Question 1 a. The dollar is presently weak and is expected to strengthen over time. These expectations affect the tendency of U.S investors to invest in foreign securities because the value of U.S dollar decrease will lead to the U.S company get less profit and earn less money. Consequently‚ U.S companies will pay fewer dividends for investors who invest in these companies. So‚ investors will tend to invest in foreign securities where they can get higher dividend. On the other hand‚ a weak currency
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Assignment 1 Q1.) (5 points) $50 today is worth MORE than $50 tomorrow.(Tell True or False) Q2.) $100 invested for 10 years at 12% interest is worth more in FV terms than $200 invested for 10 years at 4% interest. (Tell True or False) Q3.) Shawn wants to buy a new telescope. He estimates that it will take him one year to save the money and that the telescope will cost $200. At an interest rate of 6%‚ how much does Shawn need to set aside today to purchase the telescope in one year? Q4.)Johnny and
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Chapter 2 -CAPM: how risk affects return -Expected Return (on investment): mean value of its probability distribution of returns; greater the probability return will be below expected‚ greater the stand-alone risk -Risk Averse: he/she must be compensated for holding risky assets -Asset has 2 risk types: Diversifiable risk can be eliminated by diversification; market risk cannot be eliminated -Market risk measured by standard deviation of returns on portfolio consisting of all stocks -Relevant
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Financial Plan- Part II Personal Finance Economics plays a role in personal finance. -Describe the role that economics plays in your personal financial plan. Also‚ the use of credit plays a role in a personal financial plan. Describe the advantages and disadvantages of credit and explain how you will use it as part of your financial plan. Specifically address the following required elements: - Explain the role the government plays in personal finance (focus on regulations‚ laws
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“Banking‚ Finance‚ and Money: a Socio-economics Approach” L. Randall Wray‚ Professor of Economics and Director of Research at Center for Full Employment and Price Stability‚ University of Missouri—Kansas City; and Senior Scholar‚ Levy Economics Institute at Bard College. This paper will briefly summarize the orthodox approach to banking‚ finance‚ and money and then will point the way toward an alternative based on socio-economics. It will be argued that the alternative approach not only fits
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The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of public finance and its philosophy. Public finance is a part of economics and related with those activities‚ which are associated with the payment of cooperative and governmental activities (Gaffney‚ 2008). Public Finance may also be also defined as a science because it deals with a definite and limited field of human knowledge; it admits of an orderly arrangement of its facts and principles and contains many laws of general progress belonging
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Behavioural Finance Petere Dybdahl Hede Behavioural finance is an add-on paradigm of finance‚ which seeks to supplement the standard theories of finance by introducing behavioural aspects to the decision-making process. Behavioural finance deals with individuals and ways of gathering and using information. Martin Sewell Behavioural finance is the study of the influence of psychology on the behavioural of financial practitioners and subsequent effect on markets. Anastasios Konstantinidis
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PRINCIPLES OF BANKING AND FINANCE MT.KENYA UNIVERSITY INSTRUCTIONS Answer at least TWO questions from section A and TWO others from section B SECTION A 1. a. Compare and contrast the main features of the financial systems of US and Germany. 15 marks b. Discuss the reasons for the internet bubbles of the late 1990s
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Corporate finance: Corporate finance is an area of finance dealing with the financial decisions corporations make and the tools and analysis used to make these decisions. The primary goal of corporate finance is to maximize corporate value while managing the firm’s financial risks. Although it is in principle different from managerial finance which studies the financial decisions of all firms‚ rather than corporations alone‚ the main concepts in the study of corporate finance
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capital or weighted average cost of capital‚ plus or minus a risk premium to reflect the project’s specific risk characteristics. 2) ‘Non-Discounting’ Methods: Payback period: The period required to recover the original investment in a project. The payback is based on cash flows and we may accept the project if its payback period is less than some preset limit. Accounting rate of return (ARR) can be defined as follows: ARR =[pic]; the project is accepted if the AAR is greater than the
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