Tom, mary and jill have apartments in the same building. a security system for their building costs $750. tom is willing to pay $100 for the security system, mary is willing to pay $300 and jill is willing to pay $300. they have a meeting to vote on whether to pay $250 each for the security system. at least two of them must vote for the system to be installed before the vote is passed. the efficient outcome is to have the security system installed. after the meeting the security system will which illustrates
be installed, the free rider problem
not be installed, the free rider problem
be installed, a negative externality
not be installed, a negative externality

If you want to compare two different investments, what should you calculate

Recently, verizon wireless ran a pricing trial in order to estimate the elasticity of demand for its services. the manager selected three states that were representative of its entire service area and increased prices by 5 percent to customers in those areas. one week later, the number of customers enrolled in verizon's cellular plans declined 4 percent in those states, while enrollments in states where prices were not increased remained flat. the manager used this information to estimate the own-price elasticity of demand and, based on her findings, immediately increased prices in all market areas by 5 percent in an attempt to boost the company's 2016 annual revenues. one year later, the manager was perplexed because verizon's 2016 annual revenues were 10 percent lower than those in 2015"the price increase apparently led to a reduction in the company's revenues. did the manager make an error? yes - the one-week measures show demand is inelastic, so a price increase will decrease revenues. yes - the one-week measures show demand is elastic, so a price increase will reduce revenues. yes - cell phone elasticity is likely much larger in the long-run than the short-run. no - the cell phone market must have changed between 2011 and 2012 for this price increase to lower revenues.

Asmartphone manufacturing company uses social media to achieve different business objectives. match each social media activity of the company to the objective it the company achieve.