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Question

Within a mean–variance framework, where expected profit is desirable and its standard deviation measures risk, which strategy-selection rule is consistent with risk aversion?

The correct answer is

If two strategies have the same expected profit, select the one with smaller standard deviation

For equal expected profits, select the strategy with the smaller standard deviation. It has less risk without sacrificing expected return in the stated mean–variance comparison.

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Important Questions from Economy

  1. When goods are produced by exploiting natural resources, it is an activity associated with:

  2. A system in which local farmers were allowed to cultivate temporarily within a plantation is known as:

  3. Which goods from India dominated the international textile markets before the age of mechanized industries?

  4. Which type of farming is practiced in areas of high population pressure on land?

  5. The major economic attribute for comparing countries is their:

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