The short-run aggregate supply curve is upsloping because higher price levels lower interest rates and encourage firms to invest and produce more create incentives to expand output when resource prices are unresponsive to price-level changes encourage importation of foreign goods create an expectation among producers of still higher price levels

Coca-cola was primarily known for its core competencies in marketing, bottling, and distributing aerated drinks. however, with the success of gatorade, coca-cola developed competencies in the development and marketing of its own sports drink, powerade. which of the following is true of coca-cola? a. it is leveraging existing core competencies to improve current market position. b. it is building new core competencies to protect and extend its current market position. c. it is redeploying and recombining existing core competencies to compete in markets of the future. d. it is targeting the chasm between the early adopter and early majority market segment.