Answer:
Entrepreneurial Ventures. ... Small businesses usually deal with known and established products and services, while entrepreneurial ventures focus on new, innovative offerings. Because of this, small business owners tend to deal with known risks and entrepreneurs face unknown risks.
Answer: a) a commitment to the owner and are standardized.
Explanation:
Futures are generally traded through Exchanges as opposed to Forwards which are not.
Futures are a commitment to the owner to buy or sell an underlying asset and as they are sold at Exchanges, they are standardized to allow for easier trading. The prices that the sellers are to get are certain as the Exchange protects the transaction.
Unlike Forwards that can be tailor made to the specifications of the owner, Futures come as already made and standardized and so are not tailor made. This is to enable as many participants as possible.
This is why option A is correct because Futures contain a commitment to the owner and are standadized as well.
Answer:
There are at least 2 opportunity costs associated with of letting your colleague have another month:
- if you invested in the oil-well venture, you could have earned $5,100 x 36% = $1,836 in one year
- if you invested in the new IT stock, you could have earned $5,100 x 48% = $2,448 in one year
You could invest in one of these options, or divide your money and invest in both options, e.g. invest $2,000 in the oil company and $3,000 in the IT company. Each different investment proportion results in a different opportunity cost.
Explanation:
Opportunity costs are the benefits lost or extra costs associated to carrying out an investment or activity instead of another alternative. Sometimes you might have several opportunity costs for one investment, e.g. invest in the IT company which is risky, invest in corporate bonds which is less risky or invest in US securities which is a safe investment.
Answer:B. if transaction costs are low, private bargaining will result in an efficient solution to the problem of externalities.
Explanation:
The coarse theorem:
If there is a conflict between parties this will lead to an effecient results irrespective of who won the right to the property as long as the transaction cost related to the price negotiation is insignificant.
