What would best explain why a generally risk-averse person would bet $100 during a night of blackjack in Las Vegas?
A) Risk aversion relates to income choices only, not expenditure choices.
B) Risk averse people may gamble under some circumstances.
C) The economics of gambling and the economics of income risk are two different things.
D) Risk-averse people attach high subjective probabilities to favorable outcomes, even when objective probabilities are known.
B
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Suppose the demand for peaches from South Carolina is perfectly elastic. If the supply curve is upward sloping and a tax is imposed on peaches from South Carolina, then
A) peach sellers pay all of the tax. B) peach buyers pay all of the tax. C) peach buyers and sellers evenly split the tax. D) the government does not collect any revenue from the tax. E) the tax does not change the equilibrium quantity of peaches.
Which of the following is an example of search costs?
A) Isabel knows that other neighbors' sleep patterns must also be affected by the howling dogs in her neighborhood and sets out to find those neighbors. B) Isabel is bound and determined to to find out which of her neighbors owns the howling dogs that are preventing her from getting a full night's slee