Economics-AW-Q458 Online Services
Assignment 1
DUE April 15th 2015 DURING YOUR DISCUSSION SESSION
1) DATA COLLECTING AND HANDLING
a) Download one year of daily prices (1/1/2014 to 12/31/2014) for the following four stocks:
MICROSOFT , PFIZER, WALMART, BANK OF AMERICA.
2) BASIC STOCK ANALYSIS
a) For each stock calculate t...
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Economics
Economics -AW-Q431
Economics -AW-Q431 Online Services
You are facing the following market data on the US Stock Market.
Assumed Market Return 14.50%
Assumed risk free rate 1.50%
Assumed Market volatility 15%
You are considering investing all your wealth in a risky portfolio, so you ask for an advice from 2
different professional investment planners. The first one i...
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Economics-AW-Q407
Economics-AW-Q407 Online Services
1) BASIC PORTFOLIO ANALYSIS
Choose 5 stocks on the NYSE/NASDAQ market and download one year of daily data from yahoo finance
a) Briefly describe each stock in terms of return, risk, sensitivity to the market, historical risk premium.
b) Calculate the minimum variance portfolio. Discuss its composition.
c) Graph...
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Economics-AW-Q413
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HOMEWORK 2
1. How does risk sharing benet both nancial intermediaries and private investors?
2. Explain the dierence between depository institutions, contractual savings institutions, and investment intermediaries.
3. What is the equation underlying the quantity theory of money? What are the two assumptions t...
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Economics-AW-Q421
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Problem 17-13
Foreign Investment Analysis
Chapman, Inc.'s Mexican subsidiary, V. Gomez Corporation, is expected to pay to Chapman 5 pesos in dividends in 1 year after all foreign and U.S. taxes have been subtracted. The exchange rate in 1 year is expected to be $0.05 per peso. After this, the peso is expected...
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Economics-AW-Q309
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Assignment 2
There are 3 questions worth a total of 50 marks. Please answer all questions.
(20 marks)The demand for cargo bikes in New Zealand is Q^d=(5000-P)I/200 where I is average income in thousands (i.e. if average income is 50,000 I=50)
(8 marks) Suppose Avanti decides to begin producing carg...
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Economics-AW-Q290
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Foreign Exchange (FOREX) homework
1. (2 pts) You have an accounts payable to a German exporter for 100 Porsche Cayenne SUVs. The seller offers a 2 percent discount for payment within 10 days and full payment due in 30 days (2/10 net 30). Today the exchange rate is $1.40 per Euro. You notice that the 30 day forward ra...
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Economics-AW-Q138
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Money and Banking
The homework is individual.
Students are encouraged to discuss the homework with other classmates as long as they acknowl-edge collaboration and there is no copying.
Hand in your work at the start of next Tuesday's class .
If you want a question to be regraded, please resubmit...
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Economics-AW-Q220
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1. Consider a world in which there are two countries: Big Industrialized Country (BIC) and Small Developing Country (SDC). BIC has a labor force of 500,000 and SDC has a labor force of 80,000. There are two types of goods in this world—food (F) and manufactures (M), and they are both produced using only labor. The technology f...
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Economics-AW-Q204
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Question 1: Business strategy
Many organizations talk about having comprehensive vision and mission statements, and yet anecdotally many seem to do a poor job of communicating these directional statements to their stakeholders (i.e. employees, communities, etc.). To illustrate, can you state your own organization’s ...
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