You run a construction firm. You have just won a contract to build a government office complex. Building it will require an investment of $10.0 million today and $5.0 million in one year. The government will pay you S20.O million in one year upon the building's completion. Suppose the interest rate is 10.0%. Required:
a. What is the NPV of this opportunity?
b. How can your firm turn this NPV into cash today?

What could explain why a decrease in taxes could lead to a less-than-proportionate increase in output? a. as a result of diminishing returns to current consumption, consumers may choose to spread the extra spending over the long term rather than consuming the proceeds of a tax cut all at once. b. consumers may choose to save much of the tax cut in anticipation of having to pay higher taxes in the future. c. a decrease in taxes will necessitate lower government outlays, thus largely offsetting the higher consumption expenditures of households. d. all of the above. e. a and b only.