Chapter 1 Answers to End of Chapter Questions 1. Agency Problems of MNCs. a. Explain the agency problem of MNCs. ANSWER: The agency problem reflects a conflict of interests between decision-making managers and the owners of the MNC. Agency costs occur in an effort to assure that managers act in the best interest of the owners. b. Why might agency costs be larger for an MNC than for a purely domestic firm? ANSWER: The agency costs are normally larger for MNCs than purely domestic firms for the following
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Three Problems in the 2000 Presidential Election One of the problems that occurred during the 2000 presidential election was how the news stations called the state of Florida for Al Gore‚ while there are two time zones in the state. On the western side‚ the people still had one whole hour to cast their ballots. Also‚ there was still 12 minutes left on the Eastern side. This caused much confusion‚ and people did not know who to believe. A survey estimated that 15‚000 people did not vote‚ because
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interaction. | | | status: not answered () correct: d your answer: | 2 | According to sociologist C. Wright Mills‚ the ability to see the relationship between individual experiences and the larger society is referred to as: | a. | the reality perception. | | | b. | the sociological imagination. | | | c. | the conflict perception. | | | d. | the symbolic interaction approach. | | | status: not answered () correct: b your answer: | 3 | French philosopher ________ is credited with
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Explain how‚ having lost the popular vote in 2000‚ Bush nevertheless became president. Even though President Bush lost the popular vote in 2000‚ he was still able to win the election because he still had the majority. There are 538 total votes in the Electoral College and a presidential candidate must win a majority of the electoral votes to be elected‚ exactly 270. In 2000 there were a total of 538 electoral votes available with 270 needed to win the election between George Bush and Al Gore. Bush
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leader who is high in both concern for people and concern for production would rate ________. Answer Selected Answer: (9‚9) Correct Answer: (9‚9) • Question 2 1 out of 1 points Recent studies indicate that this measure of ability is the best predictor of who will be a leader in an organisation. Answer Selected Answer: Emotional intelligence. Correct Answer: Emotional intelligence. • Question 3 1 out of 1 points A team ’s ________
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Professor Mumford mumford@purdue.edu Econ 360 - Fall 2012 Problem Set 1 Answers True/False (30 points) 1. FALSE If (ai ‚ bi ) : i = 1‚ 2‚ . . . ‚ n and (xi ‚ yi ) : i = 1‚ 2‚ · · · ‚ n are sets of n pairs of numbers‚ then: n n n (ai xi + bi yi ) = i=1 i=1 ai x i + i=1 bi yi 2. FALSE If xi : i = 1‚ 2‚ . . . ‚ n is a set of n numbers‚ then: n n n n n (xi − x) = ¯ i=1 n i=1 2 x2 i − 2¯ x i=1 xi + i=1 x = ¯ i=1 2 x2 − n¯2 x i where x = ¯ 1 n i=1 xi 3. TRUE If xi : i = 1‚ 2‚ . .
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Homework Chapter 1 4. You win $100 in a basketball pool. You have a choice between spending the money now or putting it away for a year in a bank account that pays 5 percent interest. What is the opportunity cost of spending the 100$ now? Answer: By spending the money right away the opportunity cost is 5 percent of 100 dollars that is 5 dollars plus the 100$ itself. So the total opportunity cost is $105‚- 5. The company that you manage has invested $5 million in developing a new product
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Project Cost Control Tools & Techniques Jason Owens‚ jason@jasonowens.com Scott Burke Matthew Krynovich DJ Mance Last Updated: 1/15/07 Project Cost Control Tools & Techniques Contributors: Introduction Owens‚ Jason‚ jason@jasonowens.com Burke‚ Scott Krynovich‚ Matthew Mance‚ DJ The formatting and minor edits of this document have been updated since its original creation. Contact information for some of the contributing authors has been removed for reasons of privacy
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Pakistan Economic Growth (2000-2010) A: Agriculture: “Agriculture growth rate over the last seven years: Table 1.1: Agriculture Growth (Percent) Year Agriculture Major Crops Minor Crops Livestock Fishery Forestry 2003‐04 2.4 1.7 3.9 2.9 2.0 ‐3.2 2004‐05 6.5 17.7 1.5 2.3
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Comprehension Instruction: What Works by Michael Pressley (2000). Reading is central to learning in school‚ in the workplace and in everyday life. This article talks about skills that increase student understanding of what they read. Reading is often thought of as a hierarchy of skills from processing of individual letters and their associated sounds to word recognition to text-processing competencies (Pressley‚ 2000). Fluid articulation is required for skill comprehension. It began with the sounding
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