A) Panel A
B) Panel B
C) Panel C
D) Panel D
B) Panel B
C) Panel C
D) Panel D
Suppose an insurance company has estimated that 20 percent of all of its potential policy owners are high-cost and sets a price for their insurance policy with the understanding that 20 percent of its policy owners will be high-cost. If the true percentage of high-cost potential policy owners is 40 percent, the insurance company is likely to face ________.
A) moral hazard
B) the principal-agent problem
C) adverse selection
D) the bad apple problem
C) adverse selection
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