You are trying to decide whether to buy stock in company x or company y. both companies need $1,000 capital investment and will earn $200 in good years (with probability 0.5) and $60 in bad years. the only difference between the companies is that company x is planning to raise all of the $1,000 needed by issuing equity while company y plans to finance $500 through equity and $500 through bonds on which 10 percent interest must be paid. construct a table showing the expected value and standard deviation of the equity return for each of the companies.

4. suppose that pollution in a neighborhood comes from two factories, with marginal benefit curves given by mb1 = 12 – p1 and mb2 = 8 – p2. the level of pollution in the neighborhood is given by p = p1 + p2. the government wants to limit pollution by instituting a pollution-rights market. the government’s desired level of p is 10, so it prints 10 pollution rights and offers them for sale to the firms. a)find the equilibrium selling price of a pollution right, as well as the allocation of rights (and hence pollution levels) across the two factories. b)repeat part (a) for the case where the government’s desired level of pollution equals 14. c)comment on the usefulness of a pollution rights market in achieving efficient levels of pollution abatement.

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Robert owns a life insurance policy that he purchased when he first graduated college. it has a $100,000 death benefit and robert pays premiums for it every month out of his checking account. the insurance robert has is most likely da. permanent life insurance o b. term life insurance o c. group life insurance o d. individual life insurance