SAPM Assignment : MCom : Mar,2015

Name	Q. No.	Assignments Questions….. (Answer in about 600 words for each of the two questions).
Tariq Jamaal	1	Assuming a stock price and volume chart that also contains a 50-day and a 200-day MA line, describe a bearish pattern with the two MA lines and discuss why it is bearish.
	2	What is the benefit of analyzing the market and alternative industries before individual securities?
NehaBaveja	1	What is the purpose of computing a moving-average line for a stock? Describe a bullish pattern using a 50-day moving-average line and the stock volume of trading. Discuss why this pattern is considered bullish.
	2	Discuss why estimating the value for a bond is easier than estimating the value for common stock.
SaurabhKumar	1	What is meant by an indexing portfolio strategy and what is the justification for this strategy? How might it differ from another passive portfolio?
	2	Would you expect the risk premium for an investment in a stock from India to be the same as that for a stock from the United States? Discuss your reasoning.
RajkumarAkela	1	Briefly discuss the problems related to fundamental analysis that are considered advantages for technical analysis.
	2	Why would you expect a relationship between economic activity and stock price movements?
SourabhSharma	1	Some observers contend that it is harder to estimate the effect of a change in interest rates on common stocks than on bonds. Discuss this contention.
	2	Describe the Dow Theory and its three components. Which component is most important? What is the reason for an intermediate reversal?
SuhaniKhurana	1	Assume you are a fundamental research analyst following the automobile industry for a large brokerage firm. Identify and briefly explain the relevance of three major economic time series, economic indicators, or economic data items that would be significant to automotive industry and company research.
	2	Explain advantages and disadvantages of any two Equity Valuation Models.
VishestaSharma	1	Give an example of a growth company and discuss why you identify it as such. Based on its P/E, do you think it is a growth stock? Explain.
	2	Technicians contend that stock prices move in trends that persist for long periods of time. What do technicians believe happens in the real world to cause these trends?
ShikhaSingh	1	Describe a bearish price and volume pattern, and discuss why it is considered bearish.
	2	Identify the three most important determinants of the price of a bond. Describe the effect of each.
Haider	1	Explain the reasoning behind a support level and a resistance level.
	2	Because of inflationary expectations, you expect natural resource stocks, such as mining companies and oil firms, to perform well over the next three to six months. As an active portfolio manager, describe the various methods available to take advantage of this forecast.
SurbhiJain	1	Technical analysts believe that investors can use past price changes to predict future price changes. How do they justify this belief?
	2	It has been contended that a zero coupon bond is the ideal financial instrument to use for immunizing a portfolio. Discuss the reasoning for this statement.

Principles of Economics Assignments: April, 2014

ROLL NO.	Q. No.	Assignments Questions….. 10 Marks each. (Answer in about 600 words for each of the two questions). Submit by 15 April, 2014 (Tuesday).
11003	1	Write short notes on the following : (a) Consumer’s and producer’s surplus (b) Price elasticity of Supply
	2	What are the various determinants of demand of a product?
11004	1	Write short notes on the following : (a) Injections and leakages in an open economy with government. (b) Savings Function
	2	Write a note on Circular Flow of Income.
11011	1	Explain the process of credit creation in the commercial banking system.
	2	Explain the differences between GDP, GNI and GNP.
11014	1	Write short notes on the following : (a) Giffen good and the law of demand. (b) Income elasticity of demand
	2	How does the AR and MR curve differ with respect to perfect competition form that of a monopoly.
11016	1	Write a short note on supply curve of a firm under perfect competition? How is the supply curve in the industry generated under perfect competition? (Explain with diagrams)
	2	Write short notes on the following : (a) Multiplier Effect. (b) Nature of Money
11017	1	How do you derive the demand curve from the price consumption curve? Explain with the help of a diagram.
	2	What are the gains of international trade?
11020	1	What are the different components of national income? Write brief notes on the same.
	2	Explain why monopoly is allocatively inefficient.
11021	1	Write a short note on supply curve of a firm under perfect competition. How is the supply curve in the industry generated? (Explain with diagrams.)
	2	Explain the differences between economies of scale, constant returns to scale and diminishing returns to scale.
11022	1	Write short notes on the following : (a) Cross-price elasticity of demand;; (b) Law of diminishing marginal utility
	2	Write a note on Monetary Forces and Aggregate Demand.
11029	1	Explain the determination of equilibrium income through the saving-investment approach.
	2	Explain short-run equilibrium under perfect competition.
11030	1	Write short notes on the following : (a) Causes of Inflation; (b) Role of fiscal policy
	2	Write a note on credit creation.
11031	1	Write short notes on the following : (a) Multiplier; (b) Law of absolute advantage;
	2	Write a note on monetary policy.
11032	1	Explain short-run equilibrium of monopoly with the help of a diagram.
	2	Write short notes on the following : (a) Price consumption curve (b) Income consumption curve
11049	1	Write short notes on the following : (a) Motives for holding money; (b) Balance of payments,
	2	What do you understand by income and substitution effects? Explain with the help of diagrams.
11051	1	Explain the properties of an indifference curve. Show the consumer's equilibrium with the help of indifference curves.
	2	Write a note on Fiscal Policy.
11060	1	How does scarcity give rise to the central problems in an economy? How are these problems solved in a free market economy?
	2	Write a note on nominal and real GDP.
11061	1	Write short notes on the following : (a) Mid-point method of measuring elasticity of demand (b) Production Possibility Curve ;
	2	Explain Average Variable Cost (AVC), Average Total Cost (ATC) and Average Fixed Cost (AFC).
11063	1	What do you understand by exchange rates? How are these determined?
	2	Outline the main determinants of demand and supply elasticity.
11066	1	Enumerate the determinants of' growth. 'What are the limits to growth?
	2	Explain aggregate expenditure and equilibrium output.
11071	1	How is national income determined in an economy?
	2	What do you understand by terms of international trade?