Your Instructor Has Organized the Class into Groups of Three

question 114

Multiple Choice

Your instructor has organized the class into groups of three students each and assigned each group a research project on different aspects of the workings of Congress.Regardless of the individual contributions of each member of the group, all three students of each group will receive the same grade based on the quality of the project.After numerous attempts to organize the group to work on the project, you realize the third student in your group will not participate.Instead, you and the second student get together to finish the project because both of you are very concerned about your final grade in the class.However, you are both angry that the third student is going to benefit from your hard work without contributing.Had the instructor told each group that each student's grade on the project would be based on his or her individual contribution, which problem would the instructor have avoided?

• A)a delegation problem
• B)an empirical problem
• C)a normative problem
• D)a free-rider problem
• E)a principal-agent problem

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