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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%.
-Farmville Industries is a major agricultural firm and is concerned about the possibility of drought impacting corn production over the next year. In the event of a drought, Farmville Industries anticipates a loss of $75 million. Suppose the likelihood of a drought is 10% per year, and the beta associated with such a loss is 0.4. If the risk-free interest rate is 5% and the expected return on the market is 10%, then what is the actuarially fair insurance premium?

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