Mel is thinking of going on a cruise. Mel values a cruise in nice weather at $2,000 and values a cruise in bad weather at $50. The probability of nice weather is 60 percent and the probability of bad weather is 40 percent. Trip insurance is sometimes available. If purchased, it allows travelers to delay the cruise until the weather is nice. Suppose that the price of the cruise is $1,200. If Mel is risk-neutral, then Mel should:
A. only buy trip insurance if it costs less than $20.
B. not buy trip insurance.
C. only buy trip insurance if it costs less than $780.
D. only buy trip insurance if it costs less than $50.
Answer: C
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A) restrictions on international labor mobility are common. B) labor is far more mobile internationally than capital. C) restrictions on international labor mobility are rare. D) labor is far more mobile internationally than it is intra-nationally. E) outsourcing increases international labor mobility.
A game in which any gains within the group are exactly offset by equal losses by the end of the game is a
A) positive-sum game. B) zero-sum game. C) strategy. D) negative-sum game.
If a firm wants to maximize profits it should
A) hire lots of capital and very little labor since labor needs to be trained. B) hire unskilled labor rather than skilled labor since unskilled labor is cheaper. C) equate the marginal physical product for each input to the price of the input. D) equate the marginal revenue product for each input to the price of the input.
The law of demand says that the lower the price of a good, other things constant,
a. the smaller the demand for that good b. the larger the demand for that good c. the smaller the quantity demanded of that good d. the larger the quantity demanded of that good e. the smaller the real income of consumers and the lower the quantity demanded of that good