You take your answer to question 4 to your parent and say, "Hey, why didn't you think ahead and buy me this coat the year I was born??? Look at all the money we could have saved!" Aside from the fact that your parent had no way of knowing you'd want a North Face almost two decades later, your parent disagrees with your logic and says there wouldn't have been any savings by buying the coat in your birth year. Why is your parent making this claim?

Many potential buyers value high-quality used cars at the full-information market price of € p1 and lemons at € p2. a limited number of potential sellers value high-quality cars at € v1 ≤ p1 and lemons at € v2 ≤ p2. everyone is risk neutral. the share of lemons among all the used cars that might be potentially sold is € θ . suppose that the buyers incur a transaction cost of $200 to purchase a car. this transaction cost is the value of their time to find a car. what is the equilibrium? is it possible that no cars are sold