1. What is the impact of a business cycle recession on the interest rate? Show graphically using S and D for bonds and using Liquidity preference framework. How are the results different?

Consider the random experiment of tossing two fair dice and recording the up faces. Let X be the sum of the two dice, and let Y be the absolute value of the difference of the two dice.

1.Compute the skewness coefficient and kurtosis of the distribution of X and Y.

2. For each of x=4,5,6 from the sample space of X do the following:

Construct the pff of the conditional distribution of X given Y = y

Compute the mean variance SD skewness coefficient snd kurtosis of the conditional distribution of Y given X = x. Are they distributional characteristics constant, or do they depend upon x?

Write a Java program called Numbers that reads a file containing a list of numbers and outputs, for each number in the list, the next bigger number. For example, if the list is

78, 22, 56, 99, 12, 14, 17, 15, 1, 144, 37, 23, 47, 88, 3, 19

the output should look like the following:

78: 88

22: 23

56: 78

99: 144

12: 14

14: 15

17: 19

15: 17

1: 3

144: 2147483647

37: 47

23: 37

47: 56

88: 99

3: 12

19: 22

NOTE: If there is no bigger number in the sequence, just display the value of Integer.MAX_VALUE .

The output should be shown on the screen and also saved in a file.

Program Design

• You should have a single class called Numbers.
• You should have a static method called nextLargest, which takes as input an array of integers called list and another single integer called value. It should return the number that is the next larger than the value in the list (as described above). You need to use this method to implement your program.
• The input file from which the list is read should be called "list.txt". Assume it's in the current directory.
• The output file to which the results should be saved should be called "nextlist.txt". Save it in the current directory (i.e. don't specify the path).

Additional Requirements

1. The name of your Java Class that contains the main method should be Numbers. All your code should be within a single file.
2. Your code should follow good coding practices, including good use of whitespace (indents and line breaks) and use of both inline and block comments.
3. You need to use meaningful identifier names that conform to standard Java naming conventions.
4. At the top of the file, you need to put in a block comment with the following information: your name, date, course name, semester, and assignment name.
5. If the input file contains something not in the proper format, your program should handle this gracefully by displaying an appropriate message to the user and closing the program (without letting it crash).

The output of your program should exactly match the sample program output given at the end

Use the monopolistic competition model to analyze the potential effects of trade
(importing and exporting) on the pharmaceutical industry. (hint: highlight the tradeoffs).

1. In the collusion game, we found that collusion was only sustainable in the infinite horizon repeated game. One Nash Equilibrium of that game can be found when all players play a “grim trigger” strategy, where they collude until an opponent chooses to compete, and then compete for all future rounds as a punishment. In such a game, if the one period bonus that comes from competing is low enough, firms always collude and the punishment is never triggered. However, let’s think a little deeper about this Nash Equilibrium. Is the punishment (vowing to compete forever after one deviates) realistic, especially if firms can communicate freely? Why or why not? (Hint: Is a grim trigger Nash Equilibrium a Subgame Perfect Nash Equilibrium? What kinds of Nash Equilibria does Subgame Perfection rule out in sequential games?)

(10) Let L = { <D> | D is a DFA that accepts s^R whenever it accepts s } . Show that L is Turing-decidable.

Department S had 600 units 65% completed in process at the beginning of the period; 8,700 units completed during the period; and 1,000 units 53% completed at the end of the period. What was the number of equivalent units of production for the period for conversion if the first-in, first-out method is used to cost inventories? Assume the completion percentage applies to both direct materials and conversion cost.

a.8,100

b.8,310

c.8,840

d.9,840

15.

Department G had 3,600 units 25% completed at the beginning of the period, 11,000 units were completed during the period; 3,000 units were 20% completed at the end of the period, and the following manufacturing costs debited to the departmental work in process account during the period:

All direct materials are placed in process at the beginning of production and the first-in, first-out method of inventory costing is used. What is the total cost of 3,600 units of beginning inventory which were completed during the period (round unit cost calculations to four decimal places)?

a.$16,163

b.$62,206

c.$19,275

d.$40,000

17.

Carmelita Inc., has the following information available:

At the beginning of the period, there were 500 units in process that were 42% complete as to conversion costs and 100% complete as to direct materials costs. During the period, 5,500 units were started and completed. Ending inventory contained 400 units that were 30% complete as to conversion costs and 100% complete as to materials costs. The company uses the FIFO process cost method.

The cost of completing a unit during the current period was

a.$45.37

b.$26.36

c.$30.24

d.$36.29

The debits to Work in Process—Assembly Department for May, together with data concerning production, are as follows:

19. All direct materials are placed in process at the beginning of the process and the first-in, first-out method is used to cost inventories. The materials cost per equivalent unit for May is

a.$3.48

b.$2.20

c.$4.23

d.$2.53

25.

Mocha Company manufactures a single product by a continuous process, involving three production departments. The records indicate that direct materials, direct labor, and applied factory overhead for Department 1 were $100,000, $125,000, and $150,000, respectively. The records further indicate that direct materials, direct labor, and applied factory overhead for Department 2 were $50,000, $60,000, and $70,000, respectively. Department 2 has transferred-in costs of $390,000 for the current period. In addition, work in process at the beginning of the period for Department 2 totaled $75,000, and work in process at the end of the period totaled $90,000. The journal entry to record the flow of costs into Department 3 during the period is

a.

Work in Process—Department 3555,000

Work in Process—Department 2555,000

b.

Work in Process—Department 3375,000

Work in Process—Department 2375,000

c.

Work in Process—Department 3490,000

Work in Process—Department 2490,000

d.

Work in Process—Department 3570,000

Work in Process—Department 2570,000

29. If a department that applies FIFO process costing starts the reporting period with 50,000 physical units that were 25% complete with respect to direct materials and 40% complete with respect to conversion, it must add 12,500 equivalent units of direct materials and 20,000 equivalent units to direct labor to complete them.

True or False

30. Carmelita Inc., has the following information available:

At the beginning of the period, there were 500 units in process that were 60% complete as to conversion costs and 100% complete as to direct materials costs. During the period, 4,500 units were started and completed. Ending inventory contained 340 units that were 30% complete as to conversion costs and 100% complete as to materials costs. The company uses the FIFO process cost method.

The equivalent units of production for direct materials and conversion costs, respectively, were

a.4,602 for direct materials and 4,802 for conversion costs

b.4,902 for direct materials and 4,802 for conversion costs

c.4,840 for direct materials and 4,802 for conversion costs

d.5,340 for direct materials and 4,902 for conversion costs

The rise of MBS, mortgage-backed securities, and other somewhat complex financial instruments is thought to be one the primary causes behind the Global Financial Crisis and the Great Recession following the crisis. Describe what securitization means and how incentives of all participants (i.e. borrowers, local banks, national banks, investment banks, insurers) led to the incredible rise of MBS in the leadup to the crisis.

Discussion Topics:
Assume that you have a Saudi league player database. In this database, you have a table containing players’ attributes such as (Name, age, position, etc.) and you decided to add information about players’ agents. Would you represent the agent information as attributes in the player table or would you create an entity set for players’ agents? Justify your answer.   

Note: Provide answers in your own words.

What do you think the future of health policy will look like in the U.S.?

A 450-turn solenoid, 26 cm long, has a diameter of 2.1 cm . A 12-turn coil is wound tightly around the center of the solenoid.

If the current in the solenoid increases uniformly from 0 to 4.7 A in 0.57 s , what will be the induced emf in the short coil during this time?

Consider a file with a large number of Person(id, name, birth-date) records. Assume that users frequently search this file based on a the field id to find the values of name or birthdate for people whose information is stored in the file. Moreover, assume that users rarely update current records or insert new records to the file. Which file structure, heap versus sorted, provides the fastest total running time for users’ queries over this file? Explain your answer.

Abby:

Firstly, I’d like to welcome everyone to this very important strategy meeting. As you should know, the purpose of today’s meeting is to agree a clear direction for our continued growth. We are faced with a number of growth choices. Bianca, could you please outline the first option?

Bianca:

Certainly – the first option is to expand the product range of our pretzels – to introduce different flavor pretzels and in various size packaging. This appears to be a suitable direction when you consider the chip/crisp market. There has been a significant increase in chip/crisp flavors in recent years. This means that consumers clearly like variety.

Corey:         

I can understand your point, but my concern is the limited size of the pretzel market, whereas the chip market is huge. I mean, if you bring out, say ham and cheese flavored chips, then even with a small market share, you will probably still do all right. But you can’t do the same thing in the pretzel market – because you’ll simply end up with a small share of a small market, which would simply not be viable.

David:            

I’ll have to agree. That’s why I think that we should be looking to leverage our brand into other product categories. What about ‘Presto Nuts’ or “Presto Crackers’ or even “Presto Chips”? This strategy makes a lot of sense as our own market research shows that ‘Presto’ is becoming a strong brand.

Ellie:               

Yes sure, the brand has value, but it’s clearly associated with pretzels in the mind of the consumer. Our research also says that the brand owns the pretzel market. When consumers think pretzels, they think Presto. I would be very concerned that leveraging the brand into other product categories would dilute the value of the brand.

Fiona:

I share the same concerns as Ellie. And also remember that we initially chose the name ‘Presto’ because it sounded good with pretzels – you know ‘Presto Pretzels’. For me, ‘Presto Nuts’ or “Presto Crackers’ doesn’t have the same impact. But David did highlight some attractive markets – maybe we should consider entering those product categories, but under a different brand?

Graham:

Actually, I have been thinking about that. We already have the capabilities in the production of snack food and we also have established relationships with the key retailers. It would make sense to look at nuts or snack biscuits. And if we don’t want to use the Presto brand, we could simply name it something else.

Heath:

That might work. But it’s taken us a long time to build the Presto brand. I’m not sure whether there are enough marketing funds available to support the building of another brand.

Isabella:

Plus there is no guarantee that our existing retailers are looking for another nut, cracker, or chip brand to sell in their stores. Part of the reason we were successful in getting into retailers was that there wasn’t a lot of other pretzel manufacturers that could supply nationally in the quantities required.

Jade:

That was true in the beginning. But we’ve done a lot to grow the pretzel market in Australia. Therefore, it’s only a matter of time before we have a lot more competition in this market. That’s why I’m proposing that we introduce another pretzel brand to compete against Presto. I think that would dissuade some competitors from entering the market (if they think it’s too competitive).

Kevin:

That’s a good idea, but we also run the risk of cannibalization, where the new brand simply steals the sales from Presto. We could end up doing twice the work for the same sales result.

Luke:

And another concern is that a second brand might signal to potential competitors that this is becoming an attractive market (because new players are entering it). So there’s a chance that instead of reducing competition, this approach might actually increase it.

QUESTIONS

1. Classify the major viewpoints above, into the categories of:

• Line extensions ( i want names from above)
• Brand extensions ( i want names from above)
• Multi-brands ( i want names from above)
• New brands ( i want names from above)

a uniform 163 kg, 6m beam is held at rest by a vertical post s=2 m from its right end, and a vertical cable attached to its right end. A 92 kg man stands at the left end of the beam, d= 4m from the post.

a. create a complete FBD for the beam.

b. if we choose the piont where the post contacts the beam as axis for the purpose of calculating torques acting on the beam, which one of the forces in your FBD will generate no torque at all? Explain.

c. Identify the forces in your FBD that generate clockwise torques about this axis:

d. write a N2L expression relating the torques acting on the beam, only using symbols and assuming the beam is in quilibrium.

e. solve our N2L expression and calculate the tension in the cable.