In the aftermath of a worldwide stock-market crash, Country T claimed that the severity of the stock-market crash it experienced resulted from the accelerated process of denationalization many of its industries underwent shortly before the crash.

Which of the following, if it could be carried out, would be most useful in an evaluation of Country T's assessment of the causes of the severity of its stock-market crash?

• Acalculating the average loss experienced by individual traders in Country T during the crash  
• Busing economic theory to predict the most likely date of the next crash in Country T  
• Ccomparing the total number of shares sold during the worst days of the crash in Country T to the total number of shares sold in Country T just prior to the crash  
• Dcomparing the severity of the crash in Country T to the severity of the crash in countries otherwise economically similar to Country T that have not experienced recent denationalization  
• Ecomparing the long-term effects of the crash on the purchasing power of the currency of Country T to the immediate, more severe short-term effects of the crash on the purchasing power of the currency of Country T