Insurance companies charge a lower premium to drivers who carry a higher deductible because
A) insurance companies are not profit maximizers.
B) a driver's riskiness decreases as the driver's deductible increases.
C) a high deductible signals a high risk.
D) insurance companies prefer that drivers carry no deductible.
B
You might also like to view...
A ten-year $1,000,000-face-value zero-coupon Treasury bond has a market price of __________ when the interest rate is 9.62%
A) $399,119 B) $674,844 C) $903,800 D) $962,000
What is the last dollar rule for cost-minimization? Provide a brief explanation (in words) as well as the corresponding mathematical equality
If the firm is producing at a point where the isocost line is steeper than the isoquant, what does the last dollar rule imply (i.e., where is the last dollar most productive, L or K) and how should the firm alter its capital and labor in the long run?
Assume that the government increases spending and finances the expenditures by borrowing in the domestic capital markets. If the nation has low mobility international capital markets and a flexible exchange rate system, what happens to the quantity of real loanable funds per time period and the nominal value of the domestic currency in the context of the Three-Sector-Model?
a. The quantity of real loanable funds per time period rises, and nominal value of the domestic currency falls. b. The quantity of real loanable funds per time period falls, and nominal value of the domestic currency rises. c. The quantity of real loanable funds per time period rises, and nominal value of the domestic currency remains the same. d. The quantity of real loanable funds per time period rises, and nominal value of the domestic currency rises. e. There is not enough information to determine what happens to these two macroeconomic variables.
A quota is
A. An elimination of trade to nurture an infant industry. B. A prohibition against trading a good. C. A limit on the quantity of a good that may be imported in a given time period. D. A tax imposed on imported goods.