For Efficient Allocation of Resources ________ and ________ Must Be

question 47

Multiple Choice

For efficient allocation of resources ________ and ________ must be equal across firms.

• A) the marginal product of capital; the marginal product of labor
• B) nominal wages; real wages
• C) the capital stock; the labor stock
• D) unemployment must be equal to its natural rate; wages
• E) net exports should be zero; the marginal product of capital

Understand the cultural variance in attitudes towards gender and child rearing practices.

Understand how firms estimate the weighted average cost of capital (WACC) for individual projects, including the pure play approach and subjective approaches.

Learn to calculate a firm's after-tax cost of debt.

Recognize the impact of using book versus market values on WACC calculations and the importance of market-to-book ratios.

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Definitions:

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Poisson Approximation

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Probability

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