1. Joshua Vermier of Sacramento, California, received a raise after his first year on the job to $43,800 from his initial salary of $42,000. What was Joshua’s raise stated as a percentage? Inflation averaged 2.8 percent for the year. What was his real income after the raise? What was his real raise stated as a percentage?
1. On a dollar bar series on E-mini S&P 500 futures,
(a) Compute SMT for SM-Poly1 and SM-Poly 2, where 𝜑 = 1. What is their correlation?
(b) Compute SMT for SM-Exp, where 𝜑 = 1 and 𝜑 = 0.5. What is their correlation?
(c) Compute SMT for SM-Power, where 𝜑 = 1 and 𝜑 = 0.5. What is their correlation?
2. If you compute the reciprocal of each price, the series 
turns bubbles into bursts and bursts into bubbles.
(a) Is this transformation needed, to identify bursts?
(b) What methods in this chapter can identify bursts without requiring this transformation?
1.MattelA????1s global sourcing in China, like all other toymanufacturers, was based on both low-cost labor, and a growingcritical mass of factories competitively vying for contractmanufacturing business. Do you think the product recalls andproduct quality problems are separate from or part of pursuing alow-cost country strategy?
2.Whether it is lead paint on toys or defective sliding slideson baby cribs, whose responsibility do you think it is to assuresafety A????1 the company, like Mattel, or the country, in this caseChina?
3.Many international trade and development experts argue thatChina is just now discovering the difference between being a majoreconomic player in global business and its previous peripheral roleas a low-cost manufacturing site on the periphery of the worldeconomy. What do you think?
1. On a series of E-mini S&P 500 futures tick data, compute dollar bars and dollar imbalance bars. What bar type exhibits greater serial correlation? Why?
2. On dollar bar series of E-mini S&P 500 futures and Euro 
50 futures:
(a) Apply Section 2.4.2 to compute the {𝜔
(b) Derive the time series of the S&P 500/Euro 50 spread.
(c) Confirm that the series is stationary, with an ADF test.
1.MCQ: Applications such as robotics, expert systems, pattern recolonization, artificial neutral networks etc are A.engineering software B.artificial Intelligence software C.system software D.product line software 2. Collection of patterns that define a set of activities, actions, work tasks, work products and related behaviors required to develop computer software is called A.process cell B.process pattern C.cell pattern D.bit pattern 3. Capability level in which all level 2 criteria have been achieved, process is tailored from organization’s set of standard processes according to organization’s tailoring guidelines and contributed work products ,measures and other process improvement information to organizational process assets in A.Level0:incomplete B.Level1:Performed C.Level2:Managed D.Level3:Defined 4. Phase of UP encompasses customer communication and modeling activities is A.inception B.construction C.elaboration D.transition 5. In PSP, by using measures and metrics collected, effectiveness and modification of process is determined by A.development B.postmortem C.planning D.high level design
1. On a dollar bar series on E-mini S&P 500 futures,
(a) Apply the Brown-Durbin-Evans method. Does it recognize the dot-com bubble?
(b) Apply the Chu-
-White method. Does it find a bubble in 2007– 2008?
2. On a dollar bar series on E-mini S&P 500 futures,
(a) Compute the SDFC (Chow-type) explosiveness test. What break date does this method select? Is this what you expected?
(b) Compute and plot the SADF values for this series. Do you observe extreme spikes around the dot-com bubble and before the Great Recession? Did the bursts also cause spikes?
1. Market for corporate control includes the following: (I) Mergers (II) Spin-offs and divestitures (III) Leveraged buyouts (LBOs) (IV) Privatizations A) I only B) I and II only C) I, II, and III only D) I, II,III, and IV
1. Offshore accounting services, especially to India, are becoming an increasingly attractive option for many U.S. companies. This shift has led to huge startup and communication costs, and the employment situation is further affected by general downsizing of corporations, as well as an increase in productivity. Are the exports of white-collar jobs to India necessarily a loss for the United States?
2. What is the difference between Rybczynski and the Stolper-Samuelson theorem.
3. What is the difference between Ricardian and Specific Factor model.
4. What is it that North-South trade in manufactures seems to be consistent with the results or expectations generated by the factor-proportions (H-O) theory of international trade, whereas North-North trade is not? Include the types of trade involved.
5. Why the evidence from the East Asia New Industrializing Countries suggests that as international productivities converge, so do international wage levels? What do you think is likely to happen to the relative wages (relative to those in the US) of China in the coming decade? Explain your reasoning based on the Ricardian Model.
6. Discuss the framework of the Specific Factors model in analyzing the distributional effects of international labour migration.
1. Name two withdrawals from the circular flow.
2. What is an injection into the circular flow?
3. When, in theory, is an economy in equilibrium?
1. Mrs. Mary Atkins, age 66, has been your firm’s client for five years, since the death of her husband, Dr. Charles Atkins. Dr. Atkins had built a successful newspaper business that he sold two years before his death to Merit Enterprises, a publishing and broadcasting conglomerate, in exchange for Merit common stock. The Atkinses have no children, and their wills provide that upon their deaths the remaining assets shall be used to create a fund for the benefit of Good Samaritan Hospital, to be called the Atkins Endowment Fund.
Good Samaritan is a 180-bed, not-for-profit hospital with an annual operating budget of $12.5 million. In the past, the hospital’s operating revenues have often been sufficient to meet operating expenses and occasionally even generate a small surplus. In recent years, however, rising costs and declining occupancy rates have caused Good Samaritan to run a deficit. The operating deficit has averaged $300,000 to $400,000 annually over the last several years. Existing endowment assets (that is, excluding the Atkins’s estate) of $7.5 million currently generate approximately $375,000 of annual income, up from less than $200,000 five years ago. This increased income has been the result of somewhat higher interest rates, as well as a shift in asset mix toward more bonds. To offset operating deficits, the Good Samaritan Board of Governors has determined that the endowment’s current income should be increased to approximately 6% of total assets (up from 5% currently). The hospital has not received any significant additions to its endowment assets in the past five years.
Identify and describe an appropriate set of investment objectives and constraints for the
Atkins Endowment Fund to be created after Mrs. Atkins’s death.
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