Compared to a command and control government approach to reducing pollution, a market-based system of tradable pollution allowances is:

a. more efficient because polluters that can only reduce pollution at high cost do not and instead buy allowances.

b. less efficient because pollution allowances are "licenses to pollute."

c. more efficient because the bulk of the pollution reduction is carried out by those who pollute the most.

d. less efficient because polluters are not required to reduce pollution by the same amount.

e. more efficient because polluters have the same cost of reducing pollution.

You have $22,000 to invest in a stock portfolio. your choices are stock x with an expected return of 11 percent and stock y with an expected return of 13 percent. if your goal is to create a portfolio with an expected return of 11.74 percent, how much money will you invest in stock x? in stock y?

Dahlia enterprises needs someone to supply it with 127,000 cartons of machine screws per year to support its manufacturing needs over the next five years, and you’ve decided to bid on the contract. it will cost you $940,000 to install the equipment necessary to start production; you’ll depreciate this cost straight-line to zero over the project’s life. you estimate that in five years, this equipment can be salvaged for $77,000. your fixed production costs will be $332,000 per year, and your variable production costs should be $11.00 per carton. you also need an initial investment in net working capital of $82,000. if your tax rate is 30 percent and your required return is 11 percent on your investment, what bid price should you submit? (do not round intermediate calculations and round your final answer to 2 decimal places. (e. g., 32.16))

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