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What important factors, in addition to quantitative factors, should a firm consider when it is making a capital structure decision? How do these factors play in the decision? Have you any examples from your own experience that you could share with others in the class?

Consider an Oligopoly in which the inverse demand function p ( N on top) Σ (I = 1 below) Xi on the right side) = a – b  ( N on top) Σ (I = 1 below) Xi on the right side), a, ,b, > 0 and each firms costs c(xi) = cxi, 0 < c < a. First, given n, determine the cournot-nash equilibrium...

"a. Calculate the EBIT-EPS indifference point.        b. Graphically determine the EBIT-EPS indifference point. Hint: use EBIT= $10 million and $25 million.        c. What happens to the indifference point if the interest rate on debt increases and the common stock sales price remains constant? "

Calculate the Long run industry supply curve for a constant-cost industry, Marginal cost, Average total cost, output.

Sam Student had borrowed $1,000 from his cousin. Sam and the cousin became involved in a heated disagreement when the cousin began to press Sam for repayment of the loan. Finally, Sam wrote a   check for $190 to the cousin and conspicuously wrote on the check in big letters that it was...

a) What is the expected amount of disposable income the landlord will have facing this risky situation?  Is this a fair gamble? b) What is the expected utility of the landlord in this risky situation assuming he cares only about his disposable income? c) What amount of certain income would make the landlord as happy as he would be facing the risky situation?

a)   What is wrong with the president's calculation? b)   What are the fixed and variable costs of operating the university?

"Consider the standard simple regression model y= β0 + β1x +u  under the gauss-Markov assumptions SLR.1 through SLR.5. the usual OLs estimators   and   are unbiased for their respective population parameters. Let β1 be the estimator of β1 obained by assuming the...

While Managers do not control many factors affecting the success of their organisation, they do have substantial control over the process they use to make decisions Discuss with a case study on any corporation on how their effective management and decision making process could have an impact on organisation success?

Three market coverage alternatives are available when determining how many marketing segments to enter. Describe the differences in approach among undifferentiated, differentiated and concentrated marketing. Then, imagine you are the marketing manager for a new high-end coffee shop to compete with Starbucks. Which alternative in coverage would you choose, and why?

"a.Estimate the linear trend in the data, and use it to forecast gasoline sales in the United States in each quarter of 1990. b.Estimate the log-linear trend in the data, and use it to forecast gasoline sales in the United States in each quarter of 1990. c.Which form of the trend fits the historical data better?  Why would we expect both forecasts to be rather poor? "

Consider a monopoly with a cost function of .  Its output is sold to two different markets:  US and Europe with the following demand functions.

"a)   A for-profit hospital earns a gross profit of $10 million. Twenty-five percent (25%) of this gross profit is retained earnings and another 30% is charged to corporate tax. If there are two 25% preferred shareholders and ten 10% ordinary shareholders, how much will each shareholder...

Redo the company's contribution format income statement assuming that the company sells 1,400 units.