An investor is to purchase one of three types of real estate, as illustrated in Figure below. The investor must decide among an apartment building, an office building, and a warehouse. The future states of nature that will determine how much profit the investor will make are good economic conditions and poor economic conditions. The profits that will result from each decision in the event of each state of nature are shown in Table below: Assume that it is now possible to estimate a probability of 0.60 that good economic conditions will exist and a probability of .40 that poor economic conditions will exist.

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An investor is to purchase one of three types of real estate, as illustrated in
Figure below. The investor must decide among an apartment building, an
office building, and a warehouse. The future states of nature that will
determine how much profit the investor will make are good economic
conditions and poor economic conditions. The profits that will result from
each decision in the event of each state of nature are shown in Table below:

Assume that it is now possible to estimate a probability of 0.60 that good
economic conditions will exist and a probability of .40 that poor economic
conditions will exist.


a) Determine the best decision by using expected opportunity loss.

b) Develop a decision tree, with expected values at the probability nodes.

c) Compute the expected value of perfect information.

 

States of Nature
Decision
GooD ECONOMIC
Poor ECONOMIC
(Purchase)
CONDITIONS
CONDITIONS
$ 50,000
$ 30,000
Apartment building
Office building
100,000
- 40,000
Warehouse
30,000
10,000
Transcribed Image Text:States of Nature Decision GooD ECONOMIC Poor ECONOMIC (Purchase) CONDITIONS CONDITIONS $ 50,000 $ 30,000 Apartment building Office building 100,000 - 40,000 Warehouse 30,000 10,000
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