How does insurance reduce risk?
What will be an ideal response?
Insurance reduces the risk any individual faces because insurance pools risks. Everyone pays into the pool but only the small fraction of people who suffer a loss are paid from the pool. Essentially people reduce the risk of a large adverse financial outcome in exchange for the small, certain payment to the insurance company.
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Free trade
A) helps economic growth by increasing tariffs. B) hurts economic growth because foreigners are not bound by the same patent laws as we are. C) helps economic growth by encouraging the sharing of technology and industrial ideas. D) hurts economic growth because foreign countries can produce goods with lower labor costs.
A firm's isoquant shows
a. the amount of labor needed to produce a given level of output with capital held constant. b. the amount of capital needed to produce a given level of output with labor held constant. c. the various combinations of capital and labor that will produce a given amount of output. d. None of the above.