March 5‚ 2015 Services Marketing 1. The online dating industry is very competitive. There are a handful of dating websites such as match.com‚ EHarmony and OkCupid. These online websites are extremely popular and put up a good fight when compared to Plenty of Fish (PoF). Having been a past member of both PoF and OkCupid‚ it is tough for me to choose which one I prefer because they are both free and I enjoyed using them while I was out “playing the field”. With the tech world evolving so fast‚ the
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covered call options on the resources of the different countries that need the funds. An options strategy is when an investor holds a long position (owns the asset: in our case mineral) in an asset and writes (sells) call options on that same asset in an attempt to generate increased income from the asset. This strategy is often employed when an investor has a short-term neutral view on the asset and for this reason holds the asset long and simultaneously have a short position via the option to generate
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List three types of traders in futures‚ forward‚ and options markets i. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ii. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ iii. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 2. Which of the following is not true (circle one) a. When a CBOE call option on IBM is exercised‚ IBM issues more stock b. An American option can be exercised at any time during its life c. An call option will always be exercised at maturity if the underlying asset price is greater than the strike price d. A put option will always be exercised at maturity if the strike price
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the changes occur. Regarding stock options‚ fair value is determined using an option-pricing model that takes into account the stock price at the grant date‚ the exercise price‚ the expected life of the option‚ the volatility of the underlying stock and the expected dividends on it‚ and the risk-free interest rate over the expected life of the option. Under the provisions of the statement 123 of the FASB it is a requirement that companies report stock options on the income statement as an expense
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Applications of option pricing in corporate finance Option pricing is used in four major areas of corporate finance: • Real Options Suppose a company has a 1-year proprietary license to develop a software application for use in a new generation of wireless cellular telephones. Hiring programmers and marketing consultants to complete the project will cost $30 million. The good news is that if consumers love the new cell phones‚ there will be a tremendous demand for the software. The bad news
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Should the company implement the proposed employee stock option plan? In a typical stock option plan‚ the employee is offered a specific number of shares which he/she can exercise (buy) at some specified time in the future. The price at which the employee can buy the stock is equal to the market price at the time the stock option was granted (grant price). The employee ’s gain is equal to the market value of the stock at the time it is exercised‚ less the grant price. If the market price of the
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they are interested in meeting that person. At the same time‚ online dating has its downfalls because people can choose what they want others to read which can be very deceiving. As people start using the new apps provided to them like Tinder and eHarmony‚ they can create a false persona immediately while being able to manipulate the other person. Online dating had existed in the 1800s with advertisements and videos; however‚ deception was difficult to achieve because
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Executive Stock Options and IPO Underpricing Michelle Lowry• Smeal College of Business Penn State University E-mail: mlowry@psu.edu Phone: (814) 865-1483 Kevin J. Murphy Marshall School of Business University of Southern California E-mail: kjmurphy@usc.edu Phone: (213) 740-6553 July 31‚ 2006 Abstract In about one-third of US IPOs between 1996 and 2000‚ executives received stock options with an exercise price set equal to the IPO offer price (rather than a price determined by the market)
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completing 1 year of service or 1000 hours of service within the year. When a participant in an ESOP plan has at least 10 years of service or reaches the age of 55‚ he/she must be given the option of diversifying his/her account up to 25% of the value. At the age of 60‚ the employee is given a one time option to diversify up to 50% of the account. This ruling of for ESOP shares allocated after December 31‚ 1986. Formation ESOPs are qualified employee benefit plans that exist in a highly regulated
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network). To examine the attractiveness of the industry structure‚ a five forces analysis will offer us insight. First‚ we can consider buyers’ power. In this case buyers (prospective daters) do have some power in that there are a plethora of other options online (from Match to free sites)‚ as well as any number of venues in the real world. However‚ since they are individual consumers‚ they do not have scale power and must accept prices. Further‚ there is an overall opinion that meeting the right person
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