Suppose that we want to evaluate the effect of several variables onannual saving and that we have a panel data set on individuals collected in January1990 and January 1992. If we include a year dummy variable for 1992 and use firstdifferencing, can we also include age in the original model? Explain.

Answer:

Following are the responses to the given question:

Explanation:

Note that others will therefore increase his age by two percent from 2009 to 1992.

[tex]\Delta age_{i}=2 \ \ \ where \ \ i =1,2,....,n[/tex]

And if the trend is running:

 [tex]\Delta saving_{i}=\beta _{0}+\beta _{1}\Delta age_{i}+...+u_{i}[/tex]

We're breaking MLR.3 as [tex]\Delta agei[/tex] it's the same for all -> No different from a permanent designer cannot immediately distinguish the influence of age from the aggregate time effect because age changes per person by the same amount.

A company's perpetual preferred stock currently trades at $87.50 per share, and it pays an $8.00 annual dividend. If the company were to sell a new preferred issue, it would incur a flotation cost of 5.00% of the issue price. What is the firm's cost of preferred stock?
a. 8.25%
b. 9.14%
c. 8.69%
d. 9.62%

Types of Financial Assets Match the description of the security to the type of financial asset. A security that provides a payoff that depends on the values of other assets. Multiple Choice equity security debt security derivative security None of these

Explain the 5 marketing objectives?

In assembly-line balancing, cycle time (the ratio of available production time to scheduled production) is the: minimum time that a product is allowed at each workstation. maximum time that a product is allowed at each workstation. inverse of the minimum number of workstations needed. sum of all the task times divided by the maximum number of workstations. equivalent of the maximum task time among all tasks.

You want to borrow $85,000 from your local bank to buy a new sailboat. You can afford to make monthly payments of $1,450, but no more. Assuming monthly compounding, what is the highest rate you can afford on a 72-month APR loan? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.)

Fraternity is protected under the ..
-Federal law
-Provincial law
-none of them
-Charter of rights and freedoms.

Weekly demand figures at Hot Pizza are as follows:
Week Demand($)
1 108
2 116
3 118
4 124
5 96
6 119
7 96
8 102
9 112
10 102
11 92
12 91
Using the Hot Pizza weekly demand figures provided, estimate demand for Week 4 to Week 12 by using a 3-week moving average as well as simple exponential smoothing with α = 0.2. Evaluate the MAD, MAPE, MSE, bias, and TS in each case. Which of the two methods do you prefer? Why? Include all calculations as well as your narrative explanation and summary.

Voice Com, Inc., produces and sells cellular phones. The costs of producing and selling 8,000 units of cellular phones are as follows: Variable costs: Fixed costs: Direct materials $ 81 per unit Factory overhead $325,600 Direct labor 37 Selling and admin. exp. 114,400 Factory overhead 24 Selling and admin. exp. 20 Total $162 per unit Voice Com desires a profit equal to a 14% rate of return on invested assets of $942,400. Assume that Voice Com, Inc., uses the total cost concept of applying the cost-plus approach to product pricing. a. Determine the total costs and the total cost amount per unit for the production and sale of 8,000 units of cellular phones. Round the cost per unit to two decimal places. Total cost $ fill in the blank 1 Cost amount per unit $ fill in the blank 2 b. Determine the total cost markup percentage (rounded to two decimal places) for cellular phones. fill in the blank 3 % c. Determine the selling price of cellular phones. Round to the nearest cent. $ fill in the blank 4 per phone

3. Explain the success of the training program using Conditioning Theory and Social Cognitive Theory. For each theory: A. How do you explain why the training program was not effective? B. How could the program be improved by using some of the concepts from each theory.

Fran’s Fries has budgeted sales for May, June and July at $500,000, $680,000 and $720,000, respectively. Sales are 80% cash and 20% on account. Assume sales on account are collected in the month following the sale. Compute cash receipts for June and July. Show your work here.

Imagine you are reviewing a business plan. In which section of the business plan would you expect to find the answers to the following questions?
Question Financial Statements Marketing & Sales Management Service or Product Line
How much money will the owners invest in the business start-up?
How will the salespeople for this business be compensated?
What are the unique features of this business’s merchandise?

Unobserved effects versus idiosyncratic errors
Suppose you have two years' worth of panel data on wages and work experience of adults; however, the data set has no further information on the characteristics of the individuals in the data set. Specifically, you have cross-sectional wage and work experience data on individuals in 2006, and cross-sectional data on those same individuals in 2012. You plan to use the following fixed effects model to analyze the effects of work experience on wages:
log (wage it ) = βo + 80 yr10, + B1 experit + ai + uit
where
wage it = yearly wage of individual i at time t, in dollars
yrl0, =1 in the year 2010 (t = 2), and =0 otherwise (t = 1)
exper = years of work experience of individual i, at time t
ai = unobserved (time-invariant) effect
uit = idiosyncratic error
Two other factors that can influence wage, which you have not controlled for in your model, are height and industry of employment.
Use the following table to indicate which term in the fixed effects model captures the effect of height, which term captures the effect of industry of employment, and which term captures the effect of work experience.
ai uit β1
Work experience
Height
Industry of employment

Mark owns a driving range in New York City. He has taken notice of the three competitors who are located very close to his business. Mark decides to look at his competitors' pricing and then determine his best pricing strategy based on all of the information. In this scenario, Mark is utilizing ________.

Which of the following characteristics implies that a quantitative model is probabilistic in nature?
(a)The fact that it uses random variables.
(b)The fact that it uses an exponential function.
(c)The fact that it measures time in discrete steps.
(d)The fact that it is based on theory rather than data.

You have decided to buy a used car. The dealer has offered you two options: (FV of $1, PV of $1, FVA of $1, and PVA of $1) (Use the appropriate factor(s) from the tables provided.) Pay $620 per month for 20 months and an additional $12,000 at the end of 20 months. The dealer is charging an annual interest rate of 24%. Make a one-time payment of $16,864, due when you purchase the car. 1-a. Determine how much cash the dealer would charge in option (a). (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.) 1-b. In present value terms, which offer is clearly a better deal

Beckenworth had cost of goods sold of $10,521 million, ending inventory of $3,189 million, and average inventory of $2,075 million. Its days' sales in inventory equals: __________

Wallaby Kite Company, a small Melbourne firm that sells kites on the Web, wants a master budget for the three months beginning January 1, 2012. It desires an ending minimum cash balance of $20,000 each month. Sales are forecast at an average wholesale selling price of $8 per kite. Merchandise costs average $4 per kite. All sales are on credit, payable within 30 days, but experience has shown that 60 percent of current sales are collected in the current month, 30 percent in the next month, and 10 percent in the month thereafter. Bad debts are negligible.
In January, Wallaby Kite is beginning just-in-time (JIT) deliveries from suppliers, which means that purchases will equal expected sales. On January 1, purchases will cease until inventory decreases to $24,000, after which time purchases will equal sales. Purchases during any given month are paid in full during the following month. Monthly operating expenses are as follows:
Wages and salaries....$60,000
Insurance expired...........500
Depreciation.................1,000
Miscellaneous.............10,000
$1,000/month + 10% of quarterly sales over
Rent...........................$40,000
Cash dividends of $6,000 are to be paid quarterly, beginning January 15, and are declared on the 15th of the previous month. All operating expenses are paid as incurred, except insurance, depreciation, and rent. Rent of $1,000 is paid at the beginning of each month, and the additional 10 percent of sales is paid quarterly on the 10th of the month following the end of the quarter. The next rent settlement date is January 10.
The company plans to buy some new fixtures for $12,000 cash in March.
Money can be borrowed and repaid in multiples of $2,000. Management wants to minimize borrowing and repay rapidly. Simple interest of 10 percent per annum is computed monthly but paid when the principal is repaid. Assume that borrowing occurs at the beginning, and repayments at the end, of the months in question. Compute interest to the nearest dollar.

Describe TWO ways in which the above law protects citizens against human
rights violations.
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The following data relate to Lebeaux Corporation for the year just ended: Sales revenue $ 750,000 Cost of goods sold: Variable portion 370,000 Fixed portion 110,000 Variable selling and administrative costs 50,000 Fixed selling and administrative cost 75,000 Which of the following statements is correct?
A) Lebeaux's variable-costing income statement would show a gross margin of $270,000.
B) Lebeaux's variable costing income statement would show a contribution margin of $330,000.
C) Lebeaux's absorption-costing income statement would show a contribution margin of $330,000.
D) Lebeaux's absorption costing income statement would show a gross margin of $330,000.
E) Lebeaux's absorption-costing income statement would show a gross margin of $145,000.

Firm K is planning on merging with Firm L. Firm K currently has 5,500 shares of stock outstanding at a market price of $28 a share. Firm L has 500 shares outstanding at a price of $16 a share. The merger will create $600 of synergy. Firm K plans to offer a sufficient number of its shares to acquire Firm L at an acquisition cost of $8,200. How many total shares will be outstanding in the merged firm

Using the following transactions, record journal entries, create financial statements, and assess the impact of each transaction on the financial statements.
Jun. 1 Jenna Aracel, the owner, invested $100,000 cash, office equipment with a value of $5,000, and $60,000 of drafting equipment to launch the company in exchange for common stock.
Jun. 2 The company purchased land worth $49,000 for an office by paying $6,300 cash and signing a long-term note payable for $42,700.
Jun. 3 The company purchased a portable building with $55,000 cash and moved it onto the land acquired on June 2.
Jun. 4 The company paid $3,000 cash for the premium on an 18-month insurance policy.
Jun. 5 The company completed and delivered a set of plans for a client and collected $6,200 cash.
Jun. 6 The company purchased $20,000 of additional drafting equipment by paying $9,500 cash and signing a long-term note payable for $10,500.
Jun. 7 The company completed $14,000 of engineering services for a client. This amount is to be received in 30 days.
Jun. 8 The company purchased $1,150 of additional office equipment on credit.
Jun. 9 The company completed engineering services for $22,000 on credit.
Jun. 10 The company received a bill for rent of equipment that was used on a recently completed job. The $1,333 rent cost must be paid within 30 days.
Jun. 12 The company collected $7,000 cash in partial payment from the client billed on June 9.
Jun. 14 The company paid $1,200 cash for wages to a drafting assistant.
Jun. 17 The company paid $1,150 cash to settle the account payable created in on June 8.
Jun. 20 The company paid $925 cash for minor maintenance of its drafting equipment.
Jun. 23 The company paid $9,480 cash in dividends.
Jun. 28 The company paid $1,200 cash for wages to a drafting assistant.
Jun. 29 The company paid $2,500 cash for advertisements on the web during June.

Required:
Journalize the above entires.

Using the money demand and money supply model, an open market purchase of Treasury securities by the Federal Reserve would cause the equilibrium interest rate to

Boswal Company uses the weighted-average method in its process costing system. The Assembly Department started the month with 6,000 units in its beginning work in process inventory that were 80% complete with respect to conversion costs. An additional 52,000 units were transferred in from the prior department during the month to begin processing in the Assembly Department. There were 18,000 units in the ending work in process inventory of the Assembly Department that were 20% complete with respect to conversion costs. What were the equivalent units for conversion costs in the Assembly Department for the month

Use the following tax rates and income brackets to answer the following question(s).
Tax Rate Individual Returns Joint Returns
10% $0 to $8,350 $0 to $16,700
15% $8,351 to $33,950 $16,701 to $67,900
25% $33,951 to $82,250 $67,901 to $137,050
28% $82,251 to $171,550 $137,051 to $208,850
33% $171,551 to $372,950 $208,851 to $372,950
35% Over $372,951 Over $372,951
Josh earned $89,700 in taxable income and files an individual tax return. What is the amount of Josh's taxes for the year?

You need to have $32,250 in 9 years. You can earn an annual interest rate of 4 percent for the first 5 years, and 4.6 percent for the next 4 years. How much do you have to deposit today? A. 23341.12 B. 20769.78 C. 22142.99 D. 24936.86

If variances are recorded in the accounts at the time the manufacturing costs are incurred, what does a debit balance in Direct Materials Price Variance represent?

The following activities occur at Greenwich Corporation. a company that manufactures a variety of products.a. Various individuals manage the parts inventories.b. A clerk in the factory issues purchase orders for a job.c. The personnel department trains new production workers.d. The factory’s general manager meets with other department heads such as marketing to coordinate plans.e. Direct labor workers assemble products.f. Engineers design new products.g. The materials storekeeper issues raw materials to be used in jobs.h. The maintenance department performs periodic preventive maintenance on general-use equipment.Required:Classify each of the activities above as either a unit-level, batch-level, Product-level, or organizationsustaining activity.

A store has two different coupons that customers can use. One coupon gives the customer $15 off their purchase, and the other coupon gives the customer 30% off of their purchase. Suppose they let a customer use both coupons and choose which coupon gets applied first. For this context, ignore sales tax.
Let f be the function that inputs a cost (in dollars) and outputs the cost after applying the "$15 off" coupon, and let g be the function that inputs a cost (in dollars) and outputs the cost after applying the "35% off" coupon.
a. Suppose acustomerwants to purchase asi 40 item and apply the si 5 of coupon first, and then the 35% or coupon How much will the item cost after applying the coupons?
b. Suppose a customer wants to purchase a S 140 item and apply the SI 5 off coupon first, and then the 35% or coupon Ure ction notation to represent how much the item will cost (dollars) after applying the coupons.
c. Suppose a customer wants to purchase a $140 item and apply the 35% om coupon first and then the sis of coupon How much will the item cost after applying the coupons?
d. Suppose a customer wants to purchase a S 140 item and apply the "35% or coupon first and then the "S 15 off coupon. Usefu ction notation to represent how much the item will cost (dollars) after applying the coupons.

Define organizational structures? And explain types of organizational structures?

A car dealer leases a small computer with software for $5,000 per year. As an alterative he could buy the computer for $7,500 and lease the software for $3,500 per year. Any time he would decide to switch to some other computer he could cancel software lease and sell the computer for $500.
If he buys the computer nad leases the software, what is the payback period?
a. 3 years
b. 4 years
c. 5 years
d. 6 years
If he kept the computer and software for 8 years, what would be the benefit-cost ratio, based on a 5% interest rate.
a. 1.5
b. 1.4
c. 1.3
d. 1.2