Asymmetric Information

A. people are rational maximizers
B. People are reluctant to change their minds
C. People are inconsistent over time
D. People care about fairness

A. people give too much weight to a small number of vivid observations
B. People are sometimes too sure of their own abilities
C. All of these answers are actually true statements about how people make decisions.
D. People are always rational maximizers
E. People are reluctant to change their minds in the face of new information

A. Rs20,000; Rs20,000; Rs22,000
B. Rs1,000; Rs14,333; Rs1,000
C. Rs20,000; Rs13,100; Rs1,000
D. Rs1,000; Rs20,000; Rs22,000

A. Josephine doesn’t buy health insurance because it is too expensive, and she is healthy
B. A life insurance company forces Enzo to have a medical examination prior to selling him insurance
C. Enzo drives more recklessly after he buys car insurance
D. Fatima chooses to attend a well-respected college

A. It must be “as seen on TV”
B. It must be free to the signaling party
C. It must be costly to the signaling party but less costly to the party with higher-quality product
D. It must be applied to an inexpensive product

A. screening
B. signaling
C. moral hazard
D. adverse selection

A. all of these answers
B. forced contributions to a retirement plan
C. year-end bonuses
D. efficiency wages

A. People give too much weight to a small number of vivid observations
B. People easily change their minds when confronted with new information
C. People enjoy going to the doctor
D. People tend to plan ahead and follow through on their plans

A. There is no rational solution
B. 75/25
C. 99/1
D. 1/99
E. 50/50

A. The average preferred outcome wins
B. There is no clear winner due to Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem.
C. The outcome preferred by the median voter wins
D. The outcome preferred by the greatest number of voters wins.