Problem Set 4 1. What determines whether a financial asset is included in the M1 money supply? Why are interest-earning checkable deposits included in M1‚ whereas interest-earning savings accounts and Treasury bills are not? a. Any financial asset that can be easily changed into physical money is included in the M1 money supply. b. Because checkable deposits are easily changed into physical money‚ they are included in M1; however‚ savings accounts and Treasury bills cannot be‚ due to the fact that
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University of Hong Kong 1st semester 2014-15 ECON0301/ECON2252 Theory of International Trade Problem Set 1 Due time: 5pm September 26‚ 2014 (Friday) Answer all of the following questions. While I encourage you to discuss with your classmates‚ you have to write up your own script. Please hand it in to your TA (Miss Jiuqi Zhao) by the due time via her pageon box on the 9th ‡oor of K.K. Leung Building. 1. Suppose that Home and Foreign have the marginal product of labor shown below. Home Foreign Baseball
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Problem Set 3 for Group 3 ZHAO XUAN 13103465D CHAN YUET CHING 13087084D ZHOU YONG MEI 13102452D Question 1 Exporting used batteries to Mexico Lead US High standard Mexico Weak law and control $0.05 per pound $0.42 per pound Business ethics the accepted principles of right or wrong gov erning the conduct of individuals engaged in business activities 1 (a) Are US companies that export used batteries to Mexico and follow local regulations in their acting in a socially and ethically
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the reasons for sampling. Give an example of each reason for sampling. 1. Contacting whole population is time consuming. If the population is California residents‚ it will take a long time to send everyone a survey and then process the results. 2. Contacting whole population is costly. Same example of California residents‚ it will be very costly to send by mail a survey to all residents and then process millions of responses. 3. Checking all population is physically impossible. If the population
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Problem Set 1 Name: Christen Brown Problem Set 1 is to be completed by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Monday of Module/Week 2. 1. Based on the information provided for the market for video games‚ answer the following questions. PRICE Q DEMANDED Q SUPPLIED $50 5 9 $45 7 7 $40 9 5 $35 11 3 $30 13 1 a.) Draw and properly label the demand and supply graphs (this means you must label the axes and any lines you include on the graph). b.) What is the equilibrium price and quantity? a.) b.) PRICE: $45.00
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Emotional and Sexual Infidelity Liberty University ABSTRACT There are many ways in which infidelity can be explained depending on what you are reading or with whom you are speaking. Emotional and sexual infidelity is the two most studied forms of infidelity. The cognitive approach to infidelity explains that as our cognition is developing‚ we are also indirectly learning behaviors that could contribute to infidelity as adults. Infidelity no matter what the circumstances are surrounding it
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Text Problem Sets 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? Number of years (N) = 10‚ future value (FV) = 1000‚ interest rate (I/YR) = 9 0.074 * 1000 = 74 = PMT or annual payment‚ I then pressed CPT on my financial calculator to compute the price of the bond and then pressed PV or present value. The fair value of the bond is $897.32. Using Cash Flow of
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CS578/STAT590: Introduction to Machine Learning Fall 2014 Problem Set 1 Joon Hee Choi Handed In: 09/14/2014 Review Questions 1. 2. 3. • ∂f ∂x = 6x − y − 11‚ ∂f ∂y • ∂f ∂x = 6x − y − 11 = 0‚ = 2y − x ∂f ∂y = 2y − x = 0 ⇒ x = 2‚ y = 1 ⇒ (x‚ y) = (2‚ 1) • (a) n = 2 w1 x1 and x = . Then‚ w2 x2 wT x + b = w1 x1 + w2 x2 + b = 0 ⇒ −x1b + Let w = w1 x2 − wb =1 2 (b) n = 3 w1 x1 Let w = w2 and x = x2 . Then‚ w3 x3 T w x + b = w1 x1 + w2 x2 + w3 x3 + b = 0 ⇒ −x1b + −x2b
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PROBLEM SET 4 1) Consider the following utility functions‚ where W is wealth: (a) U (W ) = W 2 1 (b) U (W ) = W (c) U (W ) = −W (d) U (W ) = W (e) U (W ) = ln(W ) (f) U (W ) = W 1−γ ‚ with γ = 2 1−γ How likely are each of these functions to represent actual investor preferences? Why? 2) Suppose investors have preference described by the following utility function with A > 0: U = E(r) − 1 Aσ 2 2 Each investor has to choose between three portfolios with the following characteristics:
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Problem Set 1 Problem 1 Which project should the firm select? Why? Project B: Managers should try to maximize their stock’s intrinsic value while also bringing in revenue. The P/E ratio shows the dollar amount investors will pay for $1 of current earnings. Problem 2 If most investors expect the same cash flows from Companies A and B but are more confident that A’s cash flows will be closer to their expected value‚ which company should have the higher stock price? Explain. The primary
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