The Soviet system of central planning was very successful in which of the following ways?

A.Information technology (IT) advancements

B.Material rewards and upward mobility in their state-owned corporations

C.Markets in the allocation of land and oil

D. Space exploration

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First you should explain the relationship between dividends and stock prices with reference to the dividend discount model. As dividends are of two types i.e. cash dividends and stock dividends, what are the reasons for giving either type of dividends and does giving of such dividends affect the stock price? In your answer also bring in the discussion about dividend yield and dividend payout ratio. Link in your answer a discussion of profits and retained earnings with dividends. Should you buy shares of firms that pay dividends or should you buy growth stocks; are firms that pay high dividends good or those that pay low dividends – why?

Using the IS-MP model with Phillips curve, show why the Fed has limited abilities during bouts of stagflation. For this version of stagflation, assume that there's a supply shock but LaTeX: \tilde{Y}Y ~remains at LaTeX: \tilde{Y} = 0Y ~ = 0 and LaTeX: \piπ is higher after the shock.

Addressing COVID-19 is a pressing health and social concern. To date, many epidemic projections and policies addressing COVID-19 have been designed without seroprevalence1 data to inform epidemic parameters. A study published on April 11 stirred huge public/media/government interest. It measured the seroprevalence of antibodies to SARS-CoV-2, name of the virus causing COVID-19, in Santa Clara County, California.

The study found the population prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in Santa Clara County implies that the infection is much more widespread than indicated by the number of confirmed cases. Based on different scenarios, the population prevalence of COVID-19 in Santa Clara ranged from 2.49% (with 95% CI of 1.80% - 3.17%) to 4.16% (with 95% CI of 2.58% - 5.70%). These prevalence estimates are 50 to 85 times more than the number of cases confirmed by the routine tests. Population prevalence estimates can be used to calibrate epidemic and mortality projections and more importantly can be used as criteria for reopening the economy.

Canada is facing the same pressing health and social concern and there is consensus that our confirmed COVID-19 cases are significantly underestimated due to insufficient tests. Suppose you are designated as a member of the important task force to conduct a similar study in the city of Vaughan, the particularly hard hit city by the COVID-19 outbreak in the GTA. Vaughan’s current confirmed infection rate (from the on-going insufficient tests) is 0.113%. Assume there is a consensus among epidemiologists that the confirmed infection rate of 0.113% is many folds underestimated and the true infection rate might be around 3.5%.

Elaborate on your proposal as a member of the task force. You may choose to discuss random sampling design, sample size (you have the concern of time/money cost if the sample is too big; in the meanwhile, you have the concern of the validity of the estimates if the sample is too small.), hypothesis setting, size of the test or other statistical issues you think to be important for such a medical study. For every aspect of your decision, it is important to communicate the rationale.   
  

There are several popular non-activist monetary proposals that include the following: a constant money growth rate rule, a predetermined money growth rate rule, the Taylor rule, inflation targeting and nominal GDP targeting. Discuss some of the pros and cons of at least three of these aforementioned monetary policy proposals.

This week we are studying monetary policy. There are two major opinions on what the appropriate monetary policy should be: activists argue that monetary policy should be deliberately used to smooth out the business cycle while non-activists argue against discretionary monetary policy. Discuss some of the reasons why the activists favor intervention and the non-activists do not.

COST & PRODUCTION FUNCTIONS

In order to reduce unit cost, the CEO of ABC Corporation has to decide whether to increase or decrease total production. A marketing analyst has reported the following information about ABC Corporation’s cost and production structure:

1.Use Ordinary Least Squares Method (OLS) to estimate the ABC Corporation’s total cost function; that is, TC =β +βQ;

2. What is ABC Co’s marginal cost?

3. What is ABC Co’s fixed cost?

4. Calculate the scale elasticity at the mean of the data

5. In order to reduce the unit cost would you recommend an increase or a decrease in total production? Why?

What national conditions contribute to the success of economic integration? Please explain

Matters of health policy will be debated for as long as there is health for as long as there is policy. Many of these debates will revolve around cost – the cost of care, who we provide it to, how we allocate it, what opportunity costs we accept, and what resources we utilize. What policy areas do you think we, as a society, need to turn our attention to? How would we do it? What would we need to sacrifice in order to achieve it? Who would need to be involved?

Annette Robinson is a sixty-three-year-old recent widow. Annette is attempting to do some tax and investment planning pertaining to her late husband’s traditional IRA account. She is seeking your advice as to the best course of action. She has informed you that her husband was sixty-nine at the time of his death and had not started taking a RMD.

a.What are the three distribution methods available to Annette?

b.Which method should she choose to maximize tax deferral? Based on the appropriate life expectancy table, how much will her first required distribution be? When will this distribution happen?

c.Which method should she choose to maximize the distribution? Based on the appropriate life expectancy table, how much will her first required distribution be? When would this distribution happen?

d.Which alternative would not have been available had her husband begun his required distributions?

e.If Annette had been younger than age fifty-nine, which alternative would have allowed her to take distributions without incurring a tax penalty?

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Describe the financial organizations (Banks/Investment) and the considerations that will influence information security

Define and describe the associated information security policies in a financial organization (e.g. Acceptable Use Policy, Remote Access Policy, Employee Training Policy)

Define and describe the security processes that will be used to implement and enforce this security policy in a financial organization (e.g. Incident Response Process, Risk Assessment Process)

Define and describe the standards that are relevant and will govern the implementation of information security within the financial organization (e.g. NIST, HIPPA).

(a) Let x1 and x2 be normal goods. Graphically, represent the effect of an increase in the price level of x2. Show the Slutsky substitution and income effects on a clearly labelled diagram. (b) On a separate graph, show what would happen if x2 is now a Giffen good. Show the (Slutsky) substitution and income effects clearly and explain which effect outweighs the other. Note: For both parts x1 should be on the x-axis Assume the utility function to be a cobb Douglas function. Please note that you need to draw indifference curves to represent the optimal bundles.