Which of the following is a drawback of decentralizing a multinational company? A. It creates less responsiveness to the needs of a subunit's customers, suppliers, and employees. B. It may result in lack of control and results in increasing risk. C. It may lead to increased exchange rate risk. D. It may lead to an increase in bureaucracy.

When the federal reserve buys and sells bonds to member banks, it is called a. monetary policy b. reserve ratio c. interest rate adjustment d. open market operations

Suppose that two firms produce differentiated products and compete in prices. as in class, the two firms are located at two ends of a line one mile apart. consumers are evenly distributed along the line. the firms have identical marginal cost, $60. firm b produces a product with value $110 to consumers.firm a (located at 0 on the unit line) produces a higher quality product with value $120 to consumers. the cost of travel are directly related to the distance a consumer travels to purchase a good. if a consumerhas to travel a mile to purchase a good, the incur a cost of $20. if they have to travel x fraction of a mile, they incur a cost of $20x. (a) write down the expressions for how much a consumer at location d would value the products sold by firms a and b, if they set prices p_{a} and p_{b} ? (b) based on your expressions in (a), how much will be demanded from each firm if prices p_{a} and p_{b} are set? (c) what are the nash equilibrium prices?

Prepare beneish corporation's income statement and statement of stockholders' equity for year-end december 31, and its balance sheet as of december 31. there were no stock issuances or repurchases during the year. (do not use negative signs with your answers unless otherwise noted.)