CORe Exam Question 51

In finance, beta is a measure of the systematic risk of a security in comparison to the market as a whole. Beta can be found by running a regression analysis of the monthly returns of the security versus the monthly returns of the general market. The regression output table below shows the relationship between Boeing's monthly returns and the monthly returns of the Standard and Poor's 500 (S&P 500) which is a stock market index of 500 large companies.

If beta is the average change in Boeing's monthly returns as the monthly returns of the S&P 500 increase by one, what is Boeing's beta?
  • CORe Exam Question 52

    Which of the following activities will NOT cause net cash provided by investing activities to increase under US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)?
  • CORe Exam Question 53

    After a new report concludes that airplane exhaust has a negative impact on the environment, a government regulation is introduced which reduces the number of flights airlines can make in a day by 10 percent. To comply with this regulation, a certain airline halves the frequency of flights on several of its routes but maintains its original fleet of airplanes. What happens to the costs for the airline?
  • CORe Exam Question 54

    The Beveridge curve displays the relationship between the unemployment rate and the job vacancy rate (the number of unfilled jobs divided by the labor force). A government official wants to forecast the job vacancy rate for next month to see whether jobs posted now are likely to be filled. The official runs a simple regression using monthly U.S. data from 20012013; the results are given below.

    If the unemployment rate next month is expected to be 6.6% and the vacancy rate this month was 2.58%, by how much is the vacancy rate forecasted to change? Note that percentages are given as values between 0 and 1.
  • CORe Exam Question 55

    Below is a partial regression output table showing the relationship between a team's point differential and its winning percentage.(Point differential is defined as the difference between the average number of points a team scores per game and the average number of points per game scored against that team.)

    Assuming a significance level of 0.01, which of the following p-values would indicate a significant relationship between the two variables?