A small indigenous village is situated along the banks of a river. For this year, they need to decide how much water to collect from the river for irrigation purposes. The amount of water that is collected this year has no bearing on the amount of water that they can collect in future years from the river. Marginal Social Benefits from the water are given by: MSB = 20-q/2. Marginal Social Costs from collecting the water are given by: MSC = 2 + q.

Which of the following mechanisms would be most likely to motivate managers to act in the best interests of shareholders? a) decrease the use of restrictive covenants in bond agreements, b) take actions that reduce the possibility of a hostile takeover, c) elect a board of directors that allows managers greater freedom of action, d) increase the proportion of executive compensation that comes from stock options and reduce the proportion that is paid as cash salaries, e) eliminate a requirement that members of the board directors have a substantial investment in the firm's stocks

In order to gauge public opinion about how to handle iran's growing nuclear program, a research group surveyed 1010 americans by telephone and asked them to rate the threat iran's nuclear program poses to the world on a scale of 1 to 10. describe the population, sample, population parameters, and sample statistics. identify the population in the given problem. choose the correct answer below.

If you were running a company, what are at least two things you could do to improve its productivity.