Friendly's quick loans, inc., offers you $5.25 today but you must repay $6.45 when you get your paycheck in one week (or else). what is the effective annual return friendly's earns on this lending business? (do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e. g., 32.16.) effective annual return % if you were brave enough to ask, what apr would friendly's say you were paying? (do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e. g., 32.16.) annual percentage rate %

Ajustification for job training programs is that they improve worker productivity. suppose that you are asked to evaluate whether more job training makes workers more productive. however, rather than having data on individual workers, you have access to data on manufacturing firms in ohio. in particu- lar, for each firm, you have information on hours of job training per worker (training) and number of nondefective items produced per worker hour (output). (i) carefully state the ceteris paribus thought experiment underlying this policy question. (ii) does it seem likely that a firm’s decision to train its workers will be independent of worker characteristics? what are some of those measurable and unmeasurable worker characteristics? (iii) name a factor other than worker characteristics that can affect worker productivity. (iv) if you find a positive correlation between output and training, would you have convincingly established that job training makes workers more productive? explain.

In the supply-and-demand schedule shown above, at the lowest price of $50, producers supply music players and consumers demand music players.

The martinez legal firm (mlf) recently acquired a smaller competitor, miller and associates, which specializes in issues not previously covered by mlf, such as land use and intellectual property cases. given the increase in the firm's size and complexity, it is likely that its internal transaction costs willa. decrease. b. increase. c. become external transaction costs. d. be eliminated.