A key aspect of the principal-agent problem is that
A) the principal cannot perfectly monitor the agent's actions.
B) the principal can perfectly monitor the agent's actions.
C) the output level does not depend on the agent's actions.
D) the principal is always risk-averse.
A
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Suppose Sarah owns a small company that makes wedding cakes. The table below shows how Sarah's total cost varies depending on the number of wedding cakes she makes each day.Number ofCakes Per DayTotal CostPer Day0$1001$1802$2203$3004$4005$5206$660If the market for wedding cakes is perfectly competitive, and wedding cakes sell for $95 each, then Sarah should produce ________ cakes per day.
A. 6 B. 3 C. 5 D. 0
Which of the following will result in a decrease in a consumer's purchasing power?
A) A decrease in the consumer's income B) An increase in the price of the good on the vertical axis C) An increase in the price of the good on the horizontal axis D) all of the above
A single proprietorship is a form of business organization which:
a) has limited liability. b) has unlimited access to money capital. c) has a single owner but has directors who are responsible for the firm?s debts. d) has one owner-manager who is personally responsible for the firm?s actions and debts. e) allows easy transferability of ownership by the trading of shares.
The Gauss-Markov theorem will not hold if _____.
A. the error term has the same variance given any values of the explanatory variables B. the error term has an expected value of zero given any values of the independent variables C. the independent variables have exact linear relationships among them D. the regression model relies on the method of random sampling for collection of data