In 2012, the campbell soup company acquired bolthouse farms for $1.55 billion. this acquisition increased the level of vertical integration in campbell, as bolthouse farms owned and operated extensive farming operations where it produced many food items used in campbell's products. suppose that the value of produce provided by these farms after the acquisition would be $80 million per year for campbell and that, in addition, campbell could save $20 million per year in costs it would otherwise spend in searching for and negotiating over equivalent produce. however, the transaction cost of the acquisition (lawyers' fees, re-locating some production facilities, paying severance to unnecessary employees, etc.) required a one-time payment of $30 million. assume that campbell receives the produce related benefits in perpetuity. if the interest rate used to discount future earnings is 5%, what is the present value of net benefits to campbell? the present value (pv) of net benefits to campbell is

Suppose that each firm in a competitive industry has the following costs: total cost: tc=50+12q2tc=50+12q2 marginal cost: mc=qmc=q where qq is an individual firm's quantity produced. the market demand curve for this product is: demand qd=160−4pqd=160−4p where pp is the price and qq is the total quantity of the good. each firm's fixed cost is.

Richardson hired j.c. flood company, a plumbing contractor, to correct a stoppage in the sewer line of her house. the plumbing company's 'snake' device, used to clear the line leading to the main sewer, became caught in the underground line. to release it, the company excavated a portion of the sewer line in richardson's backyard. in the process, the company discovered numerous leaks in a rusty, defective water pipe that ran parallel with the sewer line. to meet public regulations, the water pipe, of a type no longer approved for such service, had to be replaced either then or later, when the yard would have to be excavated again. the plumbing company proceeded to repair the water pipe. though richardson inspected the company's work daily and did not express any objection to the extra work involved in replacing the water pipe, she refused to pay any part of the total bill after the company completed the entire operation. j.c. flood company then sued richardson for the costs of labor and material it had furnished. (c) for what, if anything, should richardson be liable? explain."

Stock a has a beta of 1.2 and a standard deviation of 20%. stock b has a beta of 0.8 and a standard deviation of 25%. portfolio p has $200,000 consisting of $100,000 invested in stock a and $100,000 in stock b. which of the following statements is correct? (assume that the stocks are in equilibrium.) (a) stock b has a higher required rate of return than stock a. (b) portfolio p has a standard deviation of 22.5%. (c) portfolio p has a beta equal to 1.0. (d) more information is needed to determine the portfolio's beta. (e) stock a's returns are less highly correlated with the returns on most other stocks than are b's returns.