John Tierney Case study 8 11/2/2013 1) As a late mover into the US intercity bus market‚ what advantages and disadvantages does Megabus have? Megabus being a late mover in the US‚ has allowed the company to learn from past mistakes by companies such as Greyhound‚ who filed for bankruptcy in the mid 90’s and who lost most of it’s business due to poorly maintained terminals‚ high prices for fares and unsafe conditions. Megabus’s advantages include fares as lows as 1 dollar‚ free wi-fi
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Case IV: Arbitrage in the Government Bond Market Fixed income management (EBC4058) Tutor: Micheal Viehs Coordinator: Thomas Post Group C: de Vivo Paolo 6057152 Bing-Jun Zhu 6030493 Honglei Zhao 6051963 04/03/2013 INDEX I INTRODUCTION II BOND MARKET – A snapshot III TWO SYNTHETIC BONDS BUILD THE TWO SYNTHETIC BONDS PRICE OF THE SYNTHETIC BONDS IV HOW TO EXPLOIT THE ARBITRAGE OPPORTUNITY SPECULATING ON POSSIBLE REASONS V THE ADVANTAGES OF CALLABLE BONDS VI CONCLUSIONS VII PROBLEM SET
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forecast this depends only on Xn‚ Xn-1‚…… In simple exponential smoothing‚ the one-step-ahead predictor can be written in the recurrence form Xt(1)= Lt+ Tt+ It-p+1 Where the smoothing parameter‚ α‚ is usually constrained so that 0 < α <1. The Holt-Winters method (sometimes called the Winters method or seasonal exponential smoothing) generalizes this approach to deal with trend and seasonality. Let α‚ γ‚ δ denote three smoothing parameters and let p
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Chapter 1 Prices‚ Discount Factors‚ and Arbitrage STARTING WITH COUPON BONDS • Three aspects: In May 2010 the U.S. Treasury sold a bond with – a coupon rate of 2 % and – a maturity date of May 31‚ 2015 – a payment frequency of two a year‚ six months apart s of May 31‚ 2015” • This bond is called “ Coupon rate 9/5/2013 Coupon frequency‚ “s” is for “semi‐annual” L. Wu maturity 2 Cash Flow of the Bond • The unit for bond purchasing is $1‚000. • Suppose that an investor purchases $1m face
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reported dividend income of $ 4‚000 ($ 4 per share 1‚000 shares) and took a 70% dividends received deduction. 1) Have Coyote Corporation and Fox Corporation reported these transactions properly? Please explain. No they have not recorded them properly‚ according to Rev. Ruling 82-11‚ Coyote Corp. actually includes the dividend income for federal tax purposes because they are contractually entitled to receive the dividend on the date of record. Fox does not include the dividend income on their federal
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For the student’s convenience‚ the following material has been adapted‚ with permission‚ from Walt Disney Company’s Sleeping Beauty Bonds – Duration Analysis‚ Harvard Business School Case 9-294-083‚ Rev. July 13‚ 2000. Copyright © 1994 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. 1. What are the cash payments associated with the Sleeping Beauties? Who gets how much and when‚ per $100 of bonds issued? 2. What interest rate was used to calculate the price? 3. Next day‚ market yield
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Latar Belakang Investasi jalan tol merupakan salah satu sumber penerimaan penting bagi pemerintah untuk dalam hal penerimaan Anggaran Penerimaan Belanja Negara (APBN). Dalam hal ini salah satu perseroan yang melaksanakan pembangunan jalan tol ini ialah PT. Jasa Marga‚ Tbk. Jenis penerimaan yang didapatkan pemerintah dapat berbentuk pajak‚ yang berupa PPN konstruksi‚ PPN pembebasan tanah‚ PPN kegiatan operasional‚ PBB jalan tol‚ Pajak Penghasilan‚ Pajak perseroan‚ Dividen Jasa Marga‚ residual
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Patricia Pupo Professor Matthew Sang PHI 2604 26 November 2014 Income Distribution This essay will discuss if current income distribution has a negative impact in the society because of the inequality that exists. What is income distribution? It is how a national income is split between different groups. Rights theory worries as the name says it‚ about people rights‚ and action is good if it respects the people’s rights. There are two kinds of rights‚ positive and negative. The first one relates
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The exploitation of low-income countries by high-income countries INTRODUCTION Over the years living conditions around the world have improved‚ even in the poorest of countries. Despite this there is still a clear difference between high-income countries and low-income countries. High-income countries are defined as countries with very productive economic systems where the majority of people have fairly high incomes‚ while low-income countries are defineed as having low economic systems
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20: Income Inequality and Poverty 1) Income Inequality and Poverty A person’s earnings depend on the supply and demand for that person’s labor‚ which in turn depend on natural ability‚ human capital‚ compensating differentials‚ discrimination‚ and so on. 2) THE MEASUREMENT OF INEQUALITY How much inequality is there in our society? How many people live in poverty? What problems arise in measuring the amount of inequality? How often do people move among income classes? 3) Table 1 The Distribution
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