Andrew wants to increase the time that he studies each week and he writes a behavioral contract in which he will be the one to implement the contingencies. The contract states that he can go a a party on the weekend if he studies 15 hours during the week. Andrew studies for only 10 hours during the week, but still goes to a party on the weekend.

This is referred to as:

A. modifying the contingencies
B. short-circuiting the contingencies
C. consequence error
D. consequence delay

B. short-circuiting the contingencies

Explanation:

Andrew wants to increase the time that he studies each week and he writes a behavioral contract in which he will be the one to implement the contingencies. The contract states that he can go a a party on the weekend if he studies 15 hours during the week. Andrew studies for only 10 hours during the week, but still goes to a party on the weekend.

This is referred to as:  short-circuiting the contingencies

trade regulation is a field of law, often bracketed with antitrust (as in the phrase “antitrust and trade regulation law”), including government regulation of unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive business acts or practices. antitrust law is often considered a subset of trade regulation law. franchise and distribution law, consumer protection law, and advertising law are sometimes considered parts of trade regulation law.

in general the theory of economics says that the more open to trade a country is the better   the result for the same country and the whole economies.

in real life countries impose taxes, quotas, etc which is not so good for the economies.

this kind of commercial war between the usa and china is slowing down the growth of the whole world so we can say that it is a draw back of trade regulations. and the free trade agreements are benefits of trade regulations.

i am pretty sure it is d.