Problem Set 2 – Strategy I 1. Why do price misreads (or more generally the inability to observe prices with precision) encourage firms to lower prices? [Note: assume all prices are subject to misreads.] Misreads occur when a firm are competing with no information about competitors and assumes that competitors have taken an uncooperative pricing action when in fact they are cooperative. This assumption makes the firm react in an uncooperative manner‚ lowering the price. This asymmetric information
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Bonds-1. Interest on a certain issue of bonds is paid annually with a coupon rate of 8%. The bonds have a par value of $1‚000. The yield to maturity is 9%. What is the current market piece of these bonds? The bonds will mature in 5 years. P= CPN x (1/y) {1-[1/(1+y)^n] + [FV/ (1+y)^n] CPN= 1000 x .08= 80 P= 80 (1/.09) {1- [1/(1.09)^5]} + [1000/(1.09)^5] = 73.39 (.351) + 649.35 = $675.11 Bonds-2. A certain bond has 12 years left to maturity. Interest is paid annually at a coupon rate of 10%. The bonds
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Global Environments and Problem Sets Learning Team C Acc/300 Summary organizations’ financial statements: How is the corporation’s debt securities reported on the financial statements How is the corporation’s stock investments reported on the financial statements Why would the corporation invest in stocks and debt securities? What are the corporation’s relative risks and rewards of equity versus debt securities? Debt securities are distinct from equity instruments‚ but both assets
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Unit 6 questions Chapter 16: 1) Along with railroads‚ the Republicans’ protective tariffs helped build other U.S. industries‚ including textile and steel manufacturing in the Northeast and Midwest and (through a tariff on imported wool) sheep ranching in the West. Tariffs also funded government itself. Tariffs provided the largest share of revenue for the treasury‚ and helped fund the projects. 2) Farmers on the Great Plains faced the challenge of a hostile environment. In the grasslands‚ a cloud
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responsibilities and career pathways of 3 health or social car workers. Social worker: Social workers form relationships with people and assist them to live more successfully within their local communities by helping them find solutions to their problems. Social work involves engaging not only with clients themselves but their families and friends as well as working closely with other organisations including the police‚ local authority departments‚ schools and the probation service. Social work
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Week 4 Checkpoint March 17‚ 2013 XACC/290 Resource: Ch. 4 of Financial Accounting Complete Exercise BE4-1. Complete Problems 4-2A & 4-3A. BE4-1: |Cash |Net Income | |-$100 |$0 | |-$20 |$0 | |+$1‚300 |$1‚300 | |+$800 |$800 | |-$2‚500 |$0 | |-$600 |$0 | | |
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This figure assumes that the main reference set‚ covers the indicated circle of sections A‚ B‚ C. The solution 1 is created from a convex combination of reference solutions A‚ B that is added to the reference set as the only solution. In a similar way‚ combining of convex and non-convex reference of new and original solutions are created points 2‚ 3 and 4. The complete reference set are including 7 solutions (members) that is shown in the figure above. In genetic algorithm‚ two solutions are selected
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Biology 180 Problem Set 2 1. A population of marine gastropods has shell lengths that are normally distributed with a mean μ = 8 mm and variance σ2 = 2.15 mm2. a. what proportion of the population will have shell lengths between 6.5 mm and 8.5 mm? (3 points) b. what is the probability of finding a gastropod that has a shell length of exactly 7.5 mm? (1 point) c. if there are 1‚000 gastropods in an area‚ how many will have shell lengths greater than 5 mm? (3 points) 2. Childhood lead poisoning
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What is the present value of $150‚000 to be received 8 years from today if the discount rate is 11 percent? Question 1 options: | A) | $65‚088.97 | | B) | $71‚147.07 | | C) | $74‚141.41 | | D) | $79‚806.18 | | E) | $83‚291.06 | Question 2 (2 points) According to the Rule of 72‚ you can do which one of the following? Question 2 options: | A) | double your money in five years at 7.2 percent interest | | B) | double your money in 7.2 years at 8 percent interest
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Problem 17-1 Dividends and Taxes [LO2] Dark Day‚ Inc.‚ has declared a $5.60 per share dividend. Suppose capital gains are not taxed‚ but dividends are taxed at 15 percent. New IRS regulations require that taxes be withheld at the time the dividend is paid. Dark Day sells for $94.10 per share‚ and the stock is about to go ex-dividend. What do you think the ex-dividend price will be? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places. (e.g.‚ 32.16)) Ex-dividend price $ Problem 17-2 Stock Dividends
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