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Ceteris paribus, current financial market returns will increase as _____. Group of answer choices a. the uncertainty about the productivity of capital goods increases and people become more risk averse b. the uncertainty about the productivity of capital goods increases and people become less risk averse c. the uncertainty about the productivity of capital goods decreases and people become more risk averse d. the uncertainty about the productivity of capital goods decreases and people become less risk averse

Firms will take investments only when expected risks are remunerated by expected profit. *   a. Incremental cash flows b. Efficient capital markets c. Risk-return trade-off d. All risks are not equal

Which of the following statements is correct? A. Investors appreciate illiquid assets in their portfolios as they can easily sell them off to cover margin calls. B. Liquid assets can quickly be converted into cash without changing prices too much. O C. Corporate bonds are among the most liquid financial assets as they trade at a very high frequency. D. Liquid assets tend to be cheaper as investors are not willing to pay for their liquidity benefits.

The efficient markets hypothesis True or False: The efficient markets hypothesis holds only if all investors are rational. False   True     Almost all financial theory and decision models assume that the financial markets are efficient. The informational efficiency of financial markets determines the ability of investors to “beat” the market and earn excess (or abnormal) returns on their investments. If the markets are efficient, they will react rapidly as new relevant information becomes available. Financial theorists have identified three levels of informational efficiency that reflect what information is incorporated in stock prices. Identify the form of capital market efficiency under the efficient market hypothesis described in the following statement: Current market prices reflect all information contained in past price movements.   This statement is consistent with: Strong form efficiency   Semistrong form efficiency   Weak form efficiency…

“When the stock market rises, investment spending isincreasing.” Is this statement true, false, or uncertain?Explain your answer

An increase in the riskiness of financial securities results in a_______ in the supply of loanable funds and hence shift in the supply curve to the_______ O Decrease, leftO Decrease, rightO Increase, left O Increase, right

a. Why do investors believe that low price-earnings stocks are trading cheap in the market b. An investment strategy that seeks to create a portfolio of stocks with low price-earnings ratios is believed to be able to earn excess market returns. Explain why this is not the case in perfect capital market under certainty.  c. Explain how in an imperfect capital market where there is risk, that a low price-earnings ratio strategy may be able to generate excess market returns.

Discuss how the concept of pure security, short selling and no arbitrage profit help establish and understand the equilibrium from the capital markets. Discuss different economic determinants security prices. Kindly answer the question as soon as possible.

8. The efficient markets hypothesis True or False: The efficient markets hypothesis holds only if all investors are rational. O False O True Almost all financial theory and decision models assume that the financial markets are efficient. The informational efficiency of financial markets determines the ability of investors to "beat" the market and earn excess (or abnormal) returns on their investments. If the markets are efficient, they will react rapidly as new relevant information becomes available. Financial theorists have identified three levels of informational efficiency that reflect what information is incorporated in stock prices. Identify the form of capital market efficiency under the efficient market hypothesis described in the following statement: Current market prices reflect all relevant information, whether it is known publicly or privately. This statement is consistent with: O Semistrong form efficiency O Strong form efficiency O Weak form efficiency

What are efficient markets? Imagine if the price of a stock is going up and financial markets are efficient what can you tell us about the nature of the stock? What if the markets are inefficient then how would you react to increasing prices for a particular stock?

According to the Random Walk hypothesis, security prices respond only to new information, which _________________.   must be available yesterday   must be released by an investment bank   cannot be predicted   must involve price or volume

Explain these three 1. PURCHASING POWER RISK - is perhaps, more difficult to recognize than the other types of risk. It is easy to observe the decline in the price of a stock or bond, but it is often more difficult to recognize that the purchasing power of the return you have earned on investment has declined (risen) as a result of inflation (deflation). 2. INTEREST RATE RISK - Because money has time value, fluctuations in interest rates will cause the value of an investment to fluctuate also. Although interest rate risk is most commonly associated with bond price movements, rising interest rates cause bond prices to decline and declining interest rates cause bond prices to rise. 3. BUSINESS RISK - refers to the uncertainty about the rate of a return caused by the nature of the business. The most frequently discussed causes of business risk are uncertainty about the firm's sales and operating expenses.

Why is the present value of an amount lesser than its value that is to be received (paid) in the future?  a.Deflation causes investors to lose purchasing power when their pesos are invested for greater than one year. b.Investors have the opportunity to earn positive rates of return, so any amount invested today should grow to a larger amount in the future. c.Investments generally are not as good as those who sell them suggest, so investors usually are not willing to pay full face value for such investments, thus the price is discounted. d.Because investors are taxed on the income received from investments they never will buy an investment for the amount expected to be received in the future. e.None of the choices is a correct answer.

A very high degree of capital market efficiency   a. mispricing never occurs.     b. means share prices always correctly reflect all available information.     c. the capital markets anticipate and price correctly all possible future payoffs and states of the world.     d. means share prices react quickly, completely, and without bias once new value-relevant information is available to the market.

1) Please indicate whether the following statements are true or false. In case of a false statement, briefly specify why the statement is false. 1. A real asset is different from a financial asset because a real asset must take a physical form. 2. In the financial market, an investor buys financial securities from dealers at the ask price and sells financial securities to dealers at the bid price. 3. Mankowitz portfolio theory assumes average investors have a utility function as an increasing and concave function of future portfolio return. 4. According to CAPM, all well-diversified portfolios on the capital market line have the same Sharpe ratio. 5. The Markowitz portfolio theory assumes that investors hold homogenous expectations about risk and returns of financial securities.

As an investor, how well do you think you could handle thevolatility of the stock market, knowing that the value of your investments could dropdramatically from time to time

1. How can investors make decisions about financial instruments that involve future payoffs? a) There is no uncertainty in market economies. b) This can be done only when the future payoffs are certain. c) Prices are determined by supply and demand which is always certain. d) Investors can use probabilities and risk measurement procedures to account for all possibilities.

1. How do you think today's low interest rate environment is impacting the time value of money? How might this change the value of an asset or liability? 2. What is the relationship between the concepts of net present value and shareholder wealth maximization? 3. Offer some reasons that the intrinsic value that you might calculate with the methodologies learned might yield a price different than what the stock trades at in the stock market. You can reference any method of valuation models in offering thoughts on why there might be differences between intrinsic and market values.

When the yield curve is upward sloping. banks are rewarded for investing more in short-term securities banks are rewarded for investing more in longer-term securities there is no benefit in investing in short-term versus long term (the yield is the same)

All of the following statements about an efficient market are correct EXCEPT: a. All financial transactions have an NPV of equal to zero b. A skilled individual may have sustainable above market returns c. The investor is compensated properly for risk borne d. The investor does not receive abnormal returns consistently

Arbitrage is the idea that one can (select the best answer): Group of answer choices   Buy and Sell different assets or packages of assets at different prices such you can earn a riskless profit without investing any capital. Earn rates of return greater than the average for the market by successfully “picking” stocks. Earn abnormal returns above what CAPM would predict for a particular security.

Applying the capital asset pricing model requires that one find appropriate inputs for the risk-free rate, the market rate of return (and market risk premium), and beta. Why is beta, in particular, difficult to pin down?   a. People don't have ready access to financial data and won't have any source for this information  in the near future. b. The major internet sources of financial data are notoriously unreliable. c. Hackers have been known to manipulate financial data for their own purposes. d. People must rely on historical performance information, and they have to assume that historical relationships continue into the future.

The only way the investor can get above average profit through investment in different markets by taking advantage of any abnormality when they occur and abnormality can be exploited because there will never be full market efficiency. One more important point that is for most of the investors, a passive, buy-and-hold, long-term strategy is appropriate because capital markets are mostly unpredictable with random movements in price up and down. "and the investment mantra is: - If intrinsic value is more and market price is less buy the security and if it is opposite sell the security Do you think this statement is correct? write your views by giving some examples of different forms.

Equity price risk is the risk that arises from security price Choose. - the risk of a Choose.. v in the value of a Choose... v or a portfolio. Equity price risk can be either systematic or Choose. v risk. In a global economic crisis, equity price risk is Choose.. because it affects multiple assets Choose. volatility decline classes. increase specific systematic security

Which statement is TRUE regarding the riskiness of money market instruments and capital market instruments? *       Changing economic prospects can cause very large changes in current stock values.   Distant cash flows for stocks can be known with certainty, make them riskier than money market instruments.   Money market instruments have predictable cash flows and mature in one year or less, so they are much more risky.   The prices of long-term capital market instruments are less sensitive to changes in interest rates than prices of short-term instruments.

SITIcation. 24. In the capital asset pricing model, the beta coefficient is a measure of index of the degree of movement of an asset's return in response to a change in risk and an A) diversifiable; the prime rate B) nondiversifiable; the Treasury bill rate C) diversifiable; the bond index rate D) nondiversifiable; the market return 5. Loading document MacBook Air DII DD 80 F7 F8 F9 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 呂