While attending an investment symposium, an investment adviser representative overhears a phone conversation of the keynote speaker. the conversation centers on regulatory problems of a publicly traded company. the representative knows the information is not public. which of the following actions by the representative would be acceptable? i. the representative informs the compliance officer of his firm about the conversation. ii. the representative may ask the speaker about the company during a question-and-answer period and then inform his clients. iii. the representative may include his thoughts about the company within his personal blog. iv. the representative may not enter trades for his own account based on the information, but may accept unsolicited trades by his clients. a. i and ii only b. i and iv only c. ii and iii only d. all of the above

If you were running a company, what are at least two things you could do to improve its productivity.

Lambert manufacturing has $100,000 to invest in either project a or project b. the following data are available on these projects (ignore income taxes.): project a project b cost of equipment needed now $100,000 $60,000 working capital investment needed now - $40,000 annual cash operating inflows $40,000 $35,000 salvage value of equipment in 6 years $10,000 - both projects will have a useful life of 6 years and the total cost approach to net present value analysis. at the end of 6 years, the working capital investment will be released for use elsewhere. lambert's required rate of return is 14%. the net present value of project b is:

Suppose that two firms produce differentiated products and compete in prices. as in class, the two firms are located at two ends of a line one mile apart. consumers are evenly distributed along the line. the firms have identical marginal cost, $60. firm b produces a product with value $110 to consumers.firm a (located at 0 on the unit line) produces a higher quality product with value $120 to consumers. the cost of travel are directly related to the distance a consumer travels to purchase a good. if a consumerhas to travel a mile to purchase a good, the incur a cost of $20. if they have to travel x fraction of a mile, they incur a cost of $20x. (a) write down the expressions for how much a consumer at location d would value the products sold by firms a and b, if they set prices p_{a} and p_{b} ? (b) based on your expressions in (a), how much will be demanded from each firm if prices p_{a} and p_{b} are set? (c) what are the nash equilibrium prices?