Econ 252 Spring 2011 Final Exam Econ 252 - Financial Markets Professor Robert Shiller Spring 2011 Professor Robert Shiller Final Exam Instructions: • • • • • • • • The exam consists of a total of twelve pages including this coversheet. There are two parts to this exam. In Part I‚ answer any sixteen of the twenty questions‚ five minutes each. The total for Part I is 80 minutes. In Part II‚ answer all seven questions. The total for Part II is 70 minutes.
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Primark Corp. was emerging as a leader in the global information services industry in the mid-1990s. Through its four major divisions‚ the company focused its information services on financial‚ weather‚ and information technology markets. Primark also provided miscellaneous transportation and financial services. Primark was basically a utility company until 1987‚ when it exited that business and forged into information services. Primark originated from the early 1980s spin-off of Michigan Consolidated
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businesses. In each of these areas our goal is to be the preferred employer‚ the preferred provider‚ and the most profitable company. Mr. Cohrs recognized that the divisional hurdle rates at Marriott would have a significant effect on the firm ’s financial and operating strategies. As a rule of thumb‚ increasing the hurdle rate by 1% (for example‚ from 12% to 12.12%)‚ decreases the present value of project inflows by 1%. Because costs remained roughly fixed‚ these changes in the value of inflows translated
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Snyder’s of Hanover Snyder’s of Hanover had a big problem of managing and analyzing financial data. Although Snyder’s sells more than 80 million bags of pretzels‚ chips‚ and organic snack items each year‚ its core systems of collecting data were entered manually and written down. Snyder’s financial department was collecting spreadsheets from all departments to bring the financial analyst together. Their financial analyst would spend the entire final week of each month collecting the spreadsheets
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FNCE 696 Case Study A Series of Phone Hacking Scandals reveal the flaws of management at News Corp The News Corporation (News Corp) is one of the World’s largest multinational media conglomerates. Its holdings include book publishing‚ newspapers‚ TV broadcasting‚ music‚ radio and magazines. The recent phone hacking scandals that took place at one of News Corp’s subsidiaries not only led to FBI investigations‚ but also led to the closing of one of the World’s largest and longest running English
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INTRODUCTION The global financial crisis‚ brewing for a while‚ really started to show its effects in the middle of 2007 and into 2008. Around the world stock markets have fallen‚ large financial institutions have collapsed or been bought out‚ and governments in even the wealthiest nations have had to come up with rescue packages to bail out their financial systems. On the one hand many people are concerned that those responsible for the financial problems are the ones being bailed
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What financial and non financial motivators are used to motivate employees? Introduction It is important that a company makes the employee feel motivated. There are many reasons as to why they should do this. One of the reasons is that if an employee does not feel motivated then they may feel that their job is quite boring and therefore as a result of this they may decide to leave the employment and resign. If they do this‚ this would cost the company money to hire and recruit a new employer as
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As the complexity and scope of business has expanded through the world‚ the need to track financial information has grown. There has been a corresponding increase in illegal financial activity according to separate surveys by the U. S. Department of Justice‚ Pricewaterhouse-Coopers‚ and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) (Houck‚ Kranacher‚ Morris‚ Riley‚ Robertson‚ & Wells‚ 2006). An understanding of effective fraud and forensic accounting techniques can assist forensic accountants
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INTRODUCTION This report shows the operations of the business Sprezzatura Coffee Sdn. Bhd. which is based in Petaling Jaya‚ Selangor (refer to appendix B). Sprezzatura is not just a normal café as it is also a roastery which basically means a place where coffees are roasted (Web-definition.com‚ 2014). Being the only café opened in Phileo Damansara I building has made it an instant hit among the businessman and woman and employees that works in the building. Sprezzatura has created a nice ambience
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Research Process on Financial Crisis Louis Cappelli 2/18/2012 From the research I have performed so far‚ I have been able to isolate the main issues that caused the financial crisis in the 2000’s. It seems to be that this whole crisis revolves around the major banks in America. I have been through a good amount of articles based upon the financial crisis so far‚ with each of them stating at least once something about the crisis relating to the banks. As I was finding this material‚ I noticed
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