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Unit 1 Lecture Flashcards

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1
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Classical Microeconomics view point

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Inputs–|Production Function|–Output

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Legal Viewpoint

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Dealing with the legalities of ownership and control

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Sole Ads

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easier to start, least regulated, owner keeps all profits, taxed once

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Sole Dis

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limited life to owner, equity capital limed to personal wealth, unlimited liability, difficult to sell

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Partner Ad

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two or more owners, more capital available, easier to start, taxed once

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Partner Dis

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unlimited liability, dissolves when one dies or wishes to sell, difficult to transfer

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Corporation Adv

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limited liability, unlimited life, sep of owner and management, transfer is easy, easier to raise capital

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Corporation Dis

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Sep of management and ownership (agency problems), double taxation

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Latin word for corporation

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corpus, which means body

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Backstory of limited liability

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Took hold in 1811 in corporate law in NY, represented significant invention

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Limited Liability

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a corporation that guarantees that you as a shareholder will not be liable for the debts of the company

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12
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Goal of the firm

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Maximize the market value of the existing owners equity

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Finance

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The study of valuation and management of risk

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Finance points (5)

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Pillar of civilized society, a structure, allocating resources, incentivizing people to do productive things, managing risks

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Basic areas of finance

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Behavioral, Financial engineering, financial econometrics, and market microstructure

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Behavioral finance

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study of influence of psychology on the behavior of investors or financial analysts

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Financial Engineering

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use of mathematical techniques to solve financial problesm

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Financial econometrics

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application of statistical methods to financial market data

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market microstructure

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the study of financial markets and how the operate

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Corporate finance should answer questions in which three areas

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Capital budgeting, capital structure, and working capital managment

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Capital budgeting Q

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What long term investments should the firm take on

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Capital Structure Q

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Where will we get the long term financing to pay for the investment

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Working capital management Q

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How will we manage the everyday financial activities of the firm? How much inventory should the firm carry? What credit policy is best? Where will we get our short-term loans?

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Principles 1-3

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Risk-Return Trade-Off, The time value of money, Cash-Not profits-Is king

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Principles 4-6

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Incremental cash flows, the curse of competitive markets, efficient capital markets

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Principes 7-9

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The agency problem, Taxes Blas business decisions, All risk is not equal

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Principal 10

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Ethical behavior is doing the right thing, and ethical dilemmas are everywhere in finance

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Asset

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A physical property or intangible right that has economic value

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Real asset

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a physical property that provides owner with physical service

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The material wealth of a society is determined by

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the productive capacity of its economy

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Capacity

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a function of the real assets of the economy

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real assets generate

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net income to the economy

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financial assets define the

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allocation of income or wealth among investors

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Financial instrument

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written legal obligation of a transfer of something of value from one to another, at a future time with certain conditions

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Legal obligation

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Financial instruments are backed by government rules and regulations

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financial instruments will dicatate

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the payments of money from one person/ firm to the other

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Financial assets of householders are

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liabilities of the issuer of securities

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when we aggregate over all balance sheets these claims cancel out leaving

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only real assets as the net wealth of the economy

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Reasons for the existence of financial assets

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because the savings of various economic units during a time differ from their investment in real assets

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Saving-surplus (deficit) economic units

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economic units whose current savings exceed (are lower than) their investment in real assets

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two channels

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financial intermediaries and financial markets

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Financial intermediaries

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institutions that borrow and pool funds from savers and sell them to borrowers

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Financial intermediaries ex

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commercial banks, credit union, finance companies

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Primary markets

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those in which newly issued claims are sold to initial buyers and sellers

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Secondary Markets

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those in which claims that have already been issued are sold by one investor to another

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Capital Markets

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consists of the institutions and procedures that provide for transactions in long term financial instruments

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Money Markets

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consists of the institutions and procedures that provide for transactions in short-term debt insturments

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Risk sharing (diversification)

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savers hold many assets, reducing uncertainty

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Liquidity services

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a measure of how easily an asset can be converted into cash

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information services

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the collection and communication of information or facts about borrowers and expectations about returns on financial assets

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the financial system is essential to assure

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adequate capital formation and economic growth in a modern economy

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investment

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the current commitment of money or any other resource in the expectation of reaping future benefits

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Financial assets provide

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a ready vehicle to transfer consumption through time

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The problem at the heart of financial markets

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asymmetric information and principal-agent problem

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Asymmetric information “information failure”

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when one party to an economic transaction possesses greater material knowledge than the other party (information inequality)

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Principal-agent problem

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the scale of enterprise has grown and owners are no longer managers; now owners (the principal) have to monitor managers (their agents) to ensure that they are not misbehaving

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