1. How can the adverse selection problem explain why you are more likely to make a loan to a family member than to a stranger? Because you know your family member better than a stranger‚ you know more about the borrower’s honesty‚ propensity for risk taking‚ and other traits. There is less asymmetric information than with a stranger and less likelihood of an adverse selection problem‚ with the result that you are more likely to lend to the family member. 2. If mortgage rates rise from 5%
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customers. This can be done through market segmentation in order for the company to achieve their target. Market segmentation refers to a marketing concept which divides complete market into smaller segments. One market segment is totally distint from the other segment‚ therefore each company has to design a business tool or known as marketing mix that precisely matches the expectations of consumers in the targeted segments. All together‚ there are four basic market segmentation-strategies which are
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Minicase 4 Yield Curve Hypotheses and the Effects of Economic Events CONCEPTS IN THIS CASE term structure of interest rates default risk risk premium yield curve expectations hypotheses segmented markets theory preferred habitat theory liquidity premium theory Your employer (a bank) has decided to offer five-year loans to its small business customers. You have been presented the task of determining what the appropriate minimum interest rate should be for the most creditworthy customer
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RUNNING HEAD: MARKET STRUCTURES Market Structures University of Phoenix Market Structures In this paper‚ we will discuss the four market structures of Monopoly‚ Oligopoly‚ Monopolistic Competition and Pure Competition. We have identified four companies that operate in each of these market structures: Salt River Project‚ The Coca Cola Company‚ Russ ’s Market‚ and Columbia House. In each market structure we will describe the pricing and non-pricing strategies of the companies operating in
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Describe and critique Moffitt’s (1993) developmental taxonomy. Moffitt (1993) proposed the developmental taxonomy theory of offending behaviour as an attempt to explain the developmental processes that lead to the shape of the age crime curve. Moffitt proposed that there are two primary types of antisocial offenders in society. First the Adolescent Limited Offender who exhibits antisocial behaviour only during adolescence‚ and secondly‚ the Life-Course-Persistent offender‚ who behave in an antisocial
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session‚ students will be able to: - Explain the importance of objectives and the processes processes for setting them. - Identify the different types of organisational objectives - Evaluate the importance of marketing planning process to a market oriented organisation - Explain the different stages of the marketing planning process Marketing Planning • Marketing Planning is a systematic process of assessing marketing opportunities and resources‚ determining marketing objectives and
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Jesus described the first six seals in the Olivet Prophecy‚ and the apostle John goes on in Revelation chapters 7 and 8 to further describe the seventh seal as the opening up of the second phase of the Great Tribulation on Earth. The first four seals are known as the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The first seal introduces the antichrist. The second seal causes great warfare. The third seal causes famine. The fourth seal brings pestilence. The fifth seal reveals that those who are martyred for
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Characteristics of successful entrepreneurs 3. McGregor’s view was that theory X amounted to “treating people as children”. Should we deduce from this that a Theory X approach on part of teachers will produce the best results in the classroom? (10) Firstly‚ Theory X managers assume a number of things about the workers: they assume they don’t want to work‚ lack ambition and discipline is essential to make them work. For these reasons‚ the leadership style of theory X managers is autocratic- orders
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According to wikipedia‚ a market may be of a variety of different systems‚ institutions‚ procedures‚ social relations and infrastructures whereby persons trade and goods and services are exchanged‚ forming part of the economy. The basic concept of market is any structure that allows the exchange of goods‚ services and information. In market there are the buyers and the sellers. Markets vary. There are financial markets‚ prediction markets‚ and so on. Market can be seen in two ways: as a study of
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Market Segment. Three good ways to define market segments: (1) Who the customers are; (2) Where they are; (3) How they behave. How does each of these definitions apply to you? Name three market segments of which you could belong. Why? What products or services are you being targeted for? Some of the best ways to define a market segment are: Identifiable: The process should identify one or more relatively homogeneous groups of prospective buyers with regard to their wants and needs and/or
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