The price of a stock is $55 at the beginning of the year and $50 at the end of the year. if the stock paid a $3 dividend and inflation was 3%, what is the real holding-period return for the year?

Marco works in the marketing department of a luxury fashion brand. he is making a presentation on the success of a recent marketing campaign that included a fashion show. which slide elements can he use to include photographs and footage of the fashion show in his presentation? marco can use the: table images audio option to include photographs and the: flowcharts images video option to include footage of the fashion show.

When the benefit of one particular use of a resource is greater than the opportunity cost, then that resource is which of the following? a. not scarce b. being used efficiently c. a normal good d. non-excludable

3. saving two consumers, larry and jeff, have utility functions defined over the two periods of their lives: middle age (period zero) and retirement (period 1). they have the same income in period 0 of m dollars and they will not earn income in period 1. the interest rate they face is r. larry’s and jeff’s utility functions are as follow. = 0.5 + 0.5 and = 0.5 + 0.5 for each person is between zero and one and represents each consumer’s temporal discount econ 340: intermediate microeconomics. ben van kammen: purdue university. rate. a. write the budget constraint that applies to both jeff and larry in terms of consumption in each period and ), interest rate, and m. b. what is larry’s and what is jeff’s marginal rate of intertemporal substitution? c. what is the slope of the budget constraint? d. write each consumer’s condition for lifetime utility maximization. e. re-arrange the conditions from part (d) to solve for the ratio, . f. if > which consumer will save more of his middle age income? g. if > 1 1+ , in which period will larry consume more: = 0 or = 1?