What are the benefits of using a credit card? what are the drawbacks of using a credit card?

What impact might an economic downturn have on a borrower’s fixed-rate mortgage? a. it might cause a borrower’s payments to go up. b. it might cause a borrower’s payments to go down. c. it has no impact because a fixed-rate mortgage cannot change. d. it has no impact because the economy does not affect interest rates.

Your company is starting a new r& d initiative: a development of a new drug that dramatically reduces the addiction to smoking. the expert team estimates the probability of developing the drug succesfully at 60% and a chance of losing the investment of 40%. if the project is successful, your company would earn profits (after deducting the investment) of 9,000 (thousand usd). if the development is unsuccessful, the whole investment will be lost -1,000 (thousand usd). your company's risk preference is given by the expected utility function: u(x) v1000 +x, where x is the monetary outcome of a project. calculate the expected profit of the project . calculate the expected utility of the project . find the certainty equivalent of this r& d initiative . find the risk premium of this r& d initiative e is the company risk-averse, risk-loving or risk-neutral? why do you think so?

Iceberg storage, a leading hard drive manufacturer, recently filed for bankruptcy. while most of iceberg's competitors were shifting away from physical data storage devices toward online cloud storage services, iceberg invested most of its retained earnings in the effort to improve its hard drives. once the hard-drive market drastically declined, iceberg storage was unable to capitalize on the new technology. which of the following does this scenario best illustrate a. causal ambiguity b. knowledge diffusion c. social complexity d. path dependence