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    Financial economics evaluates how economic resources are allocated within a market with uncertain conditions and applies economic methods in assessing the financial topics of time, transaction options, and information. This area of economics focuses on how interest rates, prices, shares, and financial variables interact. It intersects financial variables with economic variables and studies how a value of an asset is determined as well as topics in financial markets.

    Financial economics constructs models to locate possible implications from theories and assumptions about the market. An example of an idea in financial economics is the Capital Asset Pricing Model. This model is used to determine the price of assets based on their risk. Time, uncertainty, options, and information are variables that decisions are based off of in financial economics, demonstrated by an asset’s risk being a variable in determining its value.

    Financial economics is different from regular economics because it emphasizes the impact individual investments have on financial markets. Financial economists see prices and rates as being the outcomes of the choices to buy or sell that investors make. By using factors that alter investment decisions, financial economists predict the behaviour of financial markets. Market conditions can be predicted using financial economic theories and equations.

    Arbitrage, the process of making money through trade without the risk of losing money, is an important concept in financial economics. It relates to profit maximization and is used in parts of financial theory.

    As a quantitative discipline, financial economics uses econometrics and other mathematical processes in its theory development and practices.

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    Bonds

    Solutions: 350

    A bond is a tool used in financial economics to ensure debt security and function as fixed-income financial assets.

    Investments

    Solutions: 221

    In economics, an investment refers to saving a sum such as income or postponing consumption.

    The Time Value of Money

    Solutions: 104

    The time value of money follows the idea that the value of money at the present time has a greater amount of value than the same amount it would have in the future because of potential earning capacity.

    Personal Finance & Savings

    Solutions: 621

    Personal finance refers to the financial management of which an individual or a family is required to make to obtain, budget, save and spend monetary resources over time, taking into account various financial risks and future life events.

    Risk Management

    Solutions: 29

    Risk management is the process of identifying and analyzing the possibilities of financial risk and how to monitor and control the possibility of these risks occurring.

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    Brexit referendum in the EU

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    Continuous Income Stream

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    New Economics & Option Strategy

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    Balance Sheets, Double-Entry Bookkeeping and Currency Arbitrage Questions

    1. Describe, and illustrate with balance sheets of both the Bank of Canada and the direct clearers with the Canadian Payments Association, the change in the monetary base in response to the following transactions: a. A Bank of Canada open market sale to the public of $100 million of Government of Canada securities. b. A

    James Tobin Model for Money Demand

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    Virtual Banking, Interest Rate, Risk and Return for Portfolio

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    weighted average contribution margin

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    target cost

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    Completing a Break Even Analysis

    A company has $50 per unit in variable costs and $1,200,000 per year in fixed costs. Demand is estimated to be 110,000 units annually. What is the price if a markup of 40% on total cost is used to determine the price?

    effect on profit

    PowerDrive, Inc. produces a hard disk drive that sells for $175 per unit. The cost of producing 25,000 drives in the prior year was: Direct material $625,000 Direct labor 375,000 Variable overhead 125,000 Fixed overhead 1,500,000 Total cost $2,625,000 At the start of the current year, the company received an order f

    full cost

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    Profit of Tory Company

    Tory Company sells a single product. Troy estimates demand and costs at various activity levels as follows: Units Sold Price Total Variable Costs Fixed Costs 120,000 $48 $3,000,000 $1,000,000 159,000 $45 $3,550,000 $1,000,000 160,000 $40 $4,000,000 $1,000

    incremental savings

    Howell Corporation produces an executive jet for which it currently manufactures a fuel valve; the cost of the valve is indicated below: Cost per Unit Variable costs Direct material $920 Direct labor

    Joint Cost

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    Margin of safety

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    break even

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    Variable cost using the High- Low Method

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    budget

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    Incremental Costs

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    Incremental Profit or Loss

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    Capital Gain/Loss of Brighton Corp.

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    Stock Value Using CAPM and DDM

    Frazier Manufacturing paid a dividend last year of $2, which is expected to grow at a constant rate of 5%. Frazier has a beta of 1.3. If the market is returning 11% and the risk-free rate is 4%, calculate the value of Frazier's stock.

    Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) of Firm's Financing

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    NPV for an Art Gallery Expansion

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    Internal Rate of Return for a Company's New Development Project

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    Calculating the Dividend Gain

    Lee purchased a stock one year ago for $25. The stock is now worth $30, and the total return to Lee for owning the stock was 0.37. What is the dollar amount of dividends that he received for owning the stock during the year?