Corporate Finance (4th Edition) (Pearson Series in Finance) - Standalone book
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Author: Jonathan Berk, Peter DeMarzo
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Chapter 16, Problem 7P
You have received two job offers. Firm A offers to pay you $85,000 per year for two years. Firm B offers to pay you $90,000 for two years. Both jobs are equivalent. Suppose that firm A’s contract is certain, but that firm B has a 50% chance of going bankrupt at the end of the year. In that event, it will cancel your contract and pay you the lowest amount possible for you to not quit. If you did quit, you expect you could find a new job paying $85,000 per year, but you would be
- a. Say you took the job at firm B. What is the least firm B can pay you next year in order to match what you would earn if you quit?
- b. Given your answer to part (a), and assuming your cost of capital is 5%, which offer pays you a higher
present value of your expected wage? - c. Based on this example, discuss one reason why firms with a higher risk of bankruptcy may need to offer higher wages to attract employees.
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Ch. 16.1 - Prob. 1CCCh. 16.1 - Does the risk of default reduce the value of the...Ch. 16.2 - If a firm files for bankruptcy under Chapter 11 of...Ch. 16.2 - Why are the losses of debt holders whose claims...Ch. 16.3 - Prob. 1CCCh. 16.3 - True or False: If bankruptcy costs are only...Ch. 16.4 - Prob. 1CCCh. 16.4 - According to the trade-off theory, all else being...Ch. 16.5 - Prob. 1CCCh. 16.5 - Why would debt holders desire covenants that...
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