relatively elastic, because each firm produces a slightly differentiated product, but faces competition from a large number of very, very close substitutes.

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The Dow Jones family of stock market price indexes began with a simple average of 11 stock prices in 1884.
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