MACROECONOMICS W/CONNECT
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Diversifiable risk and non-diversifiable risk.
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A Company's stock currently pays a dividend of $5 dollars per year and you expect that dividend to grow by 3% every year, forever, such that next year you expect the dividend to be 5.15, to be 5.3045 the year after that, and so on. If your discount rate is 9%, a fair price for this stock today is_____.If your discount rate were to fall to 7%, holding all else the same, the fair price of the stock would increase to_________.
Suppose that, holding yield constant, investors are indifferent as to whether they hold bonds issued by the federal govemment or bonds issued by state and local governments (that is, they consider the bonds the same with respect to default risk, information costs, and liquidity) Suppose that state governments have issued perpetuities (or consoles) with $78 coupons and that the federal govemment has also issued perpetuities with $78 coupons. If the state and federal perpetuites both have after-tax yields of 8%, what are their pre-tax yields? (Assume that the relevant federal income tax rate is 31.13%)
* The pre-tax yield on the state perpetuity will be______________%
* The pre-tax yield on the federal perpetuity will be_______________%
What is the present value of a payment of $5,000 at the end of one year and a second payment of $7,000 at the end of two years if the interest rate is 5 percent?
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O B. $11,111.11
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