Abstraction ignores many details in order to focus on the most important elements of a problem.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
True
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The Who-Needs-A-Doctor? Company makes a do-it-yourself rhinoplasty kit. The company is deciding whether to include a safety feature that would cost $40 for each kit
The company estimates the probability of death without the safety feature is 1/10,000 and the death cost per kit is $50. Based on this information, answer the following questions: a. What is the value the company has placed on a life? b. What is the company's cost-benefit recommendation? c. If the company has overestimated the probability of death and the true probability of death is 1/15,000, what is the true death cost per rhinoplasty kit? d. If the company has overestimated the probability of death and the true probability of death is 1/15,000, what would the true cost-benefit recommendation be for the company? e. If the company has correctly estimated the probability of death but has underestimated by one-half the true value of a life, what is the true death cost per rhinoplasty kit? f. If the company has correctly estimated the probability of death but has underestimated by one-half the true value of a life, what would the true cost-benefit recommendation be for the company?
Roger pays $20 per month to access unlimited movies on Netflix. In this scenario, the streaming of movies would best be classified as a: a. merit good
b. club good. c. public good. d. private good.
Suppose that the salary range for recent college graduates with a bachelor's degree in economics is $30,000 to $50,000, with 25 percent of jobs offering $30,000 per year, 50 percent offering $40,000 per year and 25 percent offering $50,000 per year and that in all other respects, the jobs are equally satisfying. Assume that in this market, a job offer remains open for only a short time so that continuing to search requires an applicant to reject any current job offer. Moe has just received a job offer that pays $40,000 per year. Moe should:
A. reject the offer if he is risk averse. B. only accept the offer if he is risk-neutral. C. reject the offer regardless of his preference for risk. D. accept the offer if he is risk averse.
Explain how bank regulators seem to face a bit of a paradox regarding preventing monopoly power by banks and spurring competition.
What will be an ideal response?