times‚ especially as adults we seem to have a fixed mindset‚ which is “the belief that intelligence is an entity‚ set and birth and unchangeable” (Passarelli 2014). Meaning that you are intelligent because you were born into a family of well- educated people that passed the “smart” gene to you or you don’t have it because you were not born into a family who maybe went to college or finished high school. I have to say‚ I don’t agree with this theory of a fixed mindset because I know many people‚ including
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period at 2.40% + 1.30% = 3.70%.. 11. Answer the below questions. (a) What is the advantage of a call feature for an issuer? Inclusion of a call feature benefits bond issuers by allowing them to replace an old bond issue with a lower-interest cost issue if interest rates in the market decline. A call provision effectively allows the issuer to alter the maturity of a bond. The right to call an obligation is included in most loans and therefore in all securities created from such loans. This is
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Fixed Income Securities Chapter 2 Basics of Fixed Income Securities Problem Set (light version of the exercises in the text) Q3. You are given the following data on different rates with the same maturity (1.5 years)‚ but quoted on a different basis and different compounding frequencies: • Continuously compounded rate: 2.00% annualized rate • Continuously compounded return on maturity: 3.00% • Annually compounded rate: 2.10% annualized rate • Semi-annually compounded rate: 2.01% annualized
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This paper attempted to examine the effect of winning percentage of NFL teams on attendance from 2008 to 2014 by employing the fixed effects model. According to our results‚ we can conclude that teams that win more do indeed enjoy higher game attendance. This result is what we expected‚ and it confirm the results of previous research by Spenner‚ Fenn‚ & Crooker (2010). Moreover‚ game attendance however is not purely a matter of the teams winning percentage; other factors play an important role as
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Chapter 1: Bond Prices‚ Discount Factors and Arbitrage 1. Use this list of Treasury bond prices as of January 15‚ 2013 (which should be taken as the current date for all the questions below except for question 7) to derive the discount factors for cash flows to be received in 0.5‚ 1‚ 1.5 and 2 years. Bond Price 6.0s of 7/15/13 102-15+ 5.0s of 1/15/14 103-7 3/4 8.0s of 7/15/14 107-24 4.0s of 1/15/15 100-23 1/2 Answer: (a) To find d(0.5) The equation from the 6.0s of 15 July
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CHAPTER 6 PRODUCTION EXERCISES 4. A political campaign manager must decide whether to emphasize television advertisements or letters to potential voters in a reelection campaign. Describe the production function for campaign votes. How might information about this function (such as the shape of the isoquants) help the campaign manager to plan strategy? The output of concern to the campaign manager is the number of votes. The production function has two inputs‚ television advertising and
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done above is a “full-cost” analysis. This is in contrast to a “direct-cost” analysis that ignores overhead costs. Is full cost the right metric for job profitability and customer profitability? What assumptions are we making about the variability of overhead costs when we do a “full-cost” analysis? By allocating the overhead costs to jobs and customers there is an implicit assumption that these are variable with the cost driver. In reality‚ some of the overhead costs are fixed‚ at least in the short
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3 Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis Learning Objectives 1. Explain the features of cost-volumeprofit (CVP) analysis 2. Determine the breakeven point and output level needed to achieve a target operating income 3. Understand how income taxes affect CVP analysis 4. Explain how managers use CVP analysis in decision making 5. Explain how sensitivity analysis helps managers cope with uncertainty 6. Use CVP analysis to plan variable and fixed costs 7. Apply CVP analysis to a company producing multiple
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WORKING CAPITAL AND FIXED CAPITAL AND ITS ADVANTAGES Introduction: A firm requires funds to acquire two types of assets : fixed assets and current assets .Fixed assets include land biulding ‚ plant‚ and machinary ‚ vehicles ‚ equipment etc.These assets relatively permanent in nature and are necessary for carrying on the bussiness .Current assets ‚on the other hand ‚are kept for supporting day-to-day operations and keep changing during the course of the business.They liquidated within short period
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productivity of the product then the end cost could increase too. Changes of the productivity can increase by changes in technology and human capital. This allows the production of the products to become better managed by managers because it can track all the materials that is needed for that product with better technology. The price increase of $0.20 cents per pound does have an effect on the raw material cost of the product because the increase in price will come to the cost of the product which if the price
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