Because of the Adverse Selection Problem

question 19

Multiple Choice

Because of the adverse selection problem

• A)good credit risks are more likely to seek loans causing lenders to make a disproportionate amount of loans to good credit risks.
• B)lenders may refuse loans to individuals with high net worth,because of their greater proclivity to "skip town."
• C)lenders are reluctant to make loans that are not secured by collateral.
• D)lenders will write debt contracts that restrict certain activities of borrowers.

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Definitions:

Explanatory Variable

A variable in a statistical model that is believed to cause or influence the response variable.

Indicator Variable

A binary variable that takes the value of 0 or 1 to indicate the absence or presence of some categorical effect that may be expected to shift the outcome.

Logistic Regression

A statistical method used for binary classification that estimates the probability of a binary response based on one or more predictor variables.

Binomial Probability

The probability of obtaining a fixed number of successful outcomes in a fixed number of trials, each with the same probability of success.