Identify the source of a consumer loans given below. a. Commercial banks
b. Consumer finance companies
c. Credit unions
d. Savings and associations
e. Sales finance companies
f. Life insurance companies

1. These institutions usually carry variable interest rates and need not be paid back.
2. These institutions generally offer higher interest rates than many other types of institutions because the vendor of the item being financed arranges the financing and must be paid for that service.
3. These are nonprofit organizations whose loan interest rates are relatively low.
4. These institutions mainly make mortgage loans.
5. Loans from these institutions are in high demand but given only to those who are good credit risks.

Which of the following pairs is most similar to each other? a. barter goods and fiat money b. digital money and barter goods c. fiat money and digital money d. commodity money and digital money

Bill dukes has $100,000 invested in a 2-stock portfolio. $62,500 is invested in stock x and the remainder is invested in stock y. x's beta is 1.50 and y's beta is 0.70. what is the portfolio's beta? do not round your intermediate calculations. round the final answer to 2 decimal places.

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?