Early cities required three basic conditions identified by sociologist Gideon Sjoberg:

A country implements a “two-child policy” with financial penalties for larger families. Twenty years later, it faces an aging population and labor shortages. This illustrates:

When a police officer issues a traffic ticket, most drivers comply because they recognize the officer’s legal right to enforce traffic laws. This compliance is based on:

A manager can approve vacation requests and assign work tasks, but employees ignore her suggestions about their personal financial investments. This scenario illustrates that:

Approximately 50% of Native Americans live in communities with uncontrolled hazardous waste sites. This statistic reflects:

The PEG ratio is an improvement over the P/E ratio in that it allows for:

Which of the following ratios is most likely to be of primary interest to an individual investor who is considering whether or not to purchase bonds from a given company?

Ed decides to invest a portion of his ill-gotten millions into some Apple stock. However, to make it more exciting, he has decided to purchase the stock on margin (whoo!). Assume Ed purchases 1,000 shares of Apple at $460/share. The Margin Requirement on the account is 60%, and there is a 9% annual interest rate associated with borrowed funds. Commissions on all transactions in the account are equal to 1% Over the course of the year, Apple provides dividends equal to $10/share. What is the amount of cash (round to nearest whole dollar) invested by Ed in this transaction?

Based on research by Kahneman and Tversky, the disposition effect suggests that:

Please interpret the following ratio: If a company has a profitability ratio (for example, Net Profit Margin) of 12.5, this suggests that: