Suppose an employer has monitoring devices established so that the probability of an employee being caught while shirking is 0.2. If the gain to the employee from shirking is $1,000, how large a bond will deter shirking?
What will be an ideal response?
B = 1000/0.2 = $5,000. With a $5,000 bond and a 20% chance of being caught, the employee's gain from shirking just equals the expected cost of shirking.
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A) horizontal. B) vertical. C) upward sloping. D) downward sloping. E) U-shaped, with higher inflation initially decreasing unemployment and then increasing it back to the natural unemployment rate.
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A) no-trade, domestic price is less than the world price B) no-trade, domestic price is equal to the world price. C) no-trade, domestic price is greater than the world price. D) no-trade, domestic quantity is less than the world quantity. E) no-trade, domestic quantity is greater than the world quantity.
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A) It would be too dangerous to allow citizens to keep and bear arms for the purpose of forming militias to defend their communities. B) Most people are patriotic only when the government is involved. C) "National defense" must by necessity be nationalized. D) People will not risk their lives unless government requires them to do so. E) Private providers could not exclude non-payers from the benefits.