You are considering investing in a zero-coupon bond that will pay you its face value of $1000 in twelve years. If the bond is currently selling for $496.97, then the internal rate of return (IRR) for investing in this bond is closest to: (Remember zero-coupon bond pays only the face value at maturity.)

Each month, business today publishes a news piece about an innovative product, service, or business. such soft news is generally written by a freelance business writer and is known as a

(30 total points) suppose a firm’s production function is given by q = l1/2*k1/2. the marginal product of labor and the marginal product of capital are given by: mpl = 1/ 2 1/ 2 2l k , and mpk = 1/ 2 1/ 2 2k l . a) (12 points) if the price of labor is w = 48, and the price of capital is r = 12, how much labor and capital should the firm hire in order to minimize the cost of production if the firm wants to produce output q = 18?

Emerson has an associate degree. based on the bar chart below, how will his employment opportunities change from 2008 to 2018