Match the career with the education that the job requires.

Suppose that we have the following information concerning the government's finances and the macroeconomy for a given year: Gover

tresset_1 [31]

Answer: $300 billion

Explanation:

The real deficit that a Government has is one that has been adjusted for inflationary effects. It is calculated by subtracting the inflation rate times the total debt from the nominal deficit.

= Nominal deficit - (Inflation rate * Total debt)

= 1.5 trillion - ( 10% * 12 trillion)

= 1.5 trillion - 1.2 trillion

= $300 billion

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3 years ago

If a ppf has a negative slope and is bowed out, we experience ________ opportunity costs as we continue to move down and to th

Snowcat [4.5K]

Answer:

Explanation:

Production possibility frontier (ppf) is a graph which shows the existence of opportunity cost of moving from one combination of goods to another . Its slope is always negative and bowing out or downward sloping because opportunity costs always diminish or go down due to law of diminishing marginal return.

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3 years ago

A University of Iowa basketball standout is offered a choice of contracts by the New York Liberty.

Ratling [72]

Answer: The lowest interest rate at which the present value of the second contract exceeds that of the first is a. 7 percent.

Explanation:

Calculating present values is a useful way to compare cases where money is to be received in the future. The higher the present value (when comparing cases where you get money), the better. To calculate it, we make use of the next formula:

$PV=\frac{C}{(1+r)^{n}}$

Where PV: Present value,

C: Cash flow at a given period,

r: Interest rate, and

n: Number of periods that will have passed (in this case, we are talking about years).

Now, since we are getting money twice in each case (the first payment one year from today, and the final payment two years from today), we can restructure our present value formula to include these two payments. We will get something like this:

$PV=\frac{C_1}{1+r}+\frac{C_2}{(1+r)^{2}}$

Notice how each fraction represents one of the payments received, with one having an 'n' of 1 year, and the other one having an 'n' of 2 years. C₁ and C₂ represent the first and the second payment, respectively.

Now that we have our completed formula, let's review each contract's present value (PV) with the lowest interest rate (7%), just to see how it turns out. Remember that 7% equals 0.07 in any formula:

Contract A) This one gives her $100,000 one year from today and $100,000 two years from today.

$PV_{A,0.07}=\frac{100000}{1+0.07}+\frac{100000}{(1+0.07)^{2}}\\PV_{A,0.07}=93457.944+87343.873\\PV_{A,0.07}=180801.817dollars$

So Contract A's present value at 7% interest rate would be equal to $180801.817.

Contract B) The second one gives her $132,000 one year from today and $66,000 two years from today.

$PV_{B,0.07}=\frac{132000}{1+0.07}+\frac{66000}{(1+0.07)^{2}}\\PV_{B,0.07}=123364.486+57646.956\\PV_{B,0.07}=181011.442dollars$

So Contract B's present value at 7% interest rate would be equal to $181011.442, which exceeds that of Contract A.

Since among our options of interest rates, 7 percent is the lowest one, and, with this taken into account, the present value of the second contract (Contract B) exceeded that of the first (Contract A), the answer is a. 7 percent.

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3 years ago

The foreign exchange market is a market for converting the currency of one country into that of another country.

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Answer:

a. True

Explanation:

The foreign exchange market is a market for converting the currency of one country into that of another country.

For example, the conversion of dollars of the United States of America can be converted into naira (Nigeria) at the foreign exchange market.

Efficient market school is the market school which argues that forward exchange rates do the best possible job for forecasting future spot exchange rates, so investing in exchange rate forecasting services would be a waste of time because it is impossible to have a consistent alpha generation on a risk adjusted excess returns basis as market prices are only affected by new informations.

The efficient market school also known as the efficient market hypothesis (EMH) is a hypothesis that states that asset (share) prices reflect all information and it is very much impossible to consistently beat the market.

Also, forward exchange rates are exchange rates controlling foreign exchange transactions at a specific future date or time.

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2 years ago

Jason and Mary are married taxpayers in 2019. They are both under age 65 and in good health. For 2019 they have a total of $41,0

Elis [28]

Answer:

a. Adjusted Gross income is calculated as;

= Wages + Interest - Deduction

= 41,000 + 700 - 5,000

= $36,700

b. The couple will pick their Standard deduction in 2019 because its more than the itemized deduction.

Standard deduction for couples in 2019 = $24,400

c. I assume you mean their 2019 taxable income which is;

= Adjusted Gross income - Standard deduction

= 36,700 - 24,400

= $12,300

Note; As of 2018 there are no more personal deductions.

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3 years ago