A CEO has  placed you in charge of a new investment opportunity to borrow $5 billion dollars to create a new subsidiary of MCI called MillerCare Insurance. Estimates indicate that in seven years, MillerCare Insurance and its assets will be valued at $8 billion. The best offer for the loan sits at 12 percent. Mr. Miller instructed you to provide guidance to the new insurance firm, if indeed you decide to accept the loan package. How might you advise the top management of the insurance firm in regard to: How the Law of Diminishing Returns impacts the insurance market The dangers of Moral hazard Adverse selection

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A CEO has  placed you in charge of a new investment opportunity to borrow $5 billion dollars to create a new subsidiary of MCI called MillerCare Insurance.

Estimates indicate that in seven years, MillerCare Insurance and its assets will be valued at $8 billion. The best offer for the loan sits at 12 percent.

Mr. Miller instructed you to provide guidance to the new insurance firm, if indeed you decide to accept the loan package. How might you advise the top management of the insurance firm in regard to:

  1. How the Law of Diminishing Returns impacts the insurance market
  2. The dangers of
  3. Moral hazard
  4. Adverse selection
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