Exercise 14-12 on january 2, 2012, metlock corporation issued $1,250,000 of 10% bonds at 97 due december 31, 2021. interest on the bonds is payable annually each december 31. the discount on the bonds is also being amortized on a straight-line basis over the 10 years. (straight-line is not materially different in effect from the preferable "interest method".) the bonds are callable at 102 (i. e., at 102% of face amount), and on january 2, 2017, metlock called $750,000 face amount of the bonds and redeemed them. ignoring income taxes, compute the amount of loss, if any, to be recognized by metlock as a result of retiring the $750,000 of bonds in 2017. (round answer to 0 decimal places, e. g. 38,548.)

1. consider a two-firm industry. firm 1 (the incumbent) chooses a level of output qı. firm 2 (the potential entrant) observes qı and then chooses its level of output q2. the demand for the product is p 100 q, where q is the total output sold by the two firms which equals qi +q2. assume that the marginal cost of each firm is zero. a) find the subgame perfect equilibrium levels of qi and q2 keeping in mind that firm 1 chooses qi first and firm 2 observes qi and chooses its q2. find the profits of the two firms-n1 and t2- in the subgame perfect equilibrium. how do these numbers differ from the cournot equilibrium? b) for what level of qi would firm 2 be deterred from entering? would a rational firm 1 have an incentive to choose this level of qi? which entry condition does this market have: blockaded, deterred, or accommodated? now suppose that firm 2 has to incur a fixed cost of entry, f> 0. c) for what values of f will entry be blockaded? d) find out the entry deterring level of q, denoted by q1', a expression for firm l's profit, when entry is deterred, as a function of f. for what values of f would firm 1 use an entry deterring strategy?