On January 1, you sold short three round lots (that is, 300 shares) of Four Sisters stock at $50 per share. On March 1, a dividend of $3.00 per share was paid. On April 1, you covered the short sale by buying the stock at a price of $49 per share. You paid 50 cents per share in commissions for each transaction. What is the value of your account on April 1?

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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?

If the economy were in the contracting phase of the business cycle, how might that affect your ability to find work?