Contrast the values of leadership and followership for innovation. Choose a unique industry and describe two dynamic examples for innovation.

With the outbreak of COVID-19, many people in Hong Kong choose cooking at home instead of dining out to reduce the chance of contacting Coronavirus. At the same time, it is observed that many restaurants have closed down. Given that many restaurants cut their menu prices in this period, explain, with the aid of a supply-and-demand diagram, how the above changes affect the market for dining out meals in restaurants.

A chemist started to carry out column chromatography on a Friday afternoon, got to the point at which the two compounds being separated were about three-fourths of the way down the column. The stopcock was closed and the column capped so that no solvent was lost. On Monday, when she returns to continue the elution, do you think she can separate the two compounds? Explain your answer

closed

1. The following questions refer to options on SNAP (Ticker: SNAP), which closed today at $22.59/share.  Below are a table of closing prices on SNAP options on 8/31/2020:

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Strike              Expiration                   Calls                Puts________

20                    October, 2020                        $3.30               $0.71

21                    October, 2020                        $2.61               $1.04

22                    October, 2020                        $2.04               $1.44

23                    October, 2020                        $1.55               $1.95

24                    October, 2020                        $1.15               $2.54

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1. Which of these options are in-the-money?
2. Suppose you think that the price is unlikely to remain above $23 during the next month so you write a call with a strike of $23.  Create a table of values of your call position as a function of the price of SNAP at the expiration of the option position.  Use share prices in intervals of $0.25 in the range from $20 to $25.
3. What if instead of the call you purchased a put with a strike of $23.  Create a similar table of values as in (b).  
4. Plot the values depicted in your tables from parts (b) and (c)
5. Suppose instead that you are bullish on SNAP stock and decide to buy calls with a strike of $22.  Give a table of values of your spread as a function of the underlying stock of SNAP at the expiration date of the option, and finally, plot the payout as a function of the underlying stock price at expiration.

Which of the following adoption categories often includes individuals who are well respected or who hold central positions in their community, meaning that their broad influence helps an innovation start to take off and spread through a social system?

Opinion leaders tend to be early adopters and are often the first to adopt
an innovation.

True

False

What does the S-shaped curve associated with Diffusion of Innovation Theory depict?

Which of the following describes a potential communication channel as defined by Diffusion of Innovations Theory?

Year

               Technology          Energy

2000:          -24.31            30.47

2001:          -38.55           -12.49

2002:          -36.89           -11.61

2003:           68.59            27.84

2004:         -9.98            35.94

2005:          17.81             70.70

2006:          3.79               -2.12

2007:          -3.13              29.30

2008:        -42.51           -48.25

2009:        79.03              40.13

2010:        45.03           34.25

2011:         -12.21          -8.76

what I have to find. There are 2 data FUNDS in the file: Technology and Energy.

1) For each fund, compute using Excel: the Average, Median, Mode, the first percentile, the third percentile.

2) Graph the Box-Plot for each fund (called Box and Whisker in Excel).

3) For each fund, compute using Excel: the Range, Mean Absolute Deviation, the variance, the standard deviation and the coefficient of variation.

4) Using Excel, compute the Sharpe-Ratio for each fund using the risk free return of 3%. 5) Using Excel, compute the correlation between both funds.