Suppose that a city's energy demand is 30 megawatts during off-peak times and 40 megawatts at its peak. The city has been purchasing electricity from an outside company but has decided to build its own power plants to satisfy all of its energy demand. The city can choose to build one or more plants to generate the needed electricity. There are three types of plant: coal, natural gas, and hydroelectric. The three types of plants face the costs appearing in the table. Assuming the city's power needs will not change in the foreseeable future, to achieve the lowest cost of power generation, the city should build:
A. two coal-fired plants.
B. two natural gas plants.
C. one coal-fired and one hydroelectric plant.
D. four hydroelectric plants.
C. one coal-fired and one hydroelectric plant.
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The too-big-to-fail policy
A) reduces moral hazard problems. B) puts large banks at a competitive disadvantage in attracting large deposits. C) treats large depositors of small banks inequitably when compared to depositors of large banks. D) allows small banks to take on more risk than large banks.
Explain why risk can be insured against but uncertainty cannot
What will be an ideal response?
The managers of Movies Plus, a large movie theater, want to practice third-degree price discrimination. The managers have learned that college students have an own price elasticity of demand of 1.75 for tickets at Movies Plus and adults have an own price elasticity of 1.25. If the managers have correctly determined the third-degree profit-maximizing price for adults is $20, what is the
third-degree profit-maximizing price to charge students? A) $12.50 B) $9.33 C) $15.67 D) $18.25
Compared to England, the 19th century American manufacturing labor force was:
a. less likely to unionize. b. less mobile. c. less accepting of technological change in the workplace. d. less productive.