1) Off-balance sheet business of banks has expanded considerably and, in notional dollar terms, now represents over four times value of balance-sheet assets.
a) What do you mean by off-balance-sheet assets?
b) Recognize the 4 major categories of off-balance-sheet business and use the suitable example to describe each category.
2) Why might establish and monitoring compliance with minimum quality standards are preferable in some cases to revelation of more information as the method of addressing problem of costly and imperfect information?
3) Gail Dribble is analyzing shares of Petscan Radiology. Petscan’s stock pays dividend once each year, and it just distributed this year’s $0.85 dividend. Market price of stock is $12.14. Gail evaluates that Petscan will rise its dividends by 7% per year forever. After contemplating risk of Petscan stock, Gail is willing to hold the stock only if it gives the annual expected return of at least 13%. Must she buy Petscan shares or not?