Industrial Organization‚ Spring Semester (2013) Mark McCabe Problem Set 1 Due in class on 27. March Instructions: Please show all of your work‚ e.g. all of the calculations associated with each solution. Your solutions should be typed and not handwritten. As I mentioned in class‚ students may work together to solve these problems‚ but plagiarism or copying is not permitted. On the 27th‚ please bring a paper copy to class‚ and e-mail me a digital copy (mccabe@umich.edu) before the beginning
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Quinnipiac University School of Business FIN350 Global Financial Markets & Institutions Questions & Problems Set 5 Spring 2013 1. Explain why commercial banks are regulated and describe the major pieces of legislation enacted to prevent bank failures. Financial institutions are regulated because they provide products and services that the economy needs to function efficiently. Also they function in an environment where there is a great deal of asymmetric information‚ so they
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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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Quantitative methods have their strengths and weaknesses. Discuss. Quantitative methods‚ like all social research methods‚ have their own set of strengths and weaknesses. This essay will attempt to critically assess those characteristics and draw a comparison between quantitative methods and qualitative methods. The quantitative versus qualitative debate is an interesting topic in Sociological studies. In Miles and Huberman’s 1994 book Qualitative Data Analysis‚ quantitative researcher Fred Kerlinger
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Problem Set 1 Gmt 201 Autumn‚ 2010 1. Consider the markets for DVD movies‚ TV screens‚ and tickets at movie theaters. a. For each pair‚ identify whether they are complements or substitutes: • • • DVDs and TV screens DVDs and movie tickets TV screens and movie tickets b. Suppose a technological advance reduces the cost of manufacturing TV screens. Draw a diagram to show what happens in the market for TV screens. c. Draw two more diagrams to show how the change in the market for TV screens affects
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Problem set 2.2 This question Is mainly concentration on the price changed effect. As the price raise ‚what is the changed to the quantity‚ turnover ‚and the market equilibrium. And the assumption are as following: The demand of the concert remain unchanged‚ the supply of the concert also unchanged( which consist on 3 concerts) ‚so the supply curve is vertical. In the question‚ the concert price in 2005 is $500 and all the tickets have been sold out which are 12000seats. The turnover is 12000seats
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Week 3 Problem Set Answer the following questions and solve the following problems in the space provided. When you are done‚ save the file in the format flastname_Week_3_Problem_Set.docx‚ where flastname is your first initial and you last name‚ and submit it to the appropriate dropbox. Chapter 7 (pages 225–228): 1. Your brother wants to borrow $10‚000 from you. He has offered to pay you back $12‚000 in a year. If the cost of capital of this investment opportunity is 10%‚ what is its NPV? Should you
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Econ 136: Financial Economics Problem Set #1 Due Date: September 11‚ 2014 1. The return profile and risk of the S&P 500. In this exercise you will reproduce the graphs presented in class. The goal of this exercise is (i) to expand your datahandling skills‚ (ii) test your understanding of basic probability concepts using real data and (iii) develop an appreciation for the use of replicating a result to ensure that you understand it. Go to Yahoo Finance (finance.yahoo.com) and search for the ticker
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International Finance Problem Set #4 1. A. Fundamental-based Forecasting: Analyzing the future on the basis of fundamental relationships between economic variables and exchange rate. Fixed exchange rates: The forecasting is based on indicators of sustainability such as current account deficits or surpluses‚ relative inflation rates and black market exchange rates. Floating exchange rates: The forecasting is based on factors that could influence macro economy such as monetary policies and
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Problem Sets Chapter 5 A1. (Bond valuation) A $1‚000 face value bond has a remaining maturity of 10 years and a required return of 9%. The bond’s coupon rate is 7.4%. What is the fair value of this bond? Calculating PV factor: i= required return = 9% = 0.09 n= 10 years Using Cash Flow of $1000 to calculate present value‚ Cash flow= $1000 PV factor = 1/(1+i)^n = 0.42241 PV = $1000*0.42241= 422.41 Using Coupon Rate to calculate present value of Annuity Cash flow= $1000 * 7.4/100 =
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