Econ 252 Spring 2011 Final Exam Econ 252 - Financial Markets Professor Robert Shiller Spring 2011 Professor Robert Shiller Final Exam Instructions: • • • • • • • • The exam consists of a total of twelve pages including this coversheet. There are two parts to this exam. In Part I‚ answer any sixteen of the twenty questions‚ five minutes each. The total for Part I is 80 minutes. In Part II‚ answer all seven questions. The total for Part II is 70 minutes.
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Section 1 -Saving and Investing Investment is the act of redirecting resources from being consumed today so that they create benefits in the future. The Financial System: Network of structures and mechanisms that allows transfer of money between savers and borrowers. Financial assets are like securities When people save‚ they are‚ in essence‚ lending funds to others weather they put cash in a savings account‚ purchase a certificate of deposit‚ or buy a corporate of government
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assets are financed. The international model of banking system gather their funds via domestic market and then allocated to borrowers in a foreign market. By contrast‚ Global Banking generates funds in a foreign market and finances its claims on borrower in the same foreign market. In this way we can see that international bank concentrates on cross border business while global bank mainly focus on local market businesses. b/ Identify five ways in which a bank headquartered in the USA can fund loans
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Jason Hurley FINA 3144‚ Dr. Glegg Financial Markets Excel Project Part 1: 1. The bond prices are all different due to the coupon payments and the years left to maturity all being different for each bond. Since each bond’s coupon rate is different‚ it has a direct effect on the coupon payments for each bond‚ which makes each bond price different. 2. The duration for each bond tells you what is the total percentage increase or decrease each year for the weighted values of each bond
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to financial markets ------------------------------------------------- Essay questions 1. Direct finance: Surplus economic units lend their funds “direct” to deficit economic units which are the ultimate borrowers. Financial institutions may facilitate this process by providing financial services in return for fees and commissions. The financial assets issued by the deficit units are held by the surplus units. Indirect finance: Surplus economic units lend their funds to financial institutions
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A financial market is a market in which people and entities can trade financial securities‚ commodities‚ and other fungible items of value at low transaction costs and at prices that reflect supply and demand. Securities include stocks and bonds‚ and commodities include precious metals or agricultural goods. There are both general markets (where many commodities are traded) and specialized markets (where only one commodity is traded). Markets work by placing many interested buyers and sellers‚ including
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Lim Jun Xian Clarence Ph: 81118338 Business Computing 1 ISYS 2059 Lim Jun Xian Clarence s9104475G Presents: MONTEGO BAY APARTMENTS Workshop Lecturer: Dr Lawrence Sim Workshop Timing: 12-3pm (Note: Windows 7) * 1 Executive Summary 3 2 Body 3 2.1 Why create the spreadsheet? 3 2.2 What the spreadsheet says. 4 2.3 The What If Analysis 6 3 Appendices 8 4 Conclusion/Recommendations 9 * Executive Summary The
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SOX Compliance The Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002 (passed on 30 July 2002) is a federal law of United States that has established new and improved regulations for all the US companies in reaction to the growing financial statement frauds‚ which resulted in huge losses to investors. So it was an attempt by US congress to reinforce corporate governance and restore the faith of the investors in the US financial reporting system. It made extensive changes in the freedom and productiveness of the auditors
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1. How can the adverse selection problem explain why you are more likely to make a loan to a family member than to a stranger? Because you know your family member better than a stranger‚ you know more about the borrower’s honesty‚ propensity for risk taking‚ and other traits. There is less asymmetric information than with a stranger and less likelihood of an adverse selection problem‚ with the result that you are more likely to lend to the family member. 2. If mortgage rates rise from 5%
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Regulatory Costs: The Case of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act By James A. Millar and B. Wade Bowen The article first begins with an introduction of how and why the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) came about as a result of large scandals such as Enron and Tyco. Many companies believed that the costs of these new regulations exceeded the benefits‚ which is found prevalent with the addition of section 404 which required an auditor’s opinion on annual financial reports. In particular‚ the article is focused
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