As CEO of TX Instruments you are considering financing your Australian operations with debt. US 10-year treasuries are currently at 2.5% and Australian 10-year treasuries are at 5.0%. You can borrow at 4.25% domestically (175 bp over the US 10 year treasury) or at 7.25% (225 bp over the Australian treasury) in Australian dollars. Assume that there exists an Australian company that can borrow at 100 bp over the Australian treasury and at 125 bp over the US treasury. What is your Quality Spread Differential (QSD) in basis points

There are three factors that can affect the shape of the treasury yield curve (r* t , ip t , and mrp t ) and five factors that can affect the shape of the corporate yield curve (r* t , ip t , mrp t , drp t , and lp t ). the yield curve reflects the aggregation of the impacts from these factors. suppose the real risk-free rate and inflation rate are expected to remain at their current levels throughout the foreseeable future. consider all factors that affect the yield curve. then identify which of the following shapes that the us treasury yield curve can take. check all that apply.a. downward-sloping yield curveb. upward-sloping yield curvec. inverted yield curve

6. why the aggregate supply curve slopes upward in the short run in the short run, the quantity of output that firms supply can deviate from the natural level of output if the actual price level in the economy deviates from the expected price level. several theories explain how this might happen. for example, the misperceptions theory asserts that changes in the price level can temporarily mislead firms about what is happening to their output prices. consider a soybean farmer who expects a price level of 100 in the coming year. if the actual price level turns out to be 90, soybean prices will , and if the farmer mistakenly assumes that the price of soybeans declined relative to other prices of goods and services, she will respond by the quantity of soybeans supplied. if other producers in this economy mistake changes in the price level for changes in their relative prices, the unexpected decrease in the price level causes the quantity of output supplied to the natural level of output in the short run.

When the two countries did not specialize, the total production of jeans was 23 million pairs per month, and the total production of corn was 68 million bushels per month. because of specialization, the total production of jeans has increased by million pairs per month, and the total production of corn has increased by million bushels per month. because the two countries produce more jeans and more corn under specialization, each country is able to gain from trade?