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By next year, the stock you own has a 25% chance of being worth $400 and a 75% probability of being worth $200. What are the expected value and the variance?
Draw a person's utility curve and illustrate that the person is risk averse with respect to a loss but risk preferring with respect to a gain.
which are the product of the fine or the sentence if convicted and the probability of being caught and convicted.
Show how such aid affects a risk-averse individual's decision about whether to buy insurance.
What is the effect of a slotting fee on the manufacturer's wholesale price, the final price in the store, the number of units sold, and the two firms' profits?
Use a decision tree to illustrate the analysis that a farmer in this situation needs to do.
Explain why either method can be used to discourage speeding. Which approach is a government likely to prefer, and why?
In a neighborhood with 1,000 houses, 5 catch fire, 7 are damaged by high winds. What is the probability that a house is harmed by fire or high winds?
If the painting is not destroyed and the artist does not become famous, it will be worth $500. What is the expected value of the painting?
If you plan to keep the car until it falls apart (at least a decade) and the interest rate is 10%, which approach has a lower present value of costs?
How much money do you have to put into a bank account that pays 10% interest compounded annually to receive annual payments of $200 forever?
Alexx invests directly and earns 5% a year. Spenser uses a retirement fund and earns 4.75%. After 30 years, how much more will Alexx have than Spenser?
If you buy a car for $100 down and $100 a year for two more years, what is the present value of these payments at a 5% rate of interest?
What is the present value of $100 paid a year from now and another $100 paid two years from now if the interest rate is i?
If Dell can earn an annual interest rate of 4%, what is this float worth to Dell per dollar spent on inputs?
What is the present value of a stream of payments of f per year for t years that starts T years from now if the interest rate is i?
For what frequency of compounding? If you wish, you may also discuss how good an investment you think this site provides.
Compare and contrast the U.S. health care delivery system relative to spending per capita and ranking of healthcare outcomes with the health care system.
Using the midpoint method (show your work), calculate the price elasticity of demand when the price of barrel of gosum berries rises from $10 to $20.
What is the current price of ordinary / common shares in AMP and CBA? How has each evolved over the past 5-years? Graph each series and discuss their evolution.
Explain the impact on the following: The equilibrium quantity and price of oranges in the US.
Use a formal model (such as graphs) to show what effect such an increase has if the firm is competitive or the firm is a monopoly.
What effect does a price support have on a monopsony? In particular, describe the equilibrium if the price support is set at the price.
What happens to the monopsony equilibrium if the minimum wage is set slightly above or below the competitive wage?
What price does it charge in the output market? What price does it pay to its suppliers?