What is the problem with paying plant managers in multi-plant firms according to how much each plant produces relative to its capacity?
A) Managers in low-cost or high-capacity plants could be penalized, in percentage terms, for their overproduction.
B) The production problem in multi-plant firms is usually how to lower production to increase market power, not how to increase production.
C) Managers in high-cost or low-capacity plants could be penalized for production constraints over which they have no control.
D) Managers would have an incentive to understate the productive capacity of their plants.
E) Managers would have an incentive to overstate the productive capacity of their plants.
Question 2
Refer to Scenario 15.4. The net present value of the purchase is
A) 200 10 - 800.
B) 200/1.06 - 800.
C) 200/1.0610 - 800.
D) 200 (1 + 1/1.06 + 1/1.062 + ... + 1/1.069 ) - 800.
E) 200 / (1 + 1/1.06 + 1/1.062 + ... + 1/1.069 ) - 800.
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