Business
Suppose that you are in charge of an insurance company. Two kinds of people want insurance, healthy people who probably will not get sick this year and unhealthy people who probably will get sick this year. Healthy people expect to pay, on average, $4,000 on medical bills this year. Unhealthy people expect to pay, on average, $8,000 on medical bills this year. Consider these assumptions and then answer the problem. (i) People will not pay more for insurance than they expect to pay in medical bills; people are risk neutral. As such, healthy people will not pay more than $4,000 for insurance, and sick people will not pay more than $8,000. (ii) You want to insure as many people as possible, but you cannot charge less for insurance than you expect to pay out. If you do, you will go bankrupt, and you will not be able to pay the medical bills of some people who get sick.(iii) People know whether they are healthy or unhealthy, but it is either impossible or illegal for you to know whether a person is healthy or unhealthy. This means that you cannot charge less to healthy people and more to sick people since you do not know which individuals fall into each group. (iv) There are an equal number of healthy and unhealthy people.How much will you charge for insurance in equilibrium, and who will buy insurance? a. You charge $2,000 and everyone buys insurance.b. You charge $3,000 and only unhealthy people buy insurance.c. You charge $1,000 and everyone buys insurance.d. You charge $1,000 and only healthy people buy insuran.e. You charge $3,000 and everyone buys insurance.
David Gain is the chief executive officer (CEo) of Forest Media Corp., which is interested in acquiring RS Communications, Inc. To initiate negotiations, Gain meets with RS's CEo, Gill Raz, on Friday, July 12. Two days later, Gain phones his brother, Mark, who buys 3,800 shares of RS stock on the following Monday. Mark discusses the deal with their father, Jordan, who buys 20,000 RS shares on Thursday. on July 25, the day before the RS bid is due, Gain phones his parents' home, and Mark buys another 3,200 RS shares. over the next few days, Gain periodically phones Mark and Jordan, both of whom continued to buy RS shares. on August 5, RS refuses Forest's bid and announces that it is merging with another company. The price of RS stock rises thirty percent, increasing the value of Mark's and Jordan's shares by nearly $660,000 and $400,000, respectively. Required:a. Is Gain guilty of insider trading?b. Could a court hold Gain liable? Why or why not?