Answer:
Yield to maturity is 3.94%
Explanation:
Yield to maturity is the annual rate of return that an investor receives if a bond bond is held until the maturity.
Face value = F = $1,000
Coupon payment = $1,000 x 9% = $90/2 = $45 semiannually
Selling price = P = $1080
Number of payment = n = 10 years x 2 = 20
Yield to maturity = [ C + ( F - P ) / n ] / [ (F + P ) / 2 ]
Yield to maturity = [ $45 + ( 1000 - 1080 ) / 20 ] / [ (1,000 + 1080 ) / 2 ]
Yield to maturity = [ $45 - 4 ] / 1040 = $41 /1040 = 0.394 = 3.94%
Answer: threat of new entrants will prevent the prices from rising above the competitive level.
Explanation:
A contestable market has competition such that sellers cannot unilaterally decide to sell at a certain price. They have to sell at a competitive price that is set by the market to ensure that goods are allocated efficiently.
If the prices attempt to rise above this competitive level, new sellers will enter the market so as to make a profit which would have the effect of driving the price back down to where it was and even lower if even more sellers come in. The price is therefore maintained to ensure that this does not happen.
Answer:
This implies that bus is an inferior good and car is a normal good.
Explanation:
Initially, Jim's income was $5000 a year.
As his income increases to $60,000 a year, he decides to buy a car instead of using the bus.
In other words, with the increase in income, the demand for traveling by bus is declining.
This implies that it is an inferior good.
The demand for the car is increasing with an increase in income.
So, the car is a normal good.
An inferior good can be defined as a product that shows negative elasticity. This means with an increase in income its demand declines an vice versa.
A normal good can be defined as a product that shows positive income elasticity. That is, its demand increases with rise in income and vice versa.
