First Call, Inc., a smartphone company, plans to build a factory—one that costs $10 million if the real interest rate is 6 percent a year; a larger factory that costs $12 million if the real interest rate is 5 percent a year; or a smaller one that costs $8 million if the real interest rate is 7 percent a year. Draw a graph of First Call’s demand for loanable funds curve.

Burke enterprises is considering a machine costing $30 billion that will result in initial after-tax cash savings of $3.7 billion at the end of the first year, and these savings will grow at a rate of 2 percent per year for 11 years. after 11 years, the company can sell the parts for $5 billion. burke has a target debt/equity ratio of 1.2, a beta of 1.79. you estimate that the return on the market is 7.5% and t-bills are currently yielding 2.5%. burke has two issuances of bonds outstanding. the first has 200,000 bonds trading at 98% of par, with coupons of 5%, face of $1000, and maturity of 5 years. the second has 500,000 bonds trading at par, with coupons of 7.5%, face of $1000, and maturity of 12 years. kate, the ceo, usually applies an adjustment factor to the discount rate of +2 for such highly innovative projects. should the company take on the project?

Which of the following best describes why you need to establish goals for your program?

Acoase solution to a problem of externality ensures that a socially efficient outcome is to