1)Undertake a review of literature to explain why corporate social responsibility is gaining heightened importance for firms operating with financial objectives(200 words)2)Explain whether sustainability reporting in contrast with relevant other reporting concepts represents a holistic view of corporate social responsibility
1. Under current law, most Social Security recipients do not have to pay federal or state income taxes on their Social Security benefits. Suppose the government proposes to tax these benefits at the same rate as other types of income. What would be the impact of the proposed tax on the optimal retirement age?
2. Consider the following proposed changes to the current Social Security earnings test and determine if the changes lead to higher hours of work among retirees.
a. A change in the amount of exempt labor earnings, from $17,000 to $25,000.
b. An increase in the implicit tax rate from 33 to 50 percent.
1) Two months from today you plan to borrow $3 million for 3 months at LIBOR. You hedge your interest rate risk with a euro dollar futures contract priced at 93.6. If settled in arrears, what is your payment if the 3-month LIBOR rate is 2.5% (not annualized) in two months?
2) IBM and AT&T decide to swap $1 million loans. IBM currently pays 9.0% fixed and AT&T pays 8.5% on a LIBOR+ 0.5% loan. What is the net cash flow for IBM if they swap their fixed loan for
a LIBOR+ 0.5% loan and LIBOR rises to 8.5%?
3) The S&P 500 Index price is 1492.28 and its annualized dividend yield is 2.30%. LIBOR is .2%. How many futures contracts will you need to hedge a $240 million portfolio with a beta of 1.16 for one year? (Show your Work)
4) The annual coupon rate on a 1-year treasury bond is 5.5%. The coupon on a 2-year treasury bond is 5.8%. What is the implied 1 year forward rate?
5) Three months from today you plan to borrow $1.8 Billion for 6 months at LIBOR. You hedge 65% of your interest rate risk with a euro dollar futures contract priced at 99.2. If settled in arrears, what is your payment if the 6-month LIBOR is .28% in two months?
6) The current currency spot rate is $1.30 per euro. If dollar denominated interest rates are .24% and euro denominated interest rates are .2%, what is the likely dollar per euro value of
a 2 year forward contract
7) The S&P 500 Index is priced at $1450.91. The annualized dividend yield on the index is 2.10%. The continuously compounded annual interest rate is .12%. What is the price of a forward contract that expires 18 months from today?
8) Six months from today you plan to borrow $433 million for 6 months at LIBOR. You hedge 100% of your interest rate risk with a euro dollar futures contract priced at 99.4. If settled in arrears, what is your payment if the 6-month LIBOR is 2.5625% in six months?
1. What are the main factors causing economic growth?
2. What types of policy can be used to promote economic growth?
3. Why does the index of sustainable economic welfare (ISEW) differ from gross national product (GNP)?
1. Using the function mp Sample TW, compute the average uniqueness of each label. What is the first-order serial correlation, AR(1), of this time series? Is it statistically significant? Why?
2. Fit a random forest to a financial dataset where 
(a) What is the mean out-of-bag accuracy?
(b) What is the mean accuracy of k-fold cross-validation (without shuffling) on the same dataset?
(c) Why is out-of-bag accuracy so much higher than cross-validation accuracy? Which one is more correct / less biased? What is the source of this bias?
1. What are the main assumptions of perfect competition?
2. In a monopoly, if a firm fixes the price, what determines the amount supplied?
3. Imperfect competition can be divided into three submarkets. What are they?
1. Using the code presented in Section 8.6:
(a) Generate a dataset (X, y).
(b) Apply a PCA transformation on X, which we denote Ẋ.
(c) Compute MDI, MDA, and SFI feature importance on (Ẋ,y), where the base estimator is RF.
(d) Do the three methods agree on what features are important? Why?
2. From exercise, generate a new dataset (Ẍ,y), where Ẍ is a feature union of X and Ẋ .
(a) Compute MDI, MDA, and SFI feature importance on (Ẍ,y), where the base estimator is RF.
(b) Do the three methods agree on the important features? Why?
1. What are some typical inputs and outputs of the accounting cycles?
2. Why is it important for a company to have an internal control system?
What is the difference between a general control and an application control?
1. What are teams and how are they formed? Consider this question in the context of your
group and the board of your Central Bank.
2. How successful is your team in deriving their recommendation? Is your team able to agree
on and manage their schedule? Are their different opinions and how are they resolved?
3. Assume that you are the chairman of the central bank board and your team mates are board
members. How would you handle different opinions and would you do things differently
compared to what your team did?
4. Now assume that you are board member and have a different recommendation to other
board members. Having gone through this process, how might you contribute to the
discussion differently in the future?
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1. What are Diva’s projected profits for the fiscal year ending September 1995?
2. What factors affect a firm’s exposure to exchange rate risk? How much exposure to exchange rate risk does Diva Shoes have in April 1995?
3. Suppose that Diva chooses to hedge its exposure in yen using the forward contract described in case Appendix A or the currency option described in case Appendix B. Assume that you lock in these contracts at the forward price implied by interest-rate parity for September 1995. Draw the payoffs to the position at maturity for each alternative with the exchange rate defined in USD/JPY × 10,000 units (i.e., the same units as the currency option is quoted). What do you see as the tradeoffs between the alternatives?
4. Do you think Bisno should remain strictly a shoe salesman or do you favor hedging his exposure? If you favor hedging, which alternative would you recommend to him?
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