Suppose that you have just borrowed $225,000 using an adjustable-rate mortgage. Suppose that the payment is scheduled to adjust at the end of every year. Use the information provided below to calculate the year 2 payment for this loan. Index rate: 1-year CMT (Currently 1.01% and will increase to 2.06% at the end of the 1st year)
Margin: 275 basis points
Periodic Cap: 2 percentage points
Lifetime Cap: 5 percentage points
Amortization: 30 years with monthly payments and compounding
a. $1,107
b. $1,160
c. $1,296
d. $1,178

Upscale hotels in the united states recently cut their prices by 20 percent in an effort to bolster dwindling occupancy rates among business travelers. a survey performed by a major research organization indicated that businesses are wary of current economic conditions and are now resorting to electronic media, such as the internet and the telephone, to transact business. assume a company's budget permits it to spend $5,000 per month on either business travel or electronic media to transact business. graphically illustrate how a 20 percent decline in the price of business travel would impact this company's budget set if the price of business travel was initially $1,000 per trip and the price of electronic media was $500 per hour. suppose that, after the price of business travel drops, the company issues a report indicating that its marginal rate of substitution between electronic media and business travel is 1. is the company allocating resources efficiently? explain.

In 2017, "a public university was awarded a federal reimbursement grant" of $18 million to carry out research. of this, $12 million was intended to cover direct costs and $6 million to cover overhead. in a particular year, the university incurred $4 million in allowable direct costs and received $3.4 million from the federal government. it expected to incur the remaining costs and collect the remaining balance in 2018. for 2017 it should recognize revenues from the grant of

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