An online shopping website considers offering its customers a mail-in rebate program. By this way, it aims to differentiate between different groups of customers. After the completion of the purchase of a wireless router, consumers can mail a rebate form to receive $ back. In other words, the net price after the rebate is p*-a for those who are interested in the mail-in-rebate. The shopping website is a monopoly with no fixed cost. Its marginal cost is $30.

The Market consists of two different consumer groups whose demand functions are as follows:

The demand of the two groups are as follows;

P1=150-2q1

P2=100-5q2

Assuming that the consumers of group 1 are not interested in rebate forms,

a. What is the optimal rebate amount, which differentiates between different consumer groups?

b. Assume that the firm has enough information about its consumers to implement a perfect price discrimination strategy. Calculate the equilibrium price and quantities and the profit if the firm uses perfect price discrimination. (Do not derive the kinked market demand curve. Simple assume that the market demand is Q=95-07P)

An online shopping website considers offering its customers a mail-in rebate program. By this way, it aims to differentiate between different groups of customers. After the completion of the purchase of a wireless router, consumers can mail a rebate form to receive $ back. In other words, the net price after the rebate is p*-a for those who are interested in the mail-in-rebate. The shopping website is a monopoly with no fixed cost. Its marginal cost is $30.

The Market consists of two different consumer groups whose demand functions are as follows:

The demand of the two groups are as follows;

P1=150-2q1

P2=100-5q2

Assuming that the consumers of group 1 are not interested in rebate forms,

a. What is the optimal rebate amount, which differentiates between different consumer groups?

b. Assume that the firm has enough information about its consumers to implement a perfect price discrimination strategy. Calculate the equilibrium price and quantities and the profit if the firm uses perfect price discrimination. (Do not derive the kinked market demand curve. Simple assume that the market demand is Q=95-07P)

7) If a monopoly charges higher prices to consumers who buy smaller quantities than to consumers who buy larger quantities, then
A) consumer surplus is larger than under single-price monopoly.
B) social welfare is larger than under perfect competition.
C) the monopoly's profits are larger than under single-price monopoly.
D) the monopoly's profits are larger than under perfect price discrimination.

8) Regardless of market structure, all firms
A) consider the actions of rivals.
B) maximize profit by setting marginal revenue equal to marginal cost.
C) produce a differentiated product.
D) have the ability to set price.

9) Two firms sell 100% orange juice in 10-ounce bottles. The juice is only good for one week. The two firms have contracts for all the oranges produced in a large geographic area. Each firm decides how many bottles of juice to produce at the same time. This market is best described with a
A) Bertrand model.
B) Stackelberg model.
C) monopolistic competition model.
D) Cournot model.

Consider the following stock price and shares outstanding information.

1. Compute the beginning and ending values for a price-weighted index and a market-value-weighted index. Assume a base value of 100 and Year 1 as the base period. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to two decimal places.

             PWI_{Year 1}:

             PWI_{Year 2}:

             VWI_{Year 1}:

             VWI_{Year 2}:

2. Compute the percentage change in the value of each index during the year. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to two decimal places.

   Percentage change in PWI:   %

   Percentage change in VWI:   %

3. Compute the percentage change for an unweighted index assuming $1,000 is invested in each stock. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to two decimal places.

     %

For C++

Download the attached program template.

The programs calculates the amount of profit or loss from a stock transaction. Using the values initialized by the program, calculate and print out the following results:

"Total paid for stock"
"Purchase commission "
"Total received for stock"
"Sales commission"
"Amount of profit or loss"

Use the following formulas:

Total_paid = (total purchase price) + purchase_commission;

Total_received = (total sales price) - sales_commission;

profit = Total_received - Total_paid

/*
 * COSC 1337 Programming Fundamentals II
 * Programming Assignment 1
 * 
 */ 

/* 
 * File:   main.cpp
 * Author: <student name>
 *
 * Created on August 7, 2019, 9:50 PM
 */

#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
        const int NUM_SHARES = 100;            // Number of shares of stock
        const double BUY_PRICE = 45.50,        // Price per share when bought
                     SELL_PRICE = 47.92,       // Price per share when sold
                     COMMISSION_PCT = .02;     // % of buy or sell total paid to broker


        // Perform calculations for the purchase;

        // Perform calculations for the sale

        // Display results
        cout << fixed << setprecision(2);

        return 0;
}

How do the two articles below address the dividend discount model and show changes from original estimations to later estimations based on first quarter results? Any analysis of these two articles would be greatly appreciated so I may better understand the DDM.

The first article was written in April of 2018 and the second was written in July 2018.

April 2018 Article: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4166249-mcdonalds-corporation-target-price-147-according-dividend-discount-model

July 2018 Article: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4189029-mcdonalds-current-valuation-view?page=2

Stephens Supply Company (SSC) is growing rapidly. SSC currently pays no dividend, but expects to pay its first dividend two years from today. SSC expects to maintain its current growth rate of 25% annually for the next three years (1 year after beginning to pay dividends), after which SSC expects the growth rate to decrease to 5% annually. If the appropriate discount rate is 12%, then what is the amount of the first dividend that SSC expects to pay? Assume $ 60 price (**need step by step process from start to finish (in excel if possible))

A customer in a grocery store is purchasing three items. Write the pseudo code that will:

• Ask the user to enter the name of the first item purchased. Then ask the user to enter the cost of the first item purchased. Make your program user friendly. If the user says the first item purchased is milk, then ask: “What is the cost of milk.” [This should work no matter what item is entered by the user. I might buy candy rather than milk.]

• Ask the user to enter the name and cost of the second item purchased.

• Ask the user to enter the name and cost of the third item purchased.

• Calculate the amount of sales tax due on the total purchase price. The sales tax rate is 5%.

• Tell the user • The name and price of each item entered

• The total cost of the items purchased • The amount of sales tax due on the total purchase.

• The total amount due from the user [total cost plus sales tax] • Hint: Your first line of code should be: constant real SALES_TAX_RATE = .05;

Structure your code as follows: 1. Declare variables 2. Get user input 3. Do calculations. 4. Output what is required

Idk if its c or c++ but this is an example I have, need it to be written like that

// declare variables
Real totalSales;
Real profits;

// get user input
print "Enter amount of total sales";
totalSales = User Input;

// do calculations
profit = totalSales * .10;

// output
print "Your profit is", profit;

A monopolist faces a demand curve of the form: P = 610 – 0.01Q. The total cost for this monopolist is TC = 2,000,000 + 10Q. Assume there are no externalities of production or consumption of this monopolist’s product.

a) Suppose this monopolist cannot price discriminate. Explain why this monopolist will not produce an output greater than 30,000 units.    

b) Draw a diagram to illustrate this monopolist’s situation. Show the demand, marginal revenue and marginal cost curves, and the profit maximizing price and quantity from part (a).  

c) Suppose now the monopolist discovers it can price discriminate. It wants to sell three batches of output at prices consistent with its demand curve: the first 10,000 units it will sell at the highest price, the second 10,000 units at a lower price, and the third 10,000 units at a price lower still. Show this on your diagram, and calculate how much profit the monopolist will make under this price discrimination scheme.  

d) Suppose the government tried to regulate this monopolist to produce the socially efficient quantity of output. The government promises to subsidise any loss made by the monopolist in achieving the socially efficient quantity. Explain why this subsidy will be equal to $2,000,000

In this problem, we'll write a Python module that defines two things publicly.

• A namedtuple called Student with two fields, scores and grade, intended to carry grade-related information about a student. (This will be part of the output of this problem.) So that we're all in agreement about what that will look like, here it is:

  Student = namedtuple('Student', ['scores', 'grade'])
  

• A function named build_grade_report, which takes two parameters: a Path object describing the path to a file containing the "raw scores" for each student, and the ranges of total scores necessary to achieve each possible grade. (The details of both of these parameters are described in more detail below.)

The inputs

The first parameter to your function is the path to a file containing score information, but the interesting thing about it is the format of that information, which we'll need to agree on. What you'll expect is a text file in which each line of text represents one student's information. The first thing you'll see on each line is the student's UCInetID (i.e., an identifier that's unique for each student); after that will be a sequence of numbers that are separated by at least one space, which are that student's raw scores. Any line of text consisting only of spaces, or any line whose first non-space character is a # is to be ignored. Note that it is possible for a student to have no scores.

The second parameter to your function is a dictionary where the keys are letter grades and the values are tuples specifying the range of total scores that would lead to that letter grade. A tuple containing only one value would mean "The given score or anything higher," while a tuple containing two values would mean "Any score that's greater than or equal to the first of these, but is less than the second of these." For example, if the dictionary looked like this:

{'A': (600, ), 'B': (500, 600), 'C': (400, 500), 'D': (300, 400), 'F': (0, 300)}

then we'd expect any student scoring at least 600 points total would receive a grade of A, any student scoring at least 500 points but less than 600 would receive a B, and so on. Don't assume that the letter grades will always be A, B, C, D, and F, or even that they'll always be a single letter. It is expected that the ranges of scores will not overlap; if they do, your function can output any grade that matches (i.e., if 17 points is either a B or a C, you can return either grade for a student in that case).

The output

Your function will return a dictionary where the keys are the UCInetIDs of students who are listed in the file, and where the corresponding values are Student namedtuples with scores being a list of the student's scores (in the order listed on the corresponding line of the file) and grade being the student's grade.

Note that grades are calculated by determining the sum of all of a student's raw scores (i.e., there is no weighting scheme that makes one assignment worth more than another, which is different from the actual grading formula used in this course) and comparing it to the given grade ranges. If the total score is not in any of the given grade ranges, the student's score should be specified as the Python value None.

If the file cannot be opened or it cannot be read to completion, the function should raise an exception; it's not important what kind of exception it is, but the file should be closed in any circumstance in which it was opened successfully.

An example

Suppose that you had a file called scores.txt in the same directory as your problem3.py file, in which the following text appeared.

# Alex has work to do, but is improving
thornton 30 40 50 60 70 80 90
# Boo is perfect, as usual
boo 100 100 100 100 100 100 100
# Student that submitted no work; total score is 0
didnothing

Here's how your function should behave, given that file.

>>> grade_ranges = {'A': (600, ), 'B': (500, 600), 'C': (400, 500), 'D': (300, 400), 'F': (0, 300)}
>>> build_grade_report(Path('scores.txt'), grade_ranges)
{'thornton': Student(scores=[30.0, 40.0, 50.0, 60.0, 70.0, 80.0, 90.0], grade='C'),
 'boo': Student(scores=[100.0, 100.0, 100.0, 100.0, 100.0, 100.0, 100.0], grade='A'),
 'didnothing': Student(scores=[], grade='F')}