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THE EFFECT OF EARLY CAREER MOBILITY on FINANCING YOUR RETIREMENT WITH DEFINED BENEFIT VS. DEFINED CONTRIBUTION PROGRAMS.

RETIREMENT ASSIGNMENT II Spring, 2015
THE EFFECT OF EARLY CAREER MOBILITY on FINANCING YOUR RETIREMENT WITH DEFINED BENEFIT VS. DEFINED CONTRIBUTION PROGRAMS

NOTE: If you plan not to live and work in the US, you may either:
a) Do this assignment as if you were going to work and live in the US, or
b) Write an equivalent paper describing the various retirement plans (sponsored by both the Government of your country, and/or private employers), and how you plan to care for your retirement.

Assuming that by “things are in the saddle, and ride mankind.” Emerson meant what we would call science and technology, how useful is his statement in understanding American history since 1932?

More than 150 years ago, the American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote that “things are in the saddle, and ride mankind.” Assuming that by “things” Emerson meant what we would call science and technology, how useful is his statement in understanding American history since 1932? Are modern Americans controlled by our technologies, in either direct or indirect ways? Or are we still in control of them? How is this control – of technology by humans, or of humans by technology – manifested? Does the form of control depend on particular circumstances – the time, the technology, the human beings? IMPORTANT: Use concrete historical examples to substantiate your argument. ****Please use if you can “Inventing America A History of the United States” book along with the other sources.

Explain and discuss the concept of leverage and how it applies to credit default swaps.

Part 1. Using the draw tools in Word, show what happened to the demand for housing by drawing the demand for housing in 2005, 2006, and 2009. Explain what caused demand to change over this period.

Part 2. If one wanted to speculate in the sub-prime mortgage bond market, explain the difference between buying a sub-prime mortgage, buying a sub-prime mortgage bond, and buying a sub-prime credit default swap (CDS) and how these financial instruments can be used to bet for profit.

Part 3. Explain the concept of leverage and how it applies to credit default swaps.

Part 4. Consider the players described in The Big Short. These include the large Wall Street firms and insurance companies AIG, Deustche Bank, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearns, Citibank, and Charlie Ledley of Cornwall Capital, Steve Eismann of FrontPoint Partners, Michael Burry, Greg Lippman, etc. Describe the nature of speculation in the sub-prime mortgage market and identify who was betting on what.

Compare and contrast environmental standards, corrective taxes and tradeable permits. Discuss the pros and cons of each type of public policy instrument.

1. Compare and contrast environmental standards, corrective taxes and tradeable permits. Discuss the pros and cons of each type of public policy instrument. When should a quantity regulation be placed as opposed to a price regulation?
Finally, comment on your take on President Obama’soverall efforts (Links to an external site.) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Use appropriate data and references.

2. Suppose that the demand for a chemical is given by Q = 80 – 4P, where quantity is measured in pounds. The market supply is given byMC = 10. Assume that the marginal external damage of this product is $5 per unit.

a. What is the equilibrium price and quantity of this good in a private market without government intervention? What is the socially desired equilibrium price and quantity?

b. What level of taxation would generate the socially efficient level of the good from part (a)?