Describe how the following transactions would affect U.S. exports, imports, and net exports:

1. Students in Prague flock to see the latest movie from Hollywood.
2. Mrs. Jones in Philadelphia buys a new Volvo.
3. The student bookstore at Oxford University in England sells a copy of a U.S. printed/authored textbook
4. A Canadian citizen shops at a store in northern Vermont to avoid Canadian sales taxes.
5. An American art professor spends the summer touring museums in Europe.

1.Rollins Corporation is estimating its WACC. Its target capital structure is 20 percent debt, 20 percent preferred stock, and 60 percent common equity. Rollins' beta is 1.6 , the risk-free rate is 3 percent, and the market risk premium is 5 percent. Rollins is a constant-growth firm which just paid a dividend of $2.00, sells for $ 29 per share, and has a growth rate of 4 percent. The firm's policy is to use a risk premium of 3 percentage points when using the bond-yield-plus-risk-premium method to find r_s. The firm's marginal tax rate is 33 percent.
What is Rollins cost of equity when using the CAPM approach? Express your answer in percentage (without the % sign) and round it to two decimal places.

2.A company's balance sheets show a total of $ 25 million long-term debt with a coupon rate of 12 percent. The yield to maturity on this debt is 8.72 percent, and the debt has a total current market value of $ 32 million. The balance sheets also show that that the company has 10 million shares of stock; the total of common stock and retained earnings is $30 million. The current stock price is $7.5 per share. The current return required by stockholders, r_s, is 12 percent. The company has a target capital structure of 40 percent debt and 60 percent equity. The tax rate is 40%. What weighted average cost of capital should you use to evaluate potential projects? Express your answer in percentage (without the % sign) and round it to two decimal places.

How can opportunity cost affect a college student? Give examples.

3. A stock produced returns of 4.6 percent, 11.9 percent, -23.2 percent, 0.9 percent, and 16.7 percent over the past five years. What is the geometric average return on this stock for this time period? a. 11.17 percent b. 1.14 percent c. 0.74 percent d. 1.43 percent e. 5.28 percent

4. A stock had an average return of 13.7 percent compared to an average return on U.S. Treasury bills of 3.8 percent for the same time period. What is the equity risk premium on this stock? a. 17.50 percent b. 13.70 percent c. 3.61 percent d. 9.90 percent e. 7.73 percent

6. Bugatti, Inc is expected to pay a dividend of $2.40 next year and its current stock price is $48. The discount rate for the company is 11%. If the market expects Bugatti’s dividends to grow at a constant rate forever, then the growth rate must be _____% a. 5 b. 6 c. 7 d. 8 e. 9 16.

16. What is the current price of a share of stock that is expected to pay a dividend (i.e., D1) of $4.10 per share exactly one year from today, if the expected growth rate in the company’s earnings and dividends is expected to be 4.6% per year forever and the required rate of return for the stock is 16%?

17. What is the required rate of return (assuming equilibrium) of a share of stock that just paid a dividend (i.e., D0) of $0.75 per share, assuming that all future dividends are expected to grow at a rate of 4.2 percent per year forever? The stock currently sells for $24.18 per share.

18. What is the constant growth rate in the dividends (forever) of a share of stock that currently sells for $230.44, if the dividend just paid (i.e., D0) equals $22.10 and the required rate of return for the stock is 18.8%?

How does migration contribute to development? You are to analyse either and/or Immigration and Emigration.

A large cooperation has quality control over its fertilizers. The fertilizes are composed of nitrogen. The fertilizer requires 3 mg of nitrogen. The distribution of the percentage of nitrogen is unknown with a mean of 2.5 mg and a standard deviation of 0.1. A specialist randomly checked 100 fertilizer samples.

What is the probability that the mean of the sample of 100 fertilizers less than 2 mg?

In 2000 words comapre and contrast the views of two economic schools of thought the neo classics and marxians and discuss how relevant their ideas and theories are in todays world

uranium-235 is used in a nuclear power plant as fuel source because

Suppose Juanita is choosing how to allocate her portfolio between two asset classes: risk-free government bonds and a risky group of diversified stocks. The following table shows the risk and return associated with different combinations of stocks and bonds.

If Juanita reduces her portfolio's exposure to risk by opting for a smaller share of stocks, he must also accept a (higher/lower) average annual return.

Suppose Juanita currently allocates 25% of her portfolio to a diversified group of stocks and 75% of her portfolio to risk-free bonds; that is, she chooses combination B. She wants to increase the average annual return on her portfolio from 2% to 4%. In order to do so, she must do which of the following? Check all that apply.

-Accept more risk

-Sell some of her stocks and use the proceeds to purchase bonds

-Sell some of her stocks and place the proceeds in a savings account

-Sell some of her bonds and use the proceeds to purchase stocks

The table uses the standard deviation of the portfolio's return as a measure of risk. A normal random variable, such as a portfolio's return, stays within two standard deviations of its average approximately 95% of the time.

Suppose Juanita modifies her portfolio to contain 50% diversified stocks and 50% risk-free government bonds; that is, she chooses combination C. The average annual return for this type of portfolio is 3%, but given the standard deviation of 10%, the returns will typically (about 95% of the time) vary from a gain of _____ to a loss of _____ .

1. Explain and show how the full Keynesian sticky wage model is built. What are the main relationships? Explain briefly what each curve depicts.

2. Imagine that the economy starts off in a situation where the labor market clears. The economy is hit by a shock that reduces consumption demand temporarily. (See e.g. Figure 3.) Show the effects of the shock using graphs. Explain every shift of a curve. What are the effects on the interest rate, consumption, investment, output, the price level, the real wage and employment?

3. Do these effects fit the business cycle facts?

4. What would happen if the nominal wage adjusted in response to the shock? (Assume for this that wage adjustment is faster than the return of consumption demand to its initial level, i.e. maintain consumption demand at its low level induced by the shock here).

5. Using graphs, illustrate how fiscal policy could be used to counteract the effect of the shock. (Assume that the nominal wage remains at its initial level.)

6. Show, using graphs, the effects of the same shock in an economy where the nominal wage is flexible. How do the interest rate, output, the price level, the real wage and employment change?

7. How do these changes compare to those in a) the short run and b) the long run of the Keynesian model?

for certain rainfall data, the standard deviation Sx = 3.4 mm. If the Normal distribution was used and the 10 year rain x10 = 34.1 mm, then the 2 year rain x2 is:

6.82 mm

29.74 mm

31.72 mm

38.18 mm

(7)The average price of regular unleaded gasoline in Arlington County should be about $1.10. This statement is an example of:

(a)A normative statement

(b)A positive statement

(c)A statement of the fallacy of composition

(d)A deductive statement

(8)If there is an inverse relationship between inflation and unemployment in the economy of a city, it would be correct to conclude that:

(a)There is a positive relationship between inflation and unemployment in the city’s economy

(b)There is a horizontal relationship between inflation and unemployment in the city’s economy

(c)A decrease in inflation leads to an increase in unemployment and vice versa in the city’s economy

(d)A decrease in inflation leads to a decrease in unemployment and vice versa in the city’s economy

(9)The shortage of resources in markets is another way to describe the scarcity of resources in the world is:

(a)A true statement

(b)A false statement

(c)(a) or (b) above

(d)None of the above

(10)The decision of cattle ranchers to supply 1,000,000 lbs. of steak to local markets on a monthly basis in order to satisfy their clients’ consumption needs is in keeping with which of the following questions:

(a)How to produce steak?

(b)Where to produce steak?

(c)When to produce steak?

(d)None of the above

                                                              Table#1-Supply of Coffee Beans

(11)The data for the price and quantity supplied of coffee beans in Table#1 above demonstrate a (an) -------------------------------------------------relationship.

(a)Vertical

(b)Inverse

(c)Direct

(d)Horizontal

(12)The largest expenditure component of US GDP in any given year is:

(a)Net exports

(b)Consumption

(c)Gross investment

(d)None of the above

                              Table#2-Disposable Income, Consumption and Savings Data

(13)Which of the following is consumption spending for the household in Table#2 above when saving is -$1200?

(a)$13,300

(b)$16,700                  

(c)More information needed

(d)None of the above

Choose a company and share their mission and vision. Write a one-page analysis of how the company is implementing the mission and vision in the business.

1. Indicate whether you think the variable is better measured as self-report or with an observation.

2.   Indicate why the variable is better measured the way you indicated in

3.   Provide an exact operationalization of how you would measure the variable (either write a self-report question or describe precisely how you would observe the behavior).

a) A political psychologist wishes to measure the percentage of people who vote in elections in a certain rural area.

b)A psychology student wants to measure how often people send text messages while driving in a local neighborhood.

c)A relationships researcher wants to measure how much jealousy women feel in their relationships with their partners.

Measured as self-report or observation?

Why?

Operationalization: