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- Suppose that left-handed people are more prone to injury than right-handed people. Lefties have an 80 percent chance of suffering an injury leading to a $1,000 loss (in terms of medical expenses and the monetary equivalent of pain and suffering) but righties have only a 20 percent chance of suffering such an injury. The population contains equal numbers of lefties and righties. Individuals all have logarithmic utility-of-wealth functions and initial wealth of $10,000. Assume perfectly competitive insurance market and find (i) the first best and (ii) the second-best contracts.Which is CORRECT about information asymmetry and adverse selection 1. Information asymmetry refers to the situation when buyers have more information on the product than the sellers. 2. Information asymmetry is the result of adverse selection. 3. In a used car market, if sellers with good cars are unwilling to sell at a large discount, then only bad cars will get sold. This suboptimal outcome is so-called “adverse selection”. 4. Due to information asymmetry, market investors interpret firm’s SEO announcement positively because they believe insiders consider the firm undervalued.Give an example, real or imaginary, of an adverse selection problem. Your example must clearly point out: what information is private/asymmetric (is it an attribute or an action?) which party has the private information when does the information asymmetry arise (before or after the contract/transaction?) what is the likely outcome and in which way it can be inefficient