Answer: B - a general improvement in technology affecting production of all goods
Explanation: The Production Possibility Frontier is a curve that shows the two combination of goods an economy can produce when all its factors of production are efficiently used.
Technological progress shifts the curve outward, away from the origin as more output would be produced using the same combination of factor inputs.
Shifting of resources from butter to gun would lead to movements along the curve as more gun would be produced and less butter.
Pacifism becoming less popular which increases gun production, would cause movement along the curve.
Increase in consumer desire for butter increase the amount of butter produced . This would generate a movement along the curve
Answer:
Required return for Savitz: 10.95%
Explanation:
<u>Considering the gordon model we have to solve for the cost of capital (Ke)</u>
D1 2.08
P 42
g 0.06
Ke 0.10952381
Answer:
A. Investors can hedge against a price decline by buying a call option.
Explanation: Investment risk can be defined as the probability or likelihood of occurrence of losses relative to the expected return on any particular investment.
Buying a call option entitles the buyer of the option the right to purchase the underlying futures contract at the strike price any time before the contract expires. Most traders buy call options because they believe a commodity market is going to move higher and they want to profit from that move.
A call option is a contract the gives an investor the right, but not the obligation, to buy a certain amount of shares of a security at a specified price at a later time.
Answer:
$7,500
Explanation:
Lee, Inc. acquired 30% of Polk Corp.'s voting stock on January 1, Year 1 for $100,000.
During Year 1, Polk earned $40,000 and paid dividends of $25,000.
Therefore Lee's dividend income = 0.3 x 25,000 = $7,500
Before income taxes, the amount that Lee should include in its Year 1 Income Statement as a result of the investment will be the dividend earned in year 1 which is $7,500