How can a corporation's board of directors and its managers try to reduce the principal-agent problem?
What will be an ideal response?
A corporation's board of directors can try to reduce the principal-agent problem by designing compensation policies for top managers that give them financial incentives to increase profits. A corporation's managers can try to reduce the principal-agent problem by designing compensation policies that give workers an incentive to work harder.
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A minimum wage policy is an example of a ________
A) price ceiling B) price floor C) positive externality D) negative externality
There are three goods you are interested in purchasing, X, Y and Z. You notice that the price of Z has fallen. Given that the cross price elasticity between Z and Y is ?1.5; the cross price elasticity between Y and X is 3.0, and the cross price elasticity between Z and X is 0.50 . It would make sense that:
a. Z and X are complements; Y and X are substitutes. b. Y and X are substitutes; Y is complementary to Z. c. X and Z are unrelated; Y is complementary to X. d. X and Z are complements; Y and Z are substitutes.
The future of the U.S as leader of the economic world:
a. is likely to continue for generations to come b. will be sustained in the next generation, but not beyond c. requires U.S. action in several critical economic areas d. requires a return of manufacturing to the U.S.
The equilibrium wage rate in an industry is found by
A) the intersection of the market demand curve for labor and the marginal revenue product curve of labor. B) the intersection of the firm's demand curve for labor and the firm's supply curve of labor. C) the intersection of the market demand curve for labor and the market supply curve of labor. D) negotiations between the union leadership and the managers of the firms.