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- Janet’s broad attitude to risk (risk averse, risk neutral, or risk loving) is independent of her wealth. She has initial wealth ?w and is offered the opportunity to buy a lottery ticket. If she buys it, her final wealth will be either ?+4w+4 or ?−2w−2, each equally likely. She is indifferent between buying the ticket and not buying it. Janet offers her friend Sam (who has identical preferences and initial wealth) the following proposition: They buy the ticket together, and share the cost and proceeds equally. Should Sam accept the offer? a. Yes, Sam should accept the offer. b. No, Sam should reject the offer. c. Sam would be indifferent between accepting an rejecting the offer. d. There is not enough information to determine if Sam should accept or reject the offer.Janet's broad attitude to risk (risk averse, risk neutral, or risk loving) is independent of her wealth. She has initial wealth w and is offered the opportunity to buy a lottery ticket. If she buys it, her final wealth will be either w + 4 or w – 2, each equally likely. She is indifferent between buying the ticket and not buying it. Janet offers her friend Sam (who has identical preferences and initial wealth) the following proposition: They buy the ticket together, and share the cost and proceeds equally. Sam has another idea: They buy two tickets (that have independent outcomes) and share the costs and proceeds equally. Is this better than buying no tickets? O a. Yes, Sam's solution is preferable to buying no ticket. O b. Yes, Sam's solution is inferior to buying no ticket. O c. Both Janet and Sam would be indifferent between pooling their risk and buying no ticket. O d. There is not enough information to answer this question.Janet's broad attitude to risk (risk averse, risk neutral, or risk loving) is independent of her wealth. She has initial wealth w and is offered the opportunity to buy a lottery ticket. If she buys it, her final wealth will be either w + 4 or w – 2, each equally likely. She is indifferent between buying the ticket and not buying it. Janet offers her friend Sam (who has identical preferences and initial wealth) the following proposition: They buy the ticket together, and share the cost and proceeds equally. Should Sam accept the offer? O a. Yes, Sam should accept the offer. O b. No, Sam should reject the offer. O c. Sam would be indifferent between accepting an rejecting the offer. O d. There is not enough information to determine if Sam should accept or reject the offer.
- Janet's broad attitude to risk (risk averse, risk neutral, or risk loving) is independent of her wealth. She has initial wealth w and is offered the opportunity to buy a lottery ticket. If she buys it, her final wealth will be either w + 4 or w – 2, each equally likely. She is indifferent between buying the ticket and not buying it. Janet offers her friend Sam (who has identical preferences and initial wealth) the following proposition: They buy the ticket together, and share the cost and proceeds equally. Sam has another idea: They buy two tickets (that have independent outcomes) and share the costs and proceeds equally. Which of the following statements is true? O a. There are risk averse expected utility maximisers who would prefer Janet's idea to Sam's idea. O b. Any expected utility maximiser whose utility is a strictly increasing function of wealth would prefer Sam's idea to Janet's idea. O c. Any risk averse expected utility maximiser would prefer Sam's idea to Janet's idea. O…Janet’s broad attitude to risk (risk averse, risk neutral, or risk loving) is independent of her wealth. She has initial wealth w and is offered the opportunity to buy a lottery ticket. If she buys it, her final wealth will be either w+4 or w−2, each equally likely. She is indifferent between buying the ticket and not buying it. Janet offers her friend Sam (who has identical preferences and initial wealth) the following proposition: They buy the ticket together, and share the cost and proceeds equally. Sam has another idea: They buy two tickets (that have independent outcomes) and share the costs and proceeds equally. Suppose that Janet's and Sam's utility of income is given by u(x)=lnx and the initIal wealth of each one of them is equal to w=4. Recall the proposal made by Janet, and the solution put forward by Sam. Which of the following statements is true? a. Both agents prefer Sam's solutions to Janet's solution. b. Both agents prefer Janet's solutions to Sam's solution.…Janet’s broad attitude to risk (risk averse, risk neutral, or risk loving) is independent of her wealth. She has initial wealth ?w and is offered the opportunity to buy a lottery ticket. If she buys it, her final wealth will be either w+4 or w−2, each equally likely. She is indifferent between buying the ticket and not buying it. Janet offers her friend Sam (who has identical preferences and initial wealth) the following proposition: They buy the ticket together, and share the cost and proceeds equally. Sam has another idea: They buy two tickets (that have independent outcomes) and share the costs and proceeds equally. Which of the following statements is true? a. There are risk averse expected utility maximisers who would prefer Janet's idea to Sam's idea. b. Any expected utility maximiser whose utility is a strictly increasing function of wealth would prefer Sam's idea to Janet's idea. c. Any risk averse expected utility maximiser would prefer Sam's idea to Janet's idea.…
- Janet’s broad attitude to risk (risk averse, risk neutral, or risk loving) is independent of her wealth. She has initial wealth ?w and is offered the opportunity to buy a lottery ticket. If she buys it, her final wealth will be either w+4 or w−2, each equally likely. She is indifferent between buying the ticket and not buying it. Janet offers her friend Sam (who has identical preferences and initial wealth) the following proposition: They buy the ticket together, and share the cost and proceeds equally. Sam has another idea: They buy two tickets (that have independent outcomes) and share the costs and proceeds equally. Is this better than buying no tickets? a. Yes, Sam's solution is preferable to buying no ticket. b. Yes, Sam's solution is inferior to buying no ticket. c. Both Janet and Sam would be indifferent between pooling their risk and buying no ticket. d. There is not enough information to answer this question.Zac has a current wealth of £400. He gets an email offering him the chance to enter a prize draw that gives £500 prize with a 25% chance and £0 the rest of the time. Zac is an expected utility maximiser with a von Neumann-Morgenstern utility in wealth w of u (w) = Vw. What is the minimum price at which Zac will sell his rights to enter the draw? £106.25 £506.25 O E31.25 £22.5 £56.25Jamal has a utility function U = W1/2, where W is his wealth in millions of dollars and U is the utility he obtains from that wealth. In the final stage of a game show, the host offers Jamal a choice between (A) $4 million for sure, or (B) a gamble that pays $1 million with probability 0.6 and $9 million with probability 0.4. (1) Does A or B offer Jamal a higher expected utility? Explain your reasoning with calculations. (2) Should Jamal pick A or B? Why? I would like help with the unanswered last parts of the questions.
- A risk-averse agent, Andy, has power utility of consumption with riskaversion coefficient γ = 0.5. While standing in line at the conveniencestore, Andy hears that the odds of winning the jackpot in a new statelottery game are 1 in 250. A lottery ticket costs $1. Assume his income isIt = $100. You can assume that there is only one jackpot prize awarded,and there is no chance it will be shared with another player. The lotterywill be drawn shortly after Andy buys the ticket, so you can ignore therole of discounting for time value. For simplicity, assume that ct+1 = 100even if Andy buys the ticket How large would the jackpot have to be in order for Andy to play thelottery? b) What is the fair (expected) value of the lottery with the jackpot youfound in (a)? What is the dollar amount of the risk premium that Andyrequires to play the lottery? Solve for the optimal number of lottery tickets that Andy would buyif the jackpot value were $10,000 (the ticket price, the odds of winning,and Andy’s…Anna is risk averse and has a utility function of the form u(w) pocket she has €9 and a lottery ticket worth €40 with a probability of 50% and nothing otherwise. She can sell this lottery ticket to Ben who is risk neutral and has €30 in his pocket. Find the range of prices that would make such a transaction possible9. Problems and Applications Q9 Dmitri has a utility function U = W, where W is his wealth in millions of dollars and U is the utility he obtains from that wealth. In the final stage of a game show, the host offers Dmitri a choice between (A) $4 million for sure, or (B) a gamble that pays $1 million with probability 0.4 and $9 million with probability 0.6. Use the blue curve (circle points) to graph Dmitri's utility function at wealth levels of $0, $1 million, $4 million, $9 million, and $16 million. Utility (Thousands) 5.0 4.5 4.0 3.5 3.0 2.5 2.0 1.5 1.0 0.5 0 0 2 4 8 6 10 12 14 Wealth (Millions of dollars) 16 18 20 V Utility Function ?