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Define four important dates that arise with respect to dividend payments.
What obvious question arises when we examine historical patterns in aggregate dividend payouts?
What obvious question arises when we examine cross-sectional patterns in the dividend payouts of individual companies?
Reconcile the predictions of M&M with Gordon's arguments about dividend policy.
Explain the "bird in the hand" argument about dividends.
What does real-world evidence imply about how firms manage their dividend payments?
Susan is the second-highest-paid executive for Sanibel Corporation, a publicly traded corporation. Her salary is $1,600,000.
Explain why dividend policy will be relevant in the presence of transactions costs, informational asymmetry and agency problems, and taxes.
Describe split shares, and explain what their popularity implies about investor preferences for dividends in the real world.
Why can share repurchases be viewed as an alternative to paying a cash dividend?
Why do firms hold cash?
What are the four C's of credit?
What is an aged accounts receivable report?
Why is trade credit different from bank credit?
What is the cost of 3/15 net 60 trade credit?
Why do securitizations require credit enhancements?
What is the relationship between FVIFs and PVIFs? Why does this make sense?
Virginia is the president and founder of VT Corporation. She is extremely devoted to the business, frequently working 70-hour weeks. She did not take any salary from the business for its first two
What is finance?
Distinguish among the various types of financial assets.
Which sector or sectors of the economy are net providers of financing and which are the net users of financing?
What role does the board of directors serve?
What are the two key topics covered in the study of corporate finance?
Why would firms prefer to receive dividend income and make interest payments rather than make dividend payments and receive interest payments?
What form of investment income has the highest tax rate in Canada?
Who prescribes GAAP for U.S. companies?
Why does simple interest take into account the time value of money?
Define "perpetuity".
Do you believe that a progressive, proportional, or regressive tax is the most fair? Explain your answer.
Explain how to evaluate a growing perpetuity.
Why can effective rates often be very different from quoted rates?
Why is a 6 percent U.S. mortgage not the same as a 6 percent Canadian mortgage?
Explain how timelines can be used to break a complicated time value of money problem into manageable components.
The Fed is the most independent of all U.S. government agencies. What is the main difference between it and other government agencies that explains the Fed's greater independence?
Unlike commercial banks, savings and loans, and mutual savings banks, credit unions did not have restrictions on setting up branches in other states. Why, then, are credit unions typically smaller
What is the yield to maturity on a $1,000-face-value discount bond maturing in one year that sells for $800?
What is the primary tool that Congress uses to exercise some control over the Fed?
If the yield curve suddenly became steeper, how would you revise your predictions of interest rates in the future?
Suppose you visit with a financial adviser, and you are considering investing some of your wealth in one of three investment portfolios: stocks, bonds, or commodities. Your financial adviser provides
Do you agree with people who say that bribery may be justified to grease the wheels so that business can be done in some countries?
Victor has the full-time use of a company owned Jaguar automobile. This year Victor drove 24,000 miles for business and 10,000 personal miles. His employer does not require him to report his personal
To avoid insolvency, regulators decide to provide the bank with $25 million in bank capital. However, the bad news about the mortgages is featured in the local newspaper, causing a bank run. As a
Compute the price of a share of stock that pays a $1 per year dividend and that you expect to be able to sell in one year for $20, assuming you require a 15% return.
Suppose you have just inherited $10,000 and are considering the following options for investing the money to maximize your return:• Option 1: Put the money in an interest-bearing checking account
Property taxes in a particular district are 4% of the purchase price of a home every year. If you just purchased a $250,000 home, what is the present value of all the future property tax payments?
The table below shows current and expected future one-year interest rates, as well as current interest rates on multiyear bonds. Use the table to calculate the liquidity premium for each multiyear
After careful analysis, you have determined that a firm's dividends should grow at 7%, on average, in the foreseeable future. The firm's last dividend was $3. Compute the current price of this stock,
The current price of a stock is $65.88. If dividends are expected to be $1 per share for the next five years, and the required return is 10%, then what should the price of the stock be in 5 years
How could the approval of international banking facilities (IBFs) by the Fed in 1981 have reduced employment in the banking industry in Europe?
Why did the Bank of England up until 1997 have a low degree of independence?
If the Fed reduces reserves by selling $5 million worth of bonds to the banks, what will the T-account of the banking system look like when the banking system is in equilibrium? What will have
In February, Margaret's employer asked her to move from the Miami office to the Atlanta office. In March, Margaret spent $900 on a house-hunting trip to Atlanta. She located a home and moved into it
Suppose that currency in circulation is $600 billion, the amount of checkable deposits is $900 billion, and excess reserves are $15 billion.a. Calculate the money supply, the currency deposit ratio,
If the Fed lends five banks a total of $100 million but depositors withdraw $50 million and hold it as currency, what happens to reserves and the monetary base? Use T-accounts to explain your answer.
Since monetary policy changes made through the fed funds rate occur with a lag, policymakers are usually more concerned with adjusting policy according to changes in the forecasted or expected
A German sports car is selling for 70,000 euros. What is the dollar price in the United States of the German car if the exchange rate is 0.90 euro per dollar?
If the price level recently increased by 20% in England while falling by 5% in the United States, by how much must the exchange rate change if PPP holds? Assume that the current exchange rate is
When the euro appreciates, are you more likely to drink California wine or French wine?
If the Japanese price level rises by 5% relative to the price level in the United States, what does the theory of purchasing power parity predict will happen to the value of the Japanese yen in terms
Suppose the Federal Reserve purchases $1,000,000 worth of foreign assets.a. If the Federal Reserve purchases the foreign assets with $1,000,000 in currency, show the effect of this open market
What is the exchange rate between dollars and Swiss francs if one dollar is convertible into 1/20 ounce of gold and one Swiss franc is convertible into 1/40 ounce of gold?
Calculate what happens to nominal GDP if velocity remains constant at 5 and the money supply increases from $200 billion to $300 billion.
Sarah is single and earns $60,000 in salary. She wants to invest $2,500 per year in an IRA but is not sure which type she qualifies for and whether this would be a better investment than putting her
What happens to nominal GDP if the money supply grows by 20% but velocity declines by 30%?
If velocity and aggregate output remain constant at 5 and $1,000 billion, respectively, what happens to the price level if the money supply declines from $400 billion to $300 billion?
Suppose the liquidity preference function is given byL(I,Y) = Y/8 - 1,000iUse the money demand equation, along with the following table of values, to calculate the velocity for each period.
If velocity and aggregate output are reasonably constant (as the classical economists believed), what will happen to the price level when the money supply increases from $1 trillion to $4 trillion?
Suppose a new "payment technology" allows individuals to make payments using U.S. Treasury bonds (i.e., U.S. Treasury bonds are immediately cashed when needed to make a payment, and that balance is
In many countries, people hold money as a cushion against unexpected needs arising from a variety of potential scenarios (e.g., banking crises, natural disasters, health problems, unemployment, etc.)
Suppose the money supply M has been growing at 10% per year, and nominal GDP, PY, has been growing at 20% per year. The data are as follows (in billions of dollars):Calculate the velocity for each
Assume that autonomous consumption is $1,625 billion and disposable income is $11,500 billion. Calculate consumption expenditure if an increase of $1,000 in disposable income leads to an increase of
Suppose that Dell Corporation has 20,000 computers in its warehouses on December 31, 2016, ready to be shipped to merchants (each computer is valued at $500). By December 31, 2017, Dell Corporation
If the consumption function is C = 100 + 0.75YD, I = 200, government spending is 200, and net exports are zero, what will be the equilibrium level of output? What will happen to aggregate output if
George just accepted a job as an apartment manager and is paid a salary of $28,000 per year. In addition to the salary, he is offered the choice of rent-free use of an apartment or a $500 per month
If the marginal propensity to consume is 0.75, by how much would government spending have to rise to increase output by $1,000 billion? By how much would taxes need to decrease to increase output by
Assuming both taxes and government spending increase by the same amount, derive an expression for the effect on equilibrium output.
Rise. The fall in spending from an increase in taxes is always less than the change in taxes because the marginal propensity to consume is less than 1. By contrast, autonomous spending rises
In this case, as interest rates fall, planned investment spending and net export do not change, so equilibrium output remains unchanged. This means that the IS curve is vertical.
Companies cut production when their unplanned inventory investment is greater than zero, because they are then producing more than they can sell. If they continue at current production, profits will
False. In this case, if actual investment is greater than planned investment, firms are adding to inventory, thus unplanned inventory investment is positive. This leads firms to reduce production in
Suppose the monetary policy curve is given by r = 1.5 + 0.751(, and the IS curve is given by Y = 13 - r.a. Calculate an expression for the aggregate demand curve.b. Calculate the real interest rate
How does an autonomous tightening or easing of monetary policy by the Fed affect the aggregate demand curve?
If large budget deficits cause the public to think there will be higher inflation in the future, what is likely to happen to the short-run aggregate supply curve when budget deficits rise?
June is a single individual with AGI of $45,000 for the year. June has a five-year-old son in day care while she works. a. What is her dependent care credit if she spends $5,000 for child care during
Why is the originate-to-distribute business model subject to the principal-agent problem?
If someone told you, "Congress and the Senate couldn't vote themselves out of a phone booth," what type of policy lag would that person be referring to?
What does it mean when we say that the inflation gap is negative?
If a bank doubles the amount of its capital and ROA stays constant, what will happen to ROE?
Why might a bank be willing to borrow funds from other banks at a higher rate than the rate at which it can borrow from the Fed?
Why was the United States one of the last major industrialized countries to have a central bank?
Write down the formula that is used to calculate the yield to maturity on a twenty-year 10% coupon bond with a $1,000 face value that sells for $2,000.
The First National Bank receives an extra $100 of reserves but decides not to lend out any of these reserves. How much deposit creation takes place for the entire banking system?
If the Treasury pays a large bill to defense contractors and as a result its deposits with the Fed fall, what defensive open market operations will the manager of the open market desk undertake?
What will happen to the demand for Rembrandt paintings if the stock market undergoes a boom? Why?
Scott is the CEO of a large corporation in Chicago. He spends the month of August in Wisconsin at his vacation home where he has a separate structure furnished as an office. Scott uses the office
"The more risk-averse people are, the more likely they are to diversify." Is this statement true, false, or uncertain? Explain your answer.
"No one who is risk-averse will ever buy a security that has a lower expected return, more risk, and less liquidity than another security." Is this statement true, false, or uncertain? Explain your
"The only way that the Fed can affect the level of borrowed reserves is by adjusting the discount rate." Is this statement true, false, or uncertain? Explain your answer.
Has the inflation rate in the United States increased or decreased in the past few years? What about interest rates?
Under what conditions will a discount bond have a negative nominal interest rate? Is it possible for a coupon bond or a perpetuity to have a negative nominal interest rate?
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