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question 29

Multiple Choice

Use the information for the question(s) below.
Your firm faces an 8% chance of a potential loss of $50 million next year. If your firm implements new safety policies, it can reduce the chance of this loss to 3%, but the new safety policies have an upfront cost of $250,000. Suppose that the beta of the loss is 0 and the risk-free rate of interest is 5%.
-An operator of an oil well has a 0.5% chance of experiencing a catastrophic failure. This failure will cost the operator $500 million. If the risk-free rate is 2%, the expected return on the market is 8%, and the beta of the risk is -1.2, what is the actuarially fair insurance premium?

• A)$2,500,000
• B) $2,637,131
• C)$2,550,000
• D)$2,753,304

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Definitions:

Marginal Productivity

The additional output that can be produced by adding one more unit of a specific input, keeping all other inputs constant.

Fixity

In economics, refers to the inelasticity or immobility of certain factors, like land or capital, which can limit responsiveness to changes in market conditions.

Long Run

A period of time sufficient for all adjustments to be made in an economy or market, considering all possible changes in production.

Average Costs

The total cost of production divided by the number of units produced, used to determine the average expense per unit.