Which of the following statement is correct? Select one:
a. Cultural risk is the risk that foreigners doing business in another country will fail to adapt to cultural differences, and this failure will affect the MNC’s success.
b. All the answers are incorrect.
c. The firm using the hedging instruments such as a forward, futures, or swap contract magnifies the foreign exchange risk.
d. Mexican tourists tend to come to the United States in smaller numbers when the dollar is weakening against the Mexican peso.
e. Expropriation of assets is an example of economic risk.
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Please find the latest values (figures) for the following measures of interest rates in the United States. Please include the source of your information
.
A. The Federal Funds Rate =
B. The Discount Rate =
C. The Prime (lending) Rate =
D. The 90 day U.S. Treasury Bill Rate =
E. The 10 year U.S. Government Bond Rate =
F. The 15 year Fixed Mortgage Rate =
G. The 30 year Fixed Mortgage Rate =
2. What are the definitions of the Prime Lending Rate, the Discount Rate, and the Federal Funds
Rate?
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Grades on a standardized test are known to have a mean of 10901090 for students in the United States. The test is administered to 458458 randomly selected students in Florida; in this sample, the mean is 1104.171104.17 and the standard deviation (s) is 117.72117.72. Another 508508 students are selected at random from Florida. They are given a 3-hour preparation course before the test is administered. Their average test score is 1110.711110.71 with a standard deviation of 103.55103.55. The 95% confidence interval for the change in average test score associated with the prep course is (1101.711101.71, 1119.711119.71). (Round your responses to two decimal
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Critical Thinking Assignment #2
5. Most of the democratic countries of the world have abolished capital punishment-why-what are the arguments against capital punishment? Why do you think the United States still uses execution-what are the arguments in favor of it? If other countries had our crime rate, do you think they would want capital punishment? What are the arguments for and against capital punishment for juveniles. Do we draw the line according to age or severity of crime?
PLEASE WRITE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE!!!
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Which of the following statements is correct?
If a firm is located in a country with a relatively unstable political environment, management will require a lower rate of return on capital projects.
Foreign bonds sold in the United States are called Samurai bonds.
The spot rate is the exchange rate at which one currency can be converted to another immediately.
All the answers are correct.
With the international capital budgeting, the decision to accept international projects with a negative NPV increases the value of the firm and is consistent with the fundamental goal of financial management, which is to maximize the sales.
In: Finance
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The treasurer of a major U.S. firm has $25 million to invest for three months. The interest rate in the United States is .25 percent per month. The interest rate in Great Britain is .30 percent per month. The spot exchange rate is £.625, and the three-month forward rate is £.628. |
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What would be the value of the investment if the money is invested in U.S and Great Britain? (Enter your answers in dollars, not in millions of dollars, and round your answers to 2 decimal places, e.g., 1,234,567.89.) |
| U.S. | $ |
| Great Britain | $ |
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The economies of China and India experienced very rapid growth.
This increases their
citizens’ income and wealth. In turn, these citizens increase their
savings in their country
and also in the United States.
@ When foreign savings enter the US loanable funds market, which
curves if affected — supply
or demand? How is the curve affected?
@ Draw the graph of the US loanable funds market both before and
after the increase in
foreign savings?
@ How does the change in foreign savings affect both investment
and future output in the
US?
Please describe in detail.
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Suppose you have data from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) listing HN rates for all counties in the United States. You want to construct a choropleth map based on these data, and your goal is have about the same number of counties allocated to each of the five categories you plan to have on the map. What classification method are you going to use?
1. quantile breaks
2. natural breaks
3. equal interval based on range
4. equal interval not based on range
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Answer these questions. 1.What is the difference between Minority status and Culture? What is the difference between Western and Eastern culture? What is the difference between a stigma vs misdiagnosing a mental illness? What are 3 norms of etiquette in across cultures? What is somatization? What are three specific types of cultural concepts? What are 3 ways immigrants face when arriving to a United States? What is the difference between acculturation and assimilation? What are some ways you feel like a Nurse is culturally knowledgeable? What is stereotyping?.
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A firm uses skilled labor, unskilled labor, and capital, and is initially in equilibrium. Suppose that the wage paid to unskilled labor falls, and that unskilled labor is a substitute in production with both skilled labor and capital. Depict in separate graphs of (a) capital and unskilled labor and (b) capital and skilled labor how the original equilibrium choices change in response to the decline in wages paid to unskilled workers. What are the expected impacts on the wage and employment level for each group of worker, and why? How does this factor into the growth of inequality in recent decades in the United States?
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