Suppose that a firm's legal staff concludes that a new product that the firm is developing is patentable. Graphically, this new information would shift the firm's expected-rate-of-return curve on R&D to the
A) right and reduce its optimal amount of R&D.
B) right and increase its optimal amount of R&D.
C) left and increase its optimal amount of R&D.
D) left and reduce its optimal amount of R&D.
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A)decrease the expected rate
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