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Finance describes the management, creation and study of money, banking, credit, investments, assets and liabilities that make up financial systems, as well as the study of those financial instruments.

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Is this formula for net present value correct?

Q2 : Indeed the correct formulation is for initial investment to appear with a minus sign, since it is an outflow. This reflects the position of somebody who contemplates making the investment. Note a …
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Why does loan waiving lead to a decrease of Non performing assets?

"Loan waiving" means "loan write-off": the debt is eliminated. Therefore it is subtracted from the assets of the lender, and if it was already a non-performing loan (asset for the lender), the total o …
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Interest Rate vs. Borrowing Rate - Difference

The Interest Rate is a more general term, and can cover all shorts of financial transactions where one expects by a contractual clause to get their money back plus "a little something" (I am not refer …
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What is the equation $\mathbb{E}[mR]=1$?

$Ε(mR) =1$ is a particular version of the general intertemporal long-run equilibrium/steady-state condition/relation $$\text{One-period discount factor}\times \text{Gross Interest rate factor} = 1$$ …
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Deriving and using the pricing equation

As regards the first question, the "$p_t=...$" expression is conceptually and qualitatively useful because, at the optimum, it relates price with consumption and expectations. Mathematically it is an …
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Where are bank loans in balance sheet?

In the link one can very clearly see that the company has no contractually short term debt, and in the short-term (i.e. in the next 12 months) has to pay part of its long term debt. Also, that the deb …
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Deriving and explaining the weighted cost of capital

, there is no "legally committed" interest rate here, nor "obligatory" rate of return (funds that appear as equity but are characterized by such clauses are not considered equity but debt, under both Finance
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What are alternative measures of risk?

For an alternative approach: Assume we have wealth $W_0$ which is certain. Assume away inflation and things to that effect. If we invest an amount $A$ somewhere (security or whatever), whose future …
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Can absence of inflation be accounted for by a reconfigured class structure?

Assume a money demand function of the form $$M^d_t = P_tY_te^{-\theta i_t}$$ where $P_t$ is the price level, $Y_t$ is output, $i_t$ is the nominal interest rate. Equilibirum in the money market imp …
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Why would minimum rent under franchise arrangements for McDonald's decrease year by year?

The specific table appears to be part of the obligatory disclosures under applicable Accounting Standards, so that users of the company's financial statement have information of future obligations/cla …
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What assurances are there that the Federal Reserve does not give money to banks?

According to this official link Does the Federal Reserve ever get audited? Yes, the Board of Governors, the 12 Federal Reserve Banks, and the Federal Reserve System as a whole are all subject t …
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Testing if one regressor is a proxy for another

For the benefit of readers I note that, as the authors write at the bottom of p.2557 "We define trust as the subjective probability individuals attribute to the possibility of being cheated." So …
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