Your options for shipping $101 comma 390 of machine parts from baltimore to kuala lumpur, malaysia, are (1) use a ship that will take 30 days at a cost of $3 comma 830, or (2) truck the parts to los angeles and then ship at a total cost of $4 comma 850. the second option will take only 18 days. you are paid via a letter of credit the day the parts arrive. your holding cost is estimated at 30% of the value per year. a) ▼ alternative 1 alternative 2 is more economical, with a daily holding cost of $ nothing. (enter your response rounded to two decimal places.) b) what issues are not included in the data presented? a. for each additional day it takes to deliver the parts, customer satisfaction is likely to decrease. b. for each additional day it takes to deliver the parts, you forgo the interest you could have earned on the payment. c. for each additional day it takes to deliver the parts, total fuel costs for shipping increase.

A) plot the m1 and m2 money stock in the us from 1990-2015. (hint: you may use the data tools provided by fred.) (b) plot the nominal interest rate from 1960 to 2014. (hint: you can either use the daily interest rates for selected u.s. treasury, private money market and capital market instruments from or the effective federal funds rate fromfred.) (c) the consumer price index (cpi) is a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and services. intuitively, the cpi represents the cost of living or the average price level. plot the cpi from 1960 to 2013.(d) the inflation rate is the yearly percentage change in the average price level. in practice, we usually use the percentage change in the cpi to compute the inflation rate. plot the inflation rate from 1960 to 2013.(e) explain the difference between the ex-ante and ex-post real interest rate. use the fisher equation to compute the ex-post real interest rate. plot the nominal interest rate and the ex-post real interest rate from 1960 to 2013 in the same graph.

Ancho corp. is an automobile company whose core competency lies in manufacturing petrol- and diesel- based cars. the company realizes that more of its potential customers are switching to electric cars. the r& d department of the company acquires competencies in developing electric cars and launches its first hybrid car, which uses both gas and electricity. in this scenario, ancho is primarilya. leveraging new core competencies to improve current market position. b. redeploying existing core competencies to compete in future markets. c. unlearning existing core competencies to create and compete in markets of the future. d. building new core competencies to protect and extend current market position

Mikkelson corporation's stock had a required return of 12.50% last year, when the risk-free rate was 3% and the market risk premium was 4.75%. then an increase in investor risk aversion caused the market risk premium to rise by 2%. the risk-free rate and the firm's beta remain unchanged. what is the company's new required rate of return? (hint: first calculate the beta, then find the required return.) do not round your intermediate calculations.