Week 9-Assignment

Assignment: Dealing with Risk, Asymmetric Information, and Incentives

Due Week 9 and worth 310 points

Earlier in the quarter we discussed Southwest Airlines’ use of game  theory to create new strategy. Continue to research Southwest Airlines  or a company of your choice and write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in  which you:

1. Evaluate a company’s recent (with in the last year) actions dealing with risk and uncertainty.
2. Offer advice for improving risk management.
3. Examine an adverse selection problem your company is facing and  recommend how it should minimize its negative impact on transactions.
4. Determine the ways your company is dealing with the moral hazard  problem and suggest best practices used in the industry to deal with it.
5. Identify a principal-agent problem in your company and evaluate the tools it uses to align incentives and improve profitability.
6. Examine the organizational structure of your company and suggests ways it can be changed to improve the overall profitability.
7. Use at least five (5) quality academic resources in this assignment.  Note: One of your references regarding your should have been published  within the last 6 months. Note: Wikipedia does not qualify as an  academic resource.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with  one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA  or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional  instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the  student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date.  The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required  assignment page length.