Forum #2: Linear Equations in Real Life Pick one of the following problems. Show how you would solve it using a system of linear equations. 1) John spent $201 shirts and pants for work. Shirts cost $27 and pants cost $22. If he bought a total of 8 articles of clothing‚ then how many of each kind did he buy? 2) A school dance has 228 students. There are 63 fewer girls than twice as many boys. How many boys and girls attended the dance? 3) There are 15 animals in the barn. Some are ducks and some
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Problems and Solutions 1 CHAPTER 1—Problems 1.1 Problems on Bonds Exercise 1.1 On 12/04/01‚ consider a fixed-coupon bond whose features are the following: • face value: $1‚000 coupon rate: 8% • coupon frequency: semiannual • maturity: 05/06/04 • What are the future cash flows delivered by this bond? Solution 1.1 1. The coupon cash flow is equal to $40 8% × $1‚000 = $40 2 It is delivered on the following future dates: 05/06/02‚ 11/06/02‚ 05/06/03‚ 11/06/03 and 05/06/04. The redemption value
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PUBLIC BUDGET AND BUDGETARY CONTROL IN NIGERIA INTRODUCTION In many ways budget documents are the most important manifestation of public they record the outcome of the political process: winners and losers of the political competition. They delineate government total service effort. As political documents budget allocate scarce resources among competing social and economic needs. As managerial documents they specify the ways and means for providing for government services. By establishing
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off at a finite infinite-maturity value of β0‚ that is constant: lim R(t‚ x)(τ) = β0 + β1; τ→0 lim R(t‚ x)(τ) = β0 τ→∞ Data The data collected to test how well NS model performs in estimating the term structure of interest rate is 165 pieces of zero-coupon bonds issued in the U.S. on April 11th 2014. After graphing the real YTM scatter diagram‚ we found that these bonds’ YTMs are monotone increasing basically. We thus assume
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Sections 3/4 – Solution to Exercises 3.2. Suppose you own a portfolio of two zero-coupon bonds‚ one maturing in three years and one maturing in five years. Both have a face value of 100 euro. The three year rate is currently 3% and the five year rate 4%. What is the value of your portfolio? What is its modified duration? What is the sensitivity of the portfolio value to one basis point increase in each of the time buckets? What is the present value of a basis point? After some up-beat economic
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BS430: Business Ethics Case 15: The Coca Cola Company Struggles with Ethical Issues 1). What role does corporation reputation play within organizational performance and social responsibility? Develop a list of factors or characteristics that different stakeholders may use in assessing corporate reputation. Are these factors consistent across stakeholders? Why or why not? Corporate reputation plays a very integral part within organizational performance and social responsibility. Either one
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For the student’s convenience‚ the following material has been adapted‚ with permission‚ from Walt Disney Company’s Sleeping Beauty Bonds – Duration Analysis‚ Harvard Business School Case 9-294-083‚ Rev. July 13‚ 2000. Copyright © 1994 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. 1. What are the cash payments associated with the Sleeping Beauties? Who gets how much and when‚ per $100 of bonds issued? 2. What interest rate was used to calculate the price? 3. Next day‚ market yield
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value of $1 to be delivered at a later date T : (1.1b) Z(t; T ) = zero coupon bond‚ maturity T ‚ as seen at t. These discount factors and zero coupon bonds are the ones obtained from the currency’s swap curve. Clearly D(T ) = Z(0; T ). We use distinct notation for discount factors and zero coupon bonds to remind ourselves that discount factors D(T ) are not random; we can always obtain the current discount factors from the stripper. Zero coupon bonds Z(t; T ) are random‚ at least until time catches
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include any here‚ as each true/false will require a different reasoning than others. Question 1: Consider a project with the following risk-free cash flows: t = 0 t = 1 t = 2 -40 20 25 Suppose that one year zero-coupon bonds yield 6% and two year zero-coupon bonds yield 8%. 1a) Find the NPV of the project. 20/(1+6%)+25/(1+8%)^2-40=0.3014 1b) Describe the tracking portfolio for this project. FV=25 and 20 1c) Describe how you could finance the project to
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CHAPTER 3 Valuing Bonds Answers to Problem Sets 1. a. Does not change b. Price falls c. Yield rises. 2. a. If the coupon rate is higher than the yield‚ then investors must be expecting a decline in the capital value of the bond over its remaining life. Thus‚ the bond’s price must be greater than its face value. b. Conversely‚ if the yield is greater than the coupon‚ the price will be below face value and it will rise over the remaining life of the bond. 3.
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