How are start-up costs related to natural monopolies?

a.) high start-up costs prevent others from offering the same service in a natural monopoly.
b.) low start-up costs make it easy for companies to have a natural monopoly.
c.) natural monopolies are held by companies that cannot pay for start-up costs.
d.) the government offers companies money for start-up costs to prevent natural monopolies.

Licensing is perhaps the easiest method of entering into international trade. another method of entering international trade, which can be relatively low risk, is which opens several levels of involvement to company

Tara incorporates her sole proprietorship, transferring it to newly formed black corporation. the assets transferred have an adjusted basis of $240,000 and a fair market value of $300,000. also transferred was $10,000 in liabilities, $1,000 of which was personal and the balance of $9,000 being business related. in return for these transfers, tara receives all of the stock in black corporation. a. black corporation has a basis of $241,000 in the property. b. black corporation has a basis of $240,000 in the property. c. tara’s basis in the black corporation stock is $241,000. d. tara’s basis in the black corporation stock is $249,000. e. none of the above.

Advertisers are usually very conscious of their audience. choose an issue of a popular magazine such as time, sports illustrated, vanity fair, rolling stone, or the like. from that issue select three advertisements to analyze. try to determine the audience being appealed to in each advertisement and analyze the appeals used to persuade buyers. how might the appeals differ is the ads were designed to persuade a different audience.