Lippo In. reports the following capital structure on its balance sheet: Debt $ 20 m, Preferred stock $ 10 m, Common stock $ 20 m The debt has 10 years to maturity, carries a coupon rate of 6%, and sells at 86.58% of face value. The preferred shares have a face value of $100 each and pay an annual dividend of $11. They sell at $105 each. There are 1 million shares of common stock with a market price of $30 each. The stock has a beta of 1.2. The risk-free rate is 5%. Assume that the risk premium on the market portfolio is 6%. The tax rate is 40%. (Assume that flotation costs are negligible and bond coupons are paid annually.) a. What is the after-tax cost of debt, preferred stock and common stock?
b. What is the weighted average cost of capital for the firm, if the current capital structure based on market values is the optimal capital structure?

Suppose a firm faces a fixed price of output, 푝푝= 1200. the firm hires workers from a union at a daily wage, 푤푤, to produce output according to the production function 푞푞= 2퐸퐸12. there are 225 workers in the union. any union worker who does not work for this firm is guaranteed to find nonunion employment at a wage of $96 per day. a.what is the firm’s labor demand function? b.if the firm is allowed to choose 푤푤, but then the union decides how many workers to provide (up to 225) at that wage, what wage will the firm set? how many workers will the union provide? what is the firm’s output and profit? what is the total income of the 225 union workers? c.now suppose that the union sets the wage, but the firm decides how many workers to hire at that wage (up to 225). what wage will the union set to maximize the total income of all 225 workers? how many workers will the firm hire? what is the firm’s output and profit? what is the total income of the 225 union workers? [hint: to maximize total income of union, take the first order condition with respect to w and set equal to 0.]

Mystic bottling company bottles popular beverages in the bottling department. the beverages are produced by blending concentrate with water and sugar. the concentrate is purchased from a concentrate producer. the concentrate producer sets higher prices for the more popular concentrate flavors. a simplified bottling department cost of production report separating the cost of bottling the four flavors follows:

Gdp has grown in a country at 3% per year for the last 20 years. the labor force has grown at 2% per year and the quantity of physical capital has grown at 4% per year. a 1% increase in average physical capital per worker (other things equal) raises productivity by 0.3%. average education has not changed. how much has growing physical capital per worker contributed to productivity growth in this country? choose the correct answer from the following choices, and then select the submit answer button. answer choices 0.3% 0.6% 3.0% 6.0%