You are analyzing the cost of debt for a firm. You know that the firm’s 14-year maturity, 6.6 percent coupon bonds are selling at a price of $609.88. The bonds pay interest semiannually. If these bonds are the only debt outstanding for the firm, answer the following questions.

As a result of a labeling mistake at the chemical factory, a farmer accidentally sprays weedkiller rather than fertilizer on half her land. as a result, she loses half of her productive farmland. if the property of diminishing returns applies to all factors of production, she should expect to seea. a decrease in the marginal productivity of her remaining land and an increase in the marginal productivity of her labor. b. an increase in the marginal productivity of her remaining land and an increase in the marginal productivity of her labor. c. an increase in the marginal productivity of her remaining land and a decrease in the marginal productivity of her labor. d. a decrease in the marginal productivity of her remaining land and a decrease in the marginal productivity of her labor.

Consider a firm with a contract to sell an asset for $149,000 four years from now. the asset costs $85,000 to produce today. a. given a relevant discount rate of 14 percent per year, calculate the profit the firm will make on this asset. (a loss should be indicated by a minus sign. do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e. g., 32.16.) b. at what rate does the firm just break even?

Although most economic contractions or recessions last sixteen months, the most recent recessionary period referred to as the great recession lasted