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dejastew

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Suppose a firm has 100 machines and 100 shares outstanding. The price per share is 2, and the purchase price of a machine is 1. So Tobin's q is equal to
 
  A) 2.
  B) 1.
  C) 0.5.
  D) 1.5.

Question 2

Let: (1 ) Pt be the price of one unit of a market basket of goods (i.e., a composite commodity) in year t; (2 ) Pet+1 be the expected price of one unit of a market basket of goods in year t + 1; (3 ) et+1 be the expected rate of inflation between period t and t + 1; and (4 ) it be the one-year nominal interest rate. Suppose an individual borrows the equivalent of one unit of a composite commodity today. Given this information, which of the following expressions represents (i.e., is equal to) the amount of the composite commodity one must repay in one year?
 
  A) (1 + it)(Pet+1)/(Pt)
  B) (1 + et+1)/(1 + it)
  C) (1 + et+1)/(1 + it) - 1
  D) (1 + it)(Pt)/(Pet+1) - 1
  E) none of the above



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Answer to Question 1

A

Answer to Question 2

A



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