1. On order to study the relationship between the indices of aggregate final energy demand (Y), real DGP ( ), and real energy price ( ) for seven OECD countries for the period 1960 to 1982 were collected, and the following model is fitted and the R output is below. a. Interpret the coefficient estimate…

Question 1 (10%). Consider a hypothetical government security dealer named Banana Republic with the following balance sheet information. Market yields are in parentheses. a. What is the repricing gap if the planning period is 91 days? b. What is the impact over the next 91 days on net interest income if all interest rates decrease…

Compare & contrast the definitions and meanings of decision support systems (DSS), business intelligence (BI), and business analytics (BA). Explain why it is so difficult to have one definition of each. Finally, draw (use any software or scan something hand-drawn) a conceptual model of how the ideas fit together in your mind.

1. Discuss ways to use to support one’s currency if there is a financial/capital account deficit. What problems are there? What are the implications for monetary policy and freedom of capital movements? 2. There are two countries trading. The one (A) has its prices increasing by 25%, while the other (B) devalues by 25%, while…

An information security manager routinely monitored Web surfing among her company’s employees. She discovered that many employees were visiting the “sinful six” Web sites. (Note: The “sinful six” are websites with material related to pornography, gambling, hate, illegal activities, tastelessness, and violence). She then prepared a list of the employees and their surfing histories and…

1) Sam pays $600 for 30 days of guitar classes. He attends an hour-long class every day. If, instead of attending class, he works at a part-time job, he would be paid $5 an hour. Or, he could work at a fast-food outlet and  earn $9 per hour. Once he has already paid a nonrefundable…

1) ANSWER THIS QUESTION: The starting point of Friedman’s argument critiquing CSR is the fact that business executives act as the trustees of the corporate owners; they have not been hired by society or stakeholder groups, but are the firm owners’ agents that manage the day-to-day operations of the business for the benefit and in…

Create an entity-relationship (ER) diagram to represent a database that will help you manage the data. Your ER diagram should have the following characteristics:  At least 5 entities o All entities with a primary key  At least 3 relationships with foreign keys   Appropriate data types for all fields and at least 3 different data…

The following table is un-normalized. The original data set is in the Normalization Lab Data.xls file in your lab folder. For each question that requires you to re-write tables, re-write them in the Excel workbook and copy/paste your new table(s) in the appropriate sections below. Tables must include all data (not merely column headings). To…

Describe the basic design of the Balanced Scorecard and explain how it has evolved from the early 1990s to the present. Some say the term “Balanced Scorecard” has been hijacked and applied to many other kinds of applications that are not really true to the core underlying principles of the original Balanced Scorecard. Do you…