Evaluate whether the following statements are True, False, or Uncertain. Explain your answer. You MUST provide an explanation to receive ANY marks for these questions! Moral hazard is a term used to describe the phenomenon under which the uniformed side of a deal gets exactly the wrong people trading with it.
The above statement is False. As the phenomenon under which the uniform side of a deal gets exactly the wrong people trading with it is referred to as an Adverse Selection. For instance, banks are likely to lend to those individuals that are generating more interest income due to the risk involved in the venture.
Whereas, Moral hazard refers to a situation where one party changes their behavior after a deal is conducted. For instance, an individual borrows from a bank to buy a car/house. But due to the existence of asymmetric information, the uses the loan money for gambling rather than using it for pre-specified purposes.
Evaluate whether the following statements are True, False, or Uncertain. Explain your answer. You MUST provide...
Part A: True/False/Uncertain Questions Indicate whether each of the following statements is true, false or uncertain and explain why. Most of the marks depend on the quality of the explanation - unsupported answers will receive little or no marks. Each question is worth 5 marks for a total of 20 marks. (1) An increase in the tax rate has the same effect on the aggregate expenditure function as a decrease in government spending.
Indicate whether the following station is True, False, or Uncertain. Provide an explanation. [True/False/Uncertain] If fixed effects model and random effects model give very different estimates, then the estimate from the random effects model must be inconsistent.
Indicate whether you think the following statements are true, false or uncertain. Support your answer by giving all necessary reasoning and calculations: b) According to the quantity theory of money, “inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.”
True, False, Uncertain State whether each of the following statements is true, false or uncertain. Explain and support your answer. There is not necessarily one right answer to these questions. All the credit is in the explanation (but you must state T, F, or U). The full cost of medical school includes mainly tuition, room, and board for the school. Uncompensated care in the U.S. is entirely subsidized by government programs, namely Medicare and Medicaid. In a DRG payment system, hospitals receive payment...
Please indicate whether the following statements are True, False or Uncertain. Support your answer with an explanation (one to two sentences) or a diagram. If the benefits of a project exceed its cost, then realizing this project will be a Pareto improvement?
True, False or Uncertain (24 points). State whether the claims in these statements are true, false or ambiguous and explain why. You must provide an explanation to receive any credit. Drawing graphs and arrows only will yield minimum credit. a. “In the Mundell-Fleming (IS*-LM*) Model with fixed exchange rates, a contractionary monetary policy will have no effect on output in the long-run.” (8 points) b. ““Suppose that the equation for the Phillips curve is π = πe – 3(u -...
Short Questions Please indicate whether the following statements are True, False or Uncertain. Support your answer with an explanation (one to two sentences) or a diagram (75% of credit is based on your explanation!) 1. The government should only intervene in the economy when there are market failures. [2 marks 2. A utilitarian social welfare function implies that income redistribution from rich to poor will reduce social welfare. [2 marks] 3. A policy intervation will increase social welfare if and...
Evaluate ALL of the following statements as either TRUE, FALSE, or UNCERTAIN, and EXPLAIN your answers carefully. Each question is worth 10 marks, and each answer should be approximately one page long. Please illustrate your answers with diagrams and/or algebra when appropriate. 2. According to search and matching theory, an improvement in the efficiency of the matching process will decrease both unemployment and unfilled vacancies in the long run equilibrium.
1. True/False/Uncertain (30 marks) Answer each of the following statements True/False/Uncertain. Give a full explanation of your answer including graphs where appropriate. (When in doubt, always include a fully labeled graph.) A) As a general rule of thumb, the S-D model is appropriate for examining markets with many buyers, but few firms. B) Under standard assumptions, the S-D model shows that equilibrium only occurs on the inelastic portion of the demand curve. C) The principle of non-satiation is a standard...
Are the following statements true, false, or uncertain? Explain your answer (c) If there are no firms, only individuals trading with one another (an exchange economy), and everyone has the same marginal rate of substitution, then the allocation of resources is Pareto efficient. (d) Consider two social welfare functions, SWFA - U 2U2 and SWF min (Ui, U2)