Natural capital accounting of ecosystem services in order to evaluate the social return on environmental investment.

Eileen's elegant earrings produces pairs of earrings for its mail order catalogue business. each pair is shipped in a separate box. she rents a small room for $150 a week in the downtown business district that serves as her factory. she can hire workers for $275 a week. there are no implicit costs. what is the marginal product of the second worker?

Variable rate cd’s = $90 treasury bills = $150 discount loans = $20 treasury notes = $100 fixed rate cds = $160 money market deposit accts. = $140 savings deposits = $90 fed funds borrowing = $40 variable rate mortgage loans $140 demand deposits = $40 primary reserves = $50 fixed rate loans = $210 fed funds lending = $50 equity capital = $120 a. develop a balance sheet from the above data. be sure to divide your balance sheet into rate-sensitive assets and liabilities as we did in class and in the examples. b. perform a standard gap analysis and a duration analysis using the above data if you have a 1.15% decrease in interest rates and an average duration of assets of 5.4 years and an average duration of liabilities of 3.8 years. c. indicate if this bank will remain solvent after the valuation changes. if so, indicate the new level of equity capital after the valuation changes. if not, indicate the amount of the shortage in equity capital.

Experienced problem solvers always consider both the value and units of their answer to a problem. why?