Explain what appears to be the improved trade-off between inflation and unemployment in the U.S. What factors might improve the trade-off? What factors would make it worse?

"Construct Stephenson’s market value balance sheet after the equity issue, but before the purchase has been made. a. How many shares of common stock does Stephenson have outstanding? b. What is the price per share of the firm’s stock? "

"a. Compute the coefficient of price elasticity for the price ranges given in the schedule and complete the first column of the table. b. What do you notice about the algebraic sign of the values you have just computed? Why is this so? c. Break the demand schedule into the three ranges of the price-elasticity of demand. (You can only approximate the three ranges.) d. Fill the total revenue (spending) column. e. How does total spending vary with the price of bo...

"(Cash flows and NPV for a new project) Syracuse Roadbuilding Company is considering the purchase of a new tandem box dump truck. The truck costs$95,000, and an additional$5,000 is needed to paint it with the firm logo and install radio equipment. Assume the truck falls into the MACRS three-year class. The truck will generate no additional revenues, but it will reduce cash operating expenses by$35,000 per year. The truck will be sold for$40,000 after its five-year life. An inventory invest...

"Using the line AB given below and the instructions outlined. Construct a square ABCD.Bisect the side AB and the side CD and label the new points where the lines are bisected at point X and point Y respectively.Join point X and point Y with a straight line, what do you notice this does to the Square?Extend the side DC out pass the point C by about 6cm.Now draw a perpendicular from point W down to the line AB which has been extended to meet this p...

Each unit of production requires three pounds of direct material.  The company’s policy is to begin each quarter with an inventory of direct materials equal to 30 percent of that quarter’s direct material requirements.  Compute budgeted direct materials purchases for the third quarter.

"Suppose that Demand and Supply curves for coffee bean is given by QD=10-P Qs=P Where Q denotes the tons of coffee bean and P denotes the prioce per ton. "

"a) What is the maximum dividend per share that the firm can pay? (Assume that legal capital includes all paid-in-capital.) b) If the firm has $160,000 in cash, what is the largest per-share dividend it can pay without borrowing? c) Indicate the accounts and changes, if any, that will result if the firm pays the dividends indicated in parts a and b. d) Indicate the effects of $80,000 cash dividend on stockholders’ equity. "

"Consider the following LP problem: Maximize profit = 1X1 + 1X2 Subject to 2X1 + 1X2 ≤ 100       1X1 + 2X2 ≤ 100 a) What is the optimal solution to this problem? Solve it graphically. b) If a technical breakthrough occurred that raised the profit per unit of X1 to $3, would this affect the optimal solution? c) Instead of an increase in the profit coefficient X1 to $3, suppose the profit was overestimated and should have onl...

"A 1200 kg car carrying two 110 kg football players travels over a bumpy ""washboard"" road with the bumps spaced 3.1m apart. The driver finds that the car bounces up and down with maximum amplitude when he drives at a speed of 4.2 m/s (approx 9.4 mph). The car then stops and picks up three more 110 kg passengers.By how much does the car body sag on its suspension when these three additional passengers get in?Express your answer using two significant figures."

"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? "

Suppose that now the market is monopolized (e.g., a cartel is formed that determines the price and output as a monopolist would and allocates production equally to each member).  Draw a figure showing the monopolist's equilibrium output and price.