Exam 25: Insurance and Risk Management

Use the information for the question(s) below. Your firm faces an 8% chance of a potential loss of $50 million next year. If your firm implements new safety policies, it can reduce the chance of this loss to 3%, but the new safety policies have an upfront cost of $250,000. Suppose that the beta of the loss is 0 and the risk-free rate of interest is 5%. -What is the actuarially fair cost of full insurance?

The value of insurance comes from its ability to reduce the cost of ________ for the firm.

Firms use all of the following for reducing their exposure to commodity price movements EXCEPT ________.

Which of the following statements is FALSE?

Use the information for the question(s) below. Your firm faces an 8% chance of a potential loss of $50 million next year. If your firm implements new safety policies, it can reduce the chance of this loss to 3%, but the new safety policies have an upfront cost of $250,000. Suppose that the beta of the loss is 0 and the risk-free rate of interest is 5%. -Farmville Industries is a major agricultural firm and is concerned about the possibility of drought impacting corn production over the next year. In the event of a drought, Farmville Industries anticipates a loss of $75 million. Suppose the likelihood of a drought is 10% per year, and the beta associated with such a loss is 0.4. If the risk-free interest rate is 5% and the expected return on the market is 10%, then what is the actuarially fair insurance premium?

The risk that arises because the value of a futures contract will not be perfectly correlated with the firm's exposure is called ________.

Insurance that compensates for the loss or unavoidable absence of crucial employees in the firm is called ________.

What are some of the disadvantages of long-term supply contracts?

Which of the following statements is FALSE?

Which of the following statements regarding futures contracts is FALSE?

Use the information for the question(s) below. Your firm faces an 8% chance of a potential loss of $50 million next year. If your firm implements new safety policies, it can reduce the chance of this loss to 3%, but the new safety policies have an upfront cost of $250,000. Suppose that the beta of the loss is 0 and the risk-free rate of interest is 5%. -An operator of an oil well has a 0.5% chance of experiencing a catastrophic failure over the next year. This failure will cost the operator $500 million. If the risk-free rate is 2%, the expected return on the market is 8%, and the beta of the risk is 0, what is the actuarially fair insurance premium?

To cover the costs that result if some aspect of the business causes harm to a third party or someone else's property, a firm would purchase ________.

A steel maker needs 5,000,000 tons of coal next year. The current market price for coal is $70.00 per ton. At this price, the firm expects its EBIT to be $500 million. What will the firm's EBIT if the firm enters into a supply contract for coal for a fixed price of $72.00 per ton?

Insurance for large risks that cannot be well diversified has a(n) ________, which increases its cost.

Which of the following is an agreement to trade an asset on some future date, at a price that is fixed today?

An S&L owns mortgages that have a current market value of $325 million. The duration of this portfolio of mortgages is 15.9 years. The S&L finances its mortgages by issuing CDs and the current value of these liabilities is $275 million. The duration of these liabilities is 4.6 years. What is the initial duration of the equity for the S&L?

An interest rate that adjusts to current market conditions is called a(n) ________.

A manufacturer of breakfast cereal is concerned about corn prices. The firm anticipates needing 1 million bushels of corn in one month. The current price of corn is $6.50 per bushel and the futures price for delivery in one month is $7.00 per bushel. The cost to store the corn for 1 month is $100,000. What should the firm do?