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Which of the following IS NOT a major criticism associated with the Contingent Valuation method?

Suppose you were analyzing the use value of a public beach, and controlling for income, age, preferences, and everything else that might affect beach visits, you have gathered the following data: Travel Cost Number of day trips/year $0 50 $30 20 $49 1 $50 0   a.  (12 points) If there are 1000 people in each of the three travel cost categories ($0, $30, $49), what is the approximate total consumer surplus arising from day trips to this beach? b.  (8 points) Your boss needs help evaluating a decision to close this particular beach in order to preserve habitat for an endangered sea bird called a plover that inhabits only this stretch of beach. From a CV study you know that US citizens are willing to pay (WTP) $1,500,000/year  to preserve the plover.  Based on your analysis, do you conclude that protecting the plover is efficient?

The diagram below – which shows a market with a negative externality – applies to questions 8 through 10. The size of marginal external costs can be determined by …  

The final exam is not a comprehensive exam. 

Moreno Corporation common stock pays a constant annual dividend of $4.50 per share. What is the value of this stock at a discount rate of 14.2 percent?

Lincoln Park Company has a bond outstanding with a coupon rate of 5.76 percent and semiannual payments. The yield to maturity is 6.3 percent and the bond matures in 21 years. What is the market price if the bond has a par value of $2,000?

Bringing a novel drug all the way from synthesis through FDA approval is very cheap and fast to do.

Adults should be getting ____________ hours of sleep every night. 

A cellular phone company offers several different service options. One option, for people who plan on using the phone only in emergencies, costs the user $4.20/month plus $0.57/min for each minute the phone is used. Write a linear function for the monthly cost y of the phone in terms of the number of minutes x the phone is used. [a] Use the function to find the cost of using the cellular phone for 11 minutes in 1 month. [b]

Use the compound interest formula A = P(1 + r/n)nt, where P is the amount deposited, A is the value of the money after t years, r is the annual interest rate as a decimal, and n is the number of compounding periods per year. A computer network specialist deposits $2500 into a retirement account that earns 7.5% annual interest, compounded daily. What is the value of the investment after 20 years? (Round your answer to two decimal places.) Answer: _______