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Are chequing accounts that earn interest preferable to regular chequing accounts? Why or why not?
What is the annual opportunity cost of a chequing account that requires a $350 minimum balance to avoid service charges? Assume an interest rate of 6.5 percent.
Use the time value of money tables in Exhibit 1 8 to calculate the following: a. The future value of $100 at 7 percent in 10 years. b. The future value of $100 a year for 6 years earning 6
What would be the value of a savings account started with $500 earning 3 percent (compounded annually) after 10 years?
Brenda Young desires to have $10,000 eight years from now for her daughter's college fund. If she will earn 7 percent (compounded annually) on her money, what amount should she deposit now? Use the
What amount would you have if you deposit $1,500 a year for 30 years at 8 percent (compounded annually)?
With a 26 percent marginal tax rate, which would give you a better return on your savings, a tax-free yield of 7 percent or a taxable yield of 9.5 percent? Why?
What is the relationship between financial services and overall financial planning?
What are the major categories of financial services?
What financial services are available through electronic banking systems?
Why shouldn't you select financial services on the basis of only monetary factors?
What are the examples of deposit-type financial institutions?
What can you do if your identity is stolen?
What are the main components of personal financial planning?
What should you do to protect your rights if there is a billing error?
How might consumers with credit card debt fare if a cyclical slowdown occurs?
What are the major sources of consumer credit?
What can you learn from a loan amortization schedule?
If the 5% interest rate quoted on Dave's loan had been compounded monthly, what would have been the effective annual interest rate charged on the loan?
Assume Dave borrowed the $500 on his personal line of credit. Interest is charged at a rate of 5%, but calculated on a daily basis. Dave is required to pay a minimum of 5 percent of the remaining
The CLSP has agreed to lend you funds to complete your 3 years bachelors' degree. The government will lend you $2400 today, if you agree to repay the loan 5 years from now with a lump sum payment of
Why do students fall prey to late-payment fees?
How do changing interest rates affect the amount of mortgage a person can afford?
How can the quality of a school system benefit even homeowners in a community who do not have school-age children?
What is the purpose of a financial plan?
What services are available to home buyers from real estate agents?
What are the drawbacks of owning a home?
What are the main sources of funding for a down payment?
How do closing costs affect a person's ability to afford a home purchase?
What actions are recommended when planning to sell your home?
What factors affect the selling price of your home?
You estimate that you can save $3,800 by selling your own home rather than using a real estate agent. What would be the future value of that amount if invested for five years at seven percent?
What type of housing would you suggest for people in the following life situations? a. A single parent with two school-age children. b. A two-income couple without children. c. A person with both
Use the buy versus rent analysis on page 199 to compare two residences that you might consider?
Kelly and Tim Johnson plan to refinance their mortgage to obtain a lower interest rate. They will reduce their mortgage payments by $56 a month. Their closing costs for refinancing will be $1,670.
You have $100,000 to purchase a 20-year annuity at 5 percent. What will be the annual payment from the annuity?
How does a person's employment and household situation influence the selection of housing?
What are some common opportunity costs associated with the selection of housing?
What are the main benefits and drawbacks of renting a place of residence?
What is the TDS ratio?
What are the main coverages included in most automobile insurance policies?
What is no-fault insurance?
What factors influence how much a person pays for automobile insurance?
Beverly and Kyle Nelson currently insure their cars with separate companies paying $450 and $375 a year. If they insured both cars with the same company, they would save 10 percent on the annual
Most home insurance policies cover jewelry and silverware for a limited amount unless items are covered with additional insurance. If $3,500 worth of jewelry and $3,800 worth of silverware were
What amount would a person with actual cash value (ACV) coverage receive for two-year-old furniture destroyed by a fire? The furniture would cost $1,000 to replace today and had an estimated life of
Why do you suppose that corporate cash holdings have decreased slightly since 2015?
For each of the following approaches that an economist might follow in examining a decision- making process, identify whether the approach relies on the rationality assumption or on the assumption of
For each of the following approaches that an economist might follow in examining a decision- making process, identify whether the approach relies on the rationality assumption or on the assumption of
Between 2017 and 2018, a small businessperson's income increased from $200,000 to $220,000. The annual state income taxes that she paid increased from $5,000 to $5,500. What was her average state
Between 2017 and 2018 in a particular nation, the value of the consumer price index-for which the base year is 2014-rose by 9.091 percent, to a value of 120 in 2018. What was the value of the price
Consider the following price indexes: 90 in 2017, 100 in 2018, 110 in 2019, 121 in 2020, and 150 in 2021. Answer the following questions. a. Which year is likely the base year? b. What is the
In the table for Problem 8-14, if 2020 is the base year, what is the price index for 2019? (Round decimal fractions to the nearest tenth)
Explain what happens to the official measure of GDP in each of the following situations. a. Air quality improves significantly throughout the United States, but there are no effects on aggregate
A number of economists contend that official measures of U.S. gross private investment expenditures are understated. For instance, household spending on education, such as college tuition
Suppose that among the 15 million unemployed people in Problem 7-17, currently 6.9 million are frictionally unemployed, 5.9 million are cyclically unemployed, and 2.2 million are structurally
Consider the table below for the economy of a nation whose residents produce five final goods.Assuming a 2017 base year: a. What is nominal GDP for 2017and 2021? b. What is real GDP for 2017 and
In the first stage of manufacturing each final unit of a product, a firm purchases a key input at a price of $4 per unit. The firm then pays a wage rate of $3 for the time that labor is exerted,
Consider the following table for the economy of a nation whose residents produce four final goods.Assuming a 2018 base year: a. What is nominal GDP for 2019 and 2020? b. What is real GDP for 2019
Explain what happens to contributions to GDP in each of the following situations. a. A woman who makes a living charging for investment advice on her Internet Web site marries one of her clients, to
In 2018, a nation's population was 10 million. Its nominal GDP was $40 billion, and its price index was 100. In 2019, its population had increased to 12 million, its nominal GDP had risen to $57.6
Between the start of 2018 and the start of 2019, a country's economic growth rate was 4 percent. Its population did not change during the year, nor did its price level. What was the rate of increase
A nation's per capita real GDP was $2,000 in 2017, and the nation's population was 5 million in that year. Between 2017 and 2018, the inflation rate in this country was 5 percent, and the nation's
It is late 2019, and the U.S. economy is showing signs of slipping into a potentially deep recession. Government policymakers are searching for income-tax-policy changes that will bring about a
Suppose that the Office of Management and Budget provides the estimates of federal budget receipts, federal budget spending, and GDP at the right, all expressed in billions of dollars. Calculate the
The reserve ratio is 11 percent. What is the value of the potential money multiplier?
Suppose that to finance its credit policy, the Fed pays an annual interest rate of 0.5 percent on bank reserves. During the course of the current year, banks hold $1 trillion in reserves. What is the
At a price of $57.50 to play 18 holes on local golf courses, 1,200 consumers pay to play a game of golf each day. A rise in the price to $62.50 causes the number of consumers to decline to 800. What
How do you think that reducing experimental subjects' stress would have affected their price elasticity of demand for alcohol?
In the market for hand-made guitars, when the price of guitars is $800, annual revenues are $640,000. When the price falls to $700, annual revenues decline to $630,000. Over this range of guitar
During the previous month, a firm produced 250 tablet devices at an average variable cost of $40 and at an average fixed cost of $10. What were the firm's total costs during the month?
Just before the firm discussed in Problem 22-4 produced its last tablet device in the previous month, its total costs were $12,425. What was the marginal cost incurred by the firm in producing the
There is an old saying that "two heads are better than one." Why might this saying be more likely to hold true in producing output when the two heads involved are acquainted and have experience with
Suppose that a company based in Dallas, Texas, confronts only four other rival firms. Its own market share is 35 percent, which ties it with the other largest producer and seller in the industry. The
Take a look a Figure 24-6. Suppose that Qm is 9.5 units per week, that Pm is $6.10 per unit and that the average total cost of producing the 9.5 units is $4.26 per unit. What is the dollar amount of
Take a look at both panels of Figure 27-1. Suppose that we are willing to accept both federal regulatory spending per year and the annual number of Federal Register pages as measures of the extent of
If you were a government official, would you rather have to deal with many small businesses or a few large corporations?
Suppose that during a recent year for the United States, the current account balance was -0.5 trillion, and the net acquisitions of financial assets by U.S. residents and government entities was
What happened to the marginal utility derived from food consumption as people responded to lower food prices by purchasing more food?
1. Even though the federal government requires depository institutions to contribute premiums to the FDIC, who ultimately has to provide sufficient funds if the FDIC runs out of cash? 2. Now that
How do you suppose that proponents of the random walk theory for prices of individual shares of stock would respond to the view that the average of stock prices might be predictable? Explain your
In what respect was one of the releases of confidential Fed policy information discussed above more clearly one involving truly insider information than the other information release?
In which of the following situation(s) will owners who supply factors of production be most likely to earn economic rents? a. Highly elastic supply of the factor; highly elastic demand for the
The minimum feasible long-run average cost for firms in a perfectly competitive industry is $40 per unit. If every firm in the industry currently is producing an output consistent with a long-run
Consider the following hypothetical data for the U.S. economy in 2020 (all amounts are in trillions of dollars). Consumption ...................................... 11.0 Indirect business taxes
Consider the following table displaying annual growth rates for nations X, Y, and Z, each of which entered 2017 with real per capita GDP equal to $20,000.a. Which nation most likely experienced a
Suppose that during the past 3 years, equilibrium real GDP in a country rose steadily, from $450 billion to $500 billion, but even though the position of its aggregate demand curve remained
In 2016, the cost of a market basket of goods was $2,000. In 2018, the cost of the same market basket of goods was $2,100. Use the price index formula to calculate the price index for 2018 if 2016 is
Suppose that in 2017, a typical U.S. student attending a state-supported college bought 10 textbooks at a price of $100 per book and enrolled in 25 credit hours of coursework at a price of $360 per
Dow Chemical, a leading chemical manufacturer, announced that it had reached an agreement to acquire in late 2008 Rohm and Haas Company for $15.3 billion. While Dow has competed profitably in the
At a time when natural gas and oil prices were at record levels, oil and natural gas producer, Andarko Petroleum, announced on June 23, 2006 the acquisition of two competitors, Kerr-McGee Corp. and
On September 30, 2000, Mattel, a major toy manufacturer, virtually gave away The Learning Company, a maker of software for toys, to rid itself of a disastrous foray into software publishing that had
In 2000, AOL acquired Time Warner in a deal valued at $160 billion, excluding assumed debt. Time Warner is the world's largest media and entertainment company, whose major business segments include
Using the motives for mergers and acquisitions described in Chapter 1, which do you think apply to Microsoft's acquisition of Nokia? Discuss the logic underlying each motive you identify. Be specific.
Speculate as to why Microsoft and Nokia initially decided to form a partnership rather than have Microsoft simply acquire Nokia? Why was the partnership unsuccessful?
Speculate as to why Microsoft used cash rather than some other form of payment to acquire Nokia?
The Nokia takeover is an example of vertical integration. How does vertical integration differ from horizontal integration? How are the two businesses (software and hardware) the same and how are
What are the critical assumptions that Microsoft is making in buying Nokia? Do you believe these assumptions are realistic? Explain your answer.
What factors do U.S. antitrust regulators consider before challenging a merger or acquisition?
What are the obligations of the acquirer and target firms according to Section 14(d) of the Williams Act?

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