Chapter 3 What Do Interest Rates Mean and What is Their Role in Valuation? Measuring Interest Rates Present Value Four types of Credit Market Instruments Yield to Maturity Global Box: Negative T-Bill Rates? Japan Shows the Way The Distinction Between Real and Nominal Interest Rates The Distinction Between Interest Rates and Returns Mini-Case Box: With TIPS‚ Real Interest Rates Have Become Observable in the United States Maturity and the Volatility of Bond Returns: Interest-Rate Risk Mini-Case Box:
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Table of Contents Introduction Just-in-time is a new system created by Taiichi Ohno in Japan in the early 1970s at a Toyota car assembly plant. It was created to reduce cost and eliminate inventory. Basically the idea of JIT is to produce necessary items at the necessary time in the necessary quantity needed. It is a management philosophy and not a technique‚ which is associated with the management process and not the end-result. In other words‚ the idea is to supply materials
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Price FloorsA price floor is the lowest legal price a commodity can be sold at. Price floors are used by the government to prevent prices from being too low. The most common price floor is the minimum wage--the minimum price that can be payed for labor. Price floors are also used often in agriculture to try to protect farmers. For a price floor to be effective‚ it must be set above the equilibrium price. If it’s not above equilibrium‚ then the market won’t sell below equilibrium and the price floor
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curve as rendering the same level of utility (satisfaction) for the consumer. A budget constraint represents all the combinations of goods and services that a consumer may purchase given current prices within his or her given income. For an individual‚ indifference curves and an assumption of constant prices and a fixed income in a two-good world will give the following diagram. The consumer can choose any point on or below the budget constraint line BC. This line is diagonal since it comes from the
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capital gain occurs when: A. the selling price is less than the purchase price. B. the purchase price is less than the selling price. C. there is no dividend paid. D. there is no income component of return. 4. Which one of the following is a correct statement concerning risk premium? A. The greater the volatility of returns‚ the greater the risk premium. B. The lower the volatility of returns‚ the greater the risk premium. C. The lower the average rate of return‚ the greater the risk premium
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simple interest. How much more could you have earned over a 20-year period if the interest had compounded annually? A. $849.22 B. $930.11 C. $982.19 D. $1‚021.15 E. $1‚077.94 2. Today‚ you earn a salary of $36‚000. What will be your annual salary twelve years from now if you earn annual raises of 3.6 percent? A. $55‚032.54 B. $57‚414.06 C. $58‚235.24 D. $59‚122.08 E. $59‚360.45 3. You hope to buy your dream car four years from now. Today‚ that car costs $82‚500. You expect the price to
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A. If the price of natural gas‚ a resource used by manufacturers throughout the United States‚ were to double‚ the cost of production of notebooks would most likely increase as well. This would then lead to a decrease in supply (a shift to the left). Changes in Equilibrium of Notebooks Price: Increase Quantity: Decrease Determinant: (ROTTEN) Resource: cost and availability B. If the government were to provide a subsidy for notebook manufacturers‚ the cost of production would
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Just Deserts The concept of “just deserts” can be most effectively described in the writings of Andrew Von Hirsch. Basically those who commit crime deserve to be punished and by punishing them it may prevent further crimes from being committed (Siegel‚ 2012). There have been many different positions on this theory of just deserts. Some argue against while others strongly defend the effectiveness of this theory. We will look at both sides of the argument and review the pros and cons of each. The
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Jessie English 12 26 March 2013 Just in Case Meg Rosoff Young Adult Novel 246 Pages Prediction with Explanation A. Judging by the front of the book‚ I feel as though this book may be about the life of this teenage boy on the cover of the book‚ but as I look towards the back of the book and read the reviews‚ I think that maybe it’s going to be a little deeper than just the boy’s life description. Maybe it will be about how a boy takes a journey somewhere. I think these things because
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