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> Refer to the Mini Case at the end of the chapter involving Jen and Larry’s Frozen Yogurt Company. A. Calculate the dollar amount of NOPAT if Jen and Larry’s venture achieves the forecasted $1.2 million in sales in 2020. What would NOPAT be as a percent o

> Refer to Problem 13 for Voice River, Inc. A. Estimate the WACC if the cost of common equity capital is 20 percent. B. Estimate the WACC if the cost of common equity capital is at the representative target rate of 25 percent for typical ventures in their

> Castillo Products Company, described below, improved its operations from a net loss in 2018 to a net profit in 2019. While the founders, Cindy and Rob Castillo, are happy about these developments, they are concerned about how long the firm took to comple

> Two years of financial statement data for the Munich Export Corporation are shown below. A. Calculate the inventory-to-sale, sale-to-cash, and purchase-to-payment conversion periods for Munich Exports for 2019. B. Calculate the length of Munich Exports&a

> Artero Corporation is a traditional toy products retailer that recently started an Internet-based subsidiary that sells toys online. A markup is added on goods the company purchases from manufacturers for resale. Swen Artero, the company president, is pr

> What is the purpose of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code? What are some of the characteristics of ventures that use instead of private liquidation?

> From the Headlines—Boom Supersonic: Comment on Boom Supersonic’s potential to eventual provide liquidity to its investors through an IPO or a sale. Which one seems more likely to you? Why?

> What is the enterprise (entity) method of valuation, and how does it differ from the other equity methods?

> From the Headlines—Excaliard: What ingredients would you need to conduct a VCSC valuation for Excaliard? Does your calculation suggest that a $15.5 million Series A round is reasonable?

> What rates of return at various horizons have venture capitalists earned, on average, in recent years? How do these returns compare with the average venture capital returns over the past twenty years?

> From the Headlines—PopSockets: Briefly describe the market PopSockets seeks to address and how PopSockets’ initial device addresses that market. Give some examples of how PopSockets can expand its market and tap additional sources of capital.

> Refer to Problems 9 and 10 in the chapter involving the Salza Technology Corporation (see Problem 8 for the firm’s financial statements). A. Calculate Salza’s NOPAT breakeven in terms of NOPAT breakeven revenues for 2019. B. Calculate the NOPAT breakeven

> From the Headlines—Competing to Let the Light Shine: Describe three financial performance measures that d.light could use when comparing itself to other potential competitors.

> From the Headlines—Foursquare: What ingredients would you need to conduct a traditional equity method valuation for Foursquare? If you had the necessary projections, do you think that Foursquare would qualify as a “Unicorn” with a valuation in excess of

> From the Headlines—Automox: Describe how cash budgets and projected financial statements could be used in estimating how far $9 million could take Automox after its Series A round.

> From the Headlines—bext 360: Discuss the variable and fixed costs in a single installation and continuing operation of a “bextmachine.” What are the critical factors in getting to “breakeven?”

> What is Chapter 11 bankruptcy and how is it used by ventures?

> Refer to the Salza Technology Corporation in Problem 1. A. Using average balance sheet account data, calculate the (a) current ratio, (b) quick ratio, (c) total-debt-to-total-assets ratio, and (d) the interest coverage ratio for 2019. B. Repeat the ratio

> Salza Technology Corporation increased its sales from $375,000 in 2018 to $450,000 in 2019 as shown in the firm’s income statements presented below. LeAnn Sands, chief executive officer and founder of the firm, expressed concern that th

> The Castillo Products Company described in Problem 6 had a very difficult operating year in 2018, resulting in a net loss of $65,000 on sales of $900,000. In 2019, sales jumped to $1,500,000, and a net profit after taxes was earned. The firmâ€

> Discuss what you believe would have been the strategic outlook for Spatial (product lines, licensing, competitors, etc.) at the time and what you believe would have been the financial market’s view of a publicly traded Spatial Technology.

> Take a position on whether you would recommend the $5 IPO. Take a position on whether, as an investor, you would have purchased shares in the $5 IPO.

> Prepare an executive summary discussing the events and decisions (technological and financial) leading to its situation, the options it had, and your recommendations for Spatial’s future. Would (could) you have done anything differently?

> Discuss the $5 and $10 IPO prices for Spatial within the context of comparable firms and their multiples.

> Using the provided financial statements as a starting point: 1. Prepare and present a discounted cash flow valuation and pro forma financials with five years of explicit forecasts using license fees and royalties’ growth rates consistent with recent hist

> In mid-2008, Eco-Products’ management sought to quickly (hopefully) raise an additional $2 million in external financing through a single private equity investment. The term sheet prepared by Greenmont Capital is presented in Appendix B. 1. After conside

> Cindy and Robert (Rob) Castillo founded the Castillo Products Company in 2018. The company manufactures components for personal decision assistant products and for other handheld electronic products. Year 2018 proved to be a test of the Castillo Products

> Evaluate the compound return on investments made at startup, Round A, Round B, Round C, and Round D if the acquired shares eventually sell at $10 and $5. Evaluate the compound return on all investments of each existing investor. Analyze the incentives of

> Explain Eco-Products’ supply chain model that existed in early 2008. Describe the strengths and weaknesses of such a model from an operations viewpoint. What are the implications of this supply chain model on Eco-Products’ working capital financing needs

> Describe the IPO market conditions in 1996 and discuss possible reasons why the proposed IPO at a price of about $10 per share planned for October 1996 and involving Dain Bosworth as lead underwriter failed.

> Identify and discuss the factors and developments that led to the previously unexpected revenue growth during the first-half of 2008 by Eco-Products. Is such growth likely to be sustainable in the near future? What possible developments might interrupt o

> Discuss possible reasons why Spatial Technology’s plan for an IPO of common stock at the end of 1992 was withdrawn.

> Eco-Products’ management developed a confidential private placement memorandum (PPM) dated October 16, 2007, in an attempt to raise $3,500,000. Appendix A contains excerpts from the PPM. 1. What is meant by a Regulation D offering? What is an accredited

> Use the cash flow statements for Spatial Technology, Inc., to determine whether the venture has been building or burning cash, as well as possible trends in building or burning cash.

> In mid-2007, Eco-Products’ management prepared a five-year (2007–2011) projection of revenues and expenses (see Table 1). What annual rates of growth were projected for net sales? Make a “back-of-the-envelope” estimate of the amounts of additional assets

> Conduct a ratio analysis of Spatial Technology’s past income statements and balance sheets. Note any performance strengths and weaknesses and discuss any ratio trends.

> Describe the early rounds of financing that occurred from Eco-Products’ inception in 1990 through 2006. Beginning in 2007, the need for external financing began to increase. Describe the sources, amounts, and types of financing obtained during 2007 and t

> Identify some of the types of securities that are exempt from registration with the SEC.

> Refer to Problem 5 in the chapter involving the SubRay Corporation. A. Estimate the NOPAT breakeven amount in terms of revenues necessary for the SubRay Corporation to break even next year. B. Assume that the product selling price is $50 per unit. Calcul

> Exponential Families of Distributions. For each of the following distributions, determine whether it is an exponential family by examining the log-likelihood function. Then identify the sufficient statistics. a. Normal distribution with mean  and varian

> Using the results in Example 13.5, estimate the asymptotic covariance matrix of the method of moments estimators of P and  based on m( and m( . [Note: You will need to use the data in Example C.1 to estimate V.]

> For the normal distribution /. Use this result to analyze the two estimators, Use the delta method to obtain the asymptotic variances and covariance of these two functions, assuming the data are drawn from a normal distribution with mean m and varian

> Compare the fully parametric and semiparametric approaches to estimation of a discrete choice model such as the multinomial logit model discussed in Chapter 17. What are the benefits and costs of the semiparametric approach?

> If the panel has T = 2 periods, the LSDV (within groups) estimator gives the same results as first differences. Prove this claim.

> Prove plim /

> In Section 11.4.5, we found that the group means of the time-varying variables would work as a control function in estimation of the fixed effects model. That is, although regression of y on X is inconsistent for , the Mundlak estimator, regression of y

> Two-way random effects model. We modify the random effects model by the addition of a time-specific disturbance. Thus, where Write out the full disturbance covariance matrix for a data set with n = 2 and T = 2.

> A two-way fixed effects model. Suppose that the fixed effects model is modified to include a time-specific dummy variable as well as an individual-specific variable. Then / . At every observation, the individual- and time- specific dummy variables sum to

> What are the probability limits of (1/n) LM, where LM is defined in (11-42) under the null hypothesis that 2u = 0 and under the alternative that 2u ≠ 0?

> Unbalanced design for random effects. Suppose that the random effects model of Section 11.5 is to be estimated with a panel in which the groups have different numbers of observations. Let Ti be the number of observations in group i. a. Show that the pool

> Suppose that the fixed effects model is formulated with an overall constant term and n - 1 dummy variables (dropping, say, the last one). Investigate the effect that this supposition has on the set of dummy variable coefficients and on the least squares

> The following is a panel of data on investment (y) and profit (x) for n = 3 firms over T = 10 periods. a. Pool the data and compute the least squares regression coefficients of the model b. Estimate the fixed effects model of (11-11), and then test the

> Obtain the reduced form for the model in Exercise 8 under each of the assumptions made in parts a and in parts b(1) and b(9).

> Consider the following two-equation model: a. Verify that, as stated, neither equation is identified. b. Establish whether or not the following restrictions are sufficient to identify (or partially identify) the model:

> For the model Assume that yi2 + yi3 = 1 at every observation. Prove that the sample covariance matrix of the least squares residuals from the three equations will be singular, thereby precluding computation of the FGLS estimator. How could you proceed i

> Consider the system The disturbances are freely correlated. Prove that GLS applied to the system leads to the OLS estimates of 1 and 2 but to a mixture of the least squares slopes in the regressions of y1 and y2 on x

> Consider the two-equation system Assume that the disturbance variances and covariance are known. Now suppose that the analyst of this model applies GLS but erroneously omits x3 from the second equation. What effect does this specification error have on t

> Prove that in the model generalized least squares is equivalent to equation-by-equation ordinary least squares if X1 = X2. The general case is considered in Exercise 14.

> The model satisfies all the assumptions of the seemingly unrelated regressions model. All variables have zero means. The following sample second-moment matrix is obtained from a sample of 20 observations: a. Compute the fGLS estimates of ï&c

> For the model in Application 1, test the hypothesis that = 0 using a Wald test and a Lagrange multiplier test. Note that the restricted model is the cobb–Douglas log linear model. The LM test statistic is shown in (7-22). To carry out the test, you wil

> Consider estimation of the following two-equation model: A sample of 50 observations produces the following moment matrix: a. Write the explicit formula for the GLS estimator of [1, 2]. What is the asymptotic covaria

> Prove the general result in point 2 in Section 10.2.2, if the X matrices in (10-1) are identical, then full GLS is equation-by-equation OLS. Hints: If all the Xm matrices are identical, then the inverse matrix in (10-10) is /. Also, Use these results

> Prove that an under identified equation cannot be estimated by 2SLS.

> Prove that

> For the model show that there are two restrictions on the reduced form coefficients. Describe a procedure for estimating the model while incorporating the restrictions.

> The following model is specified: All variables are measured as deviations from their means. The sample of 25 observations produces the following matrix of sums of squares and cross products: a. Estimate the two equations by OLS. b. Estimate the parame

> A sample of 100 observations produces the following sample data: The underlying seemingly unrelated regressions model is a. Compute the OLS estimate of , and estimate the sampling variance of this estimator. b. Compute the FGLS estimate

> Suppose that the regression model is yi =  + i, where a. Given a sample of observations on yi and xi, what is the most efficient estimator of m? What is its variance? b. What is the OLS estimator of , an

> Suppose that the regression model is y =  + , where has a zero mean, constant variance, and equal correlation, , across observations. Then if i ≠ j. Prove that the least squares estim

> Suppose that y has the pdf And For this model, prove that GLS and MLE are the same, even though this distribution involves the same parameters in the conditional mean function and the disturbance variance.

> Using the Box–cox transformation, we may specify an alternative to the cobb– Douglas model as Using Zellner and Revankar’s data in Appendix Table F7.2, estimate a, k, ï&

> In the generalized regression model, suppose that / is known. a. What is the covariance matrix of the OLS and GLS estimators of ? b. What is the covariance matrix of the OLS residual vector e = y - Xb? c. What is the covariance matrix

> In the generalized regression model, if the K columns of X are characteristic vectors of
, then ordinary least squares and generalized least squares are identical. (The result is actually a bit broader; X may be any linear combination of exactly K char

> Finally, suppose that / must be estimated, but that assumptions (9-22) and (9-23) are met by the estimator. What changes are required in the development of the previous problem?

> Now suppose that the disturbances are not normally distributed, although / is still known. Show that the limiting distribution of the previous statistic is (1/J) times a chi-squared variable with J degrees of freedom. (Hint: The denominator converges t

> This and the next two exercises are based on the test statistic usually used to test a set of J linear restrictions in the generalized regression model, where  is the GLS estimator. Show that if / is known, if the disturbances are nor

> The following table presents a hypothetical panel of data: a. Estimate the group wise heteroscedastic model of section 9.7.2. Include an estimate of the asymptotic variance of the slope estimator. Use a two-step procedure, basing the FGLS estimator at

> The model satisfies the group wise heteroscedastic regression model of section 9.7.2 All variables have zero means. The following sample second-moment matrix is obtained from a sample of 20 observations: a. compute the two separate OLS estimates of &

> Suppose that in the group wise heteroscedasticity model of section 9.7.2, Xi is the same for all i. What is the generalized least squares estimator of ? How would you compute the estimator if it were necessary to estimate 2i?

> Two samples of 50 observations each produce the following moment matrices. (In each case, X is a constant and one variable.) a. compute the least squares regression coefficients and the residual variances s2 for each data set. compute the R2 s for each

> For the model in Exercise 9, suppose that is normally distributed, with mean zero and variance 2[1 + (x)2]. Show that 2 and 2 can be consistently estimated by a regression of the least squares residuals on a constant and x2. Is this estimator efficie

> To continue the analysis in Application 5, consider a nonparametric regression of G/Pop on the price. Using the nonparametric estimation method in Section 7.5, fit the nonparametric estimator using a range of bandwidth values to explore the effect of ban

> For the model in Exercise 9, what is the probability limit of Note that s2 is the least squares estimator of the residual variance. It is also n times the conventional estimator of the variance of the OLS estimator, How does this equation compare with

> What is the covariance matrix, of the GLS estimator and the difference between it and the OLs estimator, The result plays a pivotal role in the development of specification tests in Hausman (1978).

> Prove that in the control function estimator in (8-16), you can use the predictions, z'p, instead of the residuals to obtain the same results apart from the sign on the control function itself, which will be reversed.

> Prove that the control function approach in (8-16) produces the same estimates as 2SLS.

> This is easy to show. In the expression for , if the kth Colum n in X is one of the columns in Z, say the lth, then the kth column in (Z'Z)-1Z'X will be the lth column of an L * L identity matrix. This result means that the kth column in = Z (Z'Z)-1Z

> Consider the linear model, Let z be an exogenous, relevant instrumental variable for this model. Assume, as well, that z is binary—it takes only values 1 and 0. Show the algebraic forms of the LS estimator and the IV estimator for both

> At the end of section 8.7, it is suggested that the OLs estimator could have a smaller mean squared error than the 2sLs estimator. Using (8-4), the results of Exercise 1, and Theorem 8.1, show that the result will be true if How can you verify that thi

> Derive the results in (8-32a) and (8-32b) for the measurement error model. Note the hint in Footnote 4 in section 8.5.1 that suggests you use result (A-66) when you need to invert

> For the measurement error model in (8-26) and (8-27), prove that when only x is measured with error, the squared correlation between y and x is less than that between y* and x*. (Note the assumption that y* = y.) Does the same hold true if y* is also mea

> In the discussion of the instrumental variable estimator, we showed that the least squares estimator, bLs, is biased and inconsistent. Nonetheless, bLs does estimate something—plim Derive the asymptotic covariance matrix of bLs and sh

> In Application 1 in chapter 3 and Application 1 in chapter 5, we examined Koop and Tobias’s data on wages, education, ability, and so on. We continue the analysis here. (The source, location and configuration of the data are given in th

> Verify the following differential equation, which applies to the Box–cox transformation: Show that the limiting sequence for  = 0 is These results can be used to great advantage in deriving the actual second derivatives

> Describe how to obtain nonlinear least squares estimates of the parameters of the model y = ax+ .

> Dummy variable for one observation. Suppose the data set consists of n observations, (yn, Xn) and an additional observation, The full data set contains a dummy variable, d, that equals zero save for one (the last) observation. Then, the full data set is

> Reverse regression continued. suppose that the model in Exercise 3 is extended to y = x* + d + , x = x* + u. For convenience, we drop the constant term. Assume that x*, e, and u are independent normall

> Estimate the parameters of the model in Example 10.4 using two-stage least squares. Obtain the residuals from the two equations. Do these residuals appear to be white noise series? Based on your findings, what do you conclude about the specification of t

> Carry out an ADF test for a unit root in the rate of inflation using the subset of the data in Appendix Table F5.2 since 1974.1. (This is the first quarter after the oil shock of 1973.)

> Using the macroeconomic data in Appendix Table F5.2, estimate by least squares the parameters of the model where ct is the log of real consumption and yt is the log of real disposable income. a. Use the Breusch and Pagan LM test to examine the residuals