Hamid and Lee are neighbors. Hamid has a barking dog that he keeps in his backyard for property protection; he values the dog at $600. Lee despises the constant barking, because it costs him $800 in lost sleep.

a. If Hamid has a legal right to own a barking dog, is there a Coase solution to this prot
b. Because Hamid speaks Farsi and Lee speaks Korean, they need an interpreter to negotiations regarding the barking dog. Is there a Coase solution to this problem if interpreter costs $70? How about if the interpreter charges $210?

Which of the following is not part of the mission statement of the department of homeland security? lead the unified national effort to secure america protect against and respond to threats and hazards to the nation ensure safe and secure borders coordinate intelligence operations against terrorists in other countries

Aproduction line has three machines a, b, and c, with reliabilities of .96, .86, and .85, respectively. the machines are arranged so that if one breaks down, the others must shut down. engineers are weighing two alternative designs for increasing the line’s reliability. plan 1 involves adding an identical backup line, and plan 2 involves providing a backup for each machine. in either case, three machines (a, b, and c) would be used with reliabilities equal to the original three. a. compute overall system reliability under plan 1. (round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 4 decimal places.) reliability b. compute overall system reliability under plan 2. (round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 4 decimal places.) reliability c. which plan will provide the higher reliability? plan2plan1

On december 31 of the current year, the unadjusted trial balance of a company using the percent of receivables method to estimate bad debt included the following: accounts receivable, debit balance of $97,900; allowance for doubtful accounts, credit balance of $1,031. what amount should be debited to bad debts expense, assuming 6% of outstanding accounts receivable at the end of the current year are estimated to be uncollectible?