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Which of the following would be more valuable to you: a portfolio of stocks that rises in value when your income rises or a portfolio of stocks that rises in value when when your income falls? Why?  

An investment with a large spread between possible payoffs will generally have:

For the following instruments below, use the criteria for valuing a financial instrument to choose the one with the highest value: a. A U.S. Treasury bill that pays $5,000 in six months or a U.S. Treasury bill that pays $5,000 in three months. The Treasury bill that pays in _________ because a payment that is received _______________ in the future is more valuable.

Financial instruments are different from money because they:

It’s been a month since our last exam, and you all are still doing great! Take a quick moment to acknowledge your progress and accomplishments in the last month. List one new thing (big or small) that is worthy of celebrating (e.g., completing an assignment, exam, project, meeting a deadline, making a new connection, etc.). See you next week!

Without the use of money, workers in an economy would:

Why are techniques like cluster sampling and multistage sampling just as externally valid as simple random sampling?

Match each cell organelle to its function.

Imagine you conduct a study and find that there is a significant positive relationship between employee motivation and job performance. You share the news with your colleague who responds: “I bet that the relationship between employee motivation and job performance is due to intelligence. In other words, the relationship between employee motivation and job performance will no longer be statistically significant after you control for intelligence.” In order to determine if your colleague is accurate, you collect data on these three variables (motivation, performance, and intelligence) in a new sample of participants. The results of the appropriate statistical analysis can be found below.    The three variables involved in this study are listed below. Next to each variable, indicate whether each variable is a predictor or criterion variable. Employee Motivation [color1] Job Performance [color2] Intelligence [color3] What statistical analysis was conducted to answer the question: “Does the relationship between employee motivation and job performance hold after controlling for intelligence”? [color4] Based on the results provided, was your colleague accurate? (Yes or No) [color5]

Under what circumstances might you expect barter to reemerge in an economy that has fiat money as a means of payment?