Unlike the Situation with Exchange Rate Risk, There Is No

question 40

True/False

Unlike the situation with exchange rate risk, there is no uncertainty on the part of management for shareholder preferences regarding interest rate risk. Shareholders prefer that managers hedge interest rate risk rather than having shareholders diversify away such risk through portfolio diversification.

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Definitions:

Resource Prices

The cost of inputs used in the production of goods and services, such as labor, capital, land, and raw materials.

Marginal Revenue Product

The extra income obtained through the use of an additional unit of a resource, for example, capital or labor.

Wage Rates

The amount of money paid to an employee by an employer for a unit of time worked or for a certain amount of work completed.

Labor Demand

Denotes the quantity of labor that employers are willing to hire at a given wage rate in a given time period.