Answer:
a. Secured bonds - A secured bond is a bond that is issued with a collateral backing the loan.
b. Callable bonds - A bond that the issuer can call off, or pay off, at any time, not necessarily at maturity.
c. Convertible bonds - A bond that can be converted into equity (stocks). If the bondholder wishes, he can exchange his bond for ownership of stocks in the bond issuer firm.
d. Term bonds - A bond that has one single, specific maturity date.
e. Serial bonds - A bond that has several maturity dates.
Answer:
A.) private, nonrival, and excludable
B.) Common resources
C. Faster
Explanation:
A. A privately owned forest is a private good. This goods ownership is restricted to those that bought it. No one else shares in the use of this good. Therefore the answer here is that it is private, non rival and also excludable.
B. If anyone is able to enter a government forest legally it means it is a common good. Common goods are goods with rivalry but are non excludable.
C. The rate of logging in a government owned forest would be faster since there is little cost to cutting the trees, especially when there is no regulation.
Answer:
Export of labor-intensive products
Heavy investment in building a world-class infrastructure to attract foreign investment
Explanation:
The population of China is the highest in the world, hence they concluded that they needed to use their number to their own advantage by adopting a labor-intensive production technique which enables them to export their products as well as ensuring a higher percentage of the populace is gainfully employed, little wonders how China products are available the world over.
Also, they provided world class infrastructures which serve as incentives for foreign direct investment, for instance Apple moved its main factory to China due to the cheaper and available workforce coupled with the state of the art technological infrastructural development achieved by the Chinese people.
Answer: C. Both parties now have an obligation to their agreement.
Explanation:
When parties get into a contract, they have a legal obligation to each other to fulfill their part of the agreement or the other party will be able to seek redress in a court of law.
Terrance and the bank are now parties to an agreement to provide Terrence with a loan to buy a house. The bank will have to fulfill this obligation by giving Terrence the loan and Terrence will fulfill his side of the agreement by making payments as stipulated in the loan covenant.
