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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%.
-Assuming that your firm will purchase insurance,what is the minimum-size deductible that would leave your firm with an incentive to implement the new safety policies?

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Definitions:

Comparative Advantage

The ability of a country or company to produce a particular good or service at a lower opportunity cost than its competitors.

Producing

The process of creating goods or services through the combination of labor, materials, and technology.

Comparative Advantage

The ability of an individual or group to carry out a particular economic activity more efficiently than another activity, compared to another individual or group.

Constant Costs

Expenses that remain unchanged over a certain range of output or scale of operation.