Consider two cigarette companies, PM Inc. and Brown Inc. If neither company advertises, the two companies split the market and earn $50 million each. If they both advertise, they again split the market, but profits are lower by $10 million since each company must bear the cost of advertising. Yet if one company advertises while the other does not, the one that advertises attracts customers from the other. In this case, the company that advertises earns $60 million while the company that does not advertise earns only $30 million. Refer to Scenario 17-4. What will these two companies do if they behave as individual profit maximizers

Profits from using currency options and futures.on july 2, the two-month futures rate of the mexican peso contained a 2 percent discount (unannualized). there was a call option on pesos with an exercise price that was equal to the spot rate. there was also a put option on pesos with an exercise price equal to the spot rate. the premium on each of these options was 3 percent of the spot rate at that time. on september 2, the option expired. go to the oanda.com website (or any site that has foreign exchange rate quotations) and determine the direct quote of the mexican peso. you exercised the option on this date if it was feasible to do so. a. what was your net profit per unit if you had purchased the call option? b. what was your net profit per unit if you had purchased the put option? c. what was your net profit per unit if you had purchased a futures contract on july 2 that had a settlement date of september 2? d. what was your net profit per unit if you sold a futures contract on july 2 that had a settlement date of september 2

What is an equation of the line in slope intercept formm = 4 and the y-intercept is (0,5)y = 4x-5y = -5x +4y = 4x + 5y = 5x +4

This problem has been solved! see the answerthe xyz corporation is interested in possible differences in days worked by salaried employees in three departments in the financial area. a survey of 23 randomly chosen employees reveals the data shown below. because of the casual sampling methodology in this survey, the sample sizes are unequal. research question: are the mean annual attendance rates the same for employees in these three departments? days worked last year by 23 employees department days worked budgets (5 workers) 278 260 265 245 258 payables (10 workers) 205 270 220 240 255 217 266 239 240 228 pricing (8 workers) 240 258 233 256 233 242 244 249 picture click here for the excel data filefill in the missing data. (round your p-value to 4 decimal places, mean values to 1 decimal place and other answers to 2group mean n std. dev variancesbudgets payables pricing total one factor anova source ss df ms f p-value treatment error total