Category: Economics

Please write three, separate, 400 word essays that address the following concepts. Be sure to discuss the concepts themselves as well as the relationship between the concepts. You will want to include graphs, diagrams and figures to help illustrate key concepts.

Please be sure to use other sources of information as needed. It is very important that you properly reference your sources of information. “Cite your sources” cannot be overemphasized. Always give credit where credit is due!

a) Economic Efficiency and Markets
b) Externalities and Environmental Problems
c) Social Costs and Private Costs

Writing about One Belt, One road (OBOR) and choose a country to see how does OBOR policy affect that countries? Must provide hypotheseis, support details, data to support your thesis, theory or paper. Is OBOR really an economic lever or just a Chinese move to extend its power of arms around the world? and replace the US to become the world’s No. 1 power? Must to use theory in this paper such as hegemonic stability theory, Hechscher-ohlin theory or any theory you need to use to write this paper. Case study method

The Abstract is a brief summary of your paper, which allows your reader to understand the main points and purpose of the paper. Usually around 150-250 words.

1. Introduction

• Identify the research problem or research topic; state it briefly in one or two sentences.

Expand the problem explaining:

–Introduction of the problem

–Historical data, current issues, and increases in demand

–The need for research on the problem

–Your theory to solve the problem (briefly)

–Your hypotheses based on your theory (briefly)

–The implications of the solved problem (briefly, or discuss it in the conclusion)

Research objectives

–What is this research to accomplish?

–Your contribution

2. Literature Review

Review other research of the same/similar topic

• Are there similar studies of the problem?
• How does the literature define the problem or hypotheses and its variables?

What are the findings of similar studies?

Connect your research problem (topic) with existing literature

• Discuss the problem of your research in detail in line with literature review.
• How does the problem differ from other research or studies?

How do other theories connect to your research topic?

State hypotheses

• Identify your research hypotheses.
• Explain how the hypotheses relate to the research question.

What is your expectation for the results?

3. Methodology

Research design

• Which research design are you using?
• Which type of quantitative or qualitative design?

Do you use case study or case comparison? Why? How to select cases?

Conceptualize and operationalize your research variables

• Define and clarify every variable/term in the question.
• How do you conceptualize the research variables/terms?
• Operationalize every variable/term with specific working operational definitions.

Clarify how the working definitions relate to or differ from other studies and existing theories.

Sampling (If you use primary data)

• Specify population, sampling frame, sample size, and unit of analysis
• Which sampling method do you use?
• Why did you select that particular design?

What are the possible biases and errors in the sampling design?

Data instrument

• What type data your will use? Why?
• If you will use primary data, how do you collect the data?
• If you use survey to collect data, explain it in detail (e.g. how are the questions selected or developed? What method will you use to delivery the survey?)
• If you use survey, please attach your survey questions as an appendix (see VII Appendix)
• If the data are from other existing survey, identify source. Explain how you will use the data.

If you will use secondary data, identify source. Explain how you will use the data.

Collection of the data and descriptive analysis (If you use primary data)

• Specify the data gathering method
• What type of measurement will you use?
• How is the data coded?
• Describe the preliminary findings through descriptive analysis
  using appropriate diagrams, charts, graphs, tables, descriptions, historical
  narratives, etc.

4. Discussion/Findings

• Use all the methods (case study, comparison, reasoning, data, etc.) to analyze the research question and prove/disprove the hypothesis.

Present the findings clearly

5.Conclusions and Recommendation

Describe the preliminary findings through descriptive analysis using appropriate diagrams, charts, graphs, tables, descriptions, historical narratives, etc.

• Use all the methods (case study, comparison, reasoning, data, etc.) to analyze the research question and prove/disprove the hypothesis.

Present the findings clearly

• Briefly summarize the entire study including problem, methodology, findings, interpretation of findings, and conclusion
• What are the significant implication and contribution?
• Do you have any recommendations for future studies?
• What are the limitations of your study?
• Briefly discuss related areas for further research.

6. References

• Include all references cited in the study
• Use APSA style (https://connect.apsanet.org/stylemanual/)

At least 10 references

Appendix

Include survey questionnaires, lists, interviews, letters, important documents or data that are not included in the text, etc.

In your Reading you reviewed the Capability Maturing Model (CMM) and in the Learning Activity you briefly practiced with the Kotter 8-Step Model. Now you will apply one of these models to address a business process change needed at the organization of your choice. You will also apply Porter’s 3-phase process from the learning activity to suggest a strategy and steps to be taken in each phase.

Prepare your original Business Process Change in a Word document using APA format. Review APA formatting and style resources found in the Writing Center accessed through the Academic Success Center within the Academic Tools area. You can also consult APA Central located in the Academic Tools area as well.

Do some research to obtain your selected specific industry and/or organization resources. If confidentiality is a concern regarding the organization you selected, choose a publicly traded company instead. Ultimately it is your responsibility to ensure you do not share any of an organization’s proprietary information.

See attached assignment

Your research paper topic, a 100-word research paper abstract, and list of scholarly references is due in week 5. A late submission penalty of 5 percentage points per day or portion of a day will be assessed against your final research paper grade.

It is your responsibility to ensure that your research topic meets the criteria for analysis of international trade and finance. I do not approve or disapprove a topic; I merely obtain a topic from you and then check your submitted research paper against your submitted topic.

Selection of a research topic is up to you. Review various international economic theory/issues in the textbook and supplemental material, identify real life situations that have occurred or are occurring that parallel or mimic international economic theory/issues from the textbook, select one of these real life scenarios that is of interest to you, and submit this topic.

As a reminder, research paper must analyze current international trade and finance activity; background information should be minimal; definitions are not to be included. Paper should explain, in dollars or a country’s currency, changes to GDP, employment, what profits/losses occurred related to your topic, what happened economically because of your topic, what your topic contributed to or detracted from the U.S. and/or other affected countries’ economies, etc. Focus is on economics, not socio-economic factors or a political/social problem.

Research paper topic, 100-word research paper abstract, and list of scholarly references to be emailed to instructor by 11:59 p.m. Central, Sunday of week 5.

What topic should you choose?

I require you to describe and evaluate the progress or failure to develop economicallyof a country or region over a period of time. The country or region may be any one in Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. (You may not choose Britain, Ireland, or a country in continental Europe, or the U.S. or Canada, or Australia or New Zealand, but you may write about Russia or Japan.) Your writing should focuson how and why economic development proceeded—rapidly, slowly, or not at all, as the case may be. You should select a period of time, shorter or longer as you see fit. (A paper on the economic development of a colony before it became a sovereign nation is an appropriate topic, e.g., the Gold Coast under British rule before independence as Ghana in 1957.) If you are in any doubt about what would make a suitable country and/or time period for your term paper, contact me.

How to research the topic

To get you started, look through the case studies in our textbook, Todaro & Smith 2015, and then consult the following resource: The New Palgrave Dictionary of EconomicsLiving Edition (2019- ) online at https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1057%2F978-1-349-95121-5

(Your library registration gives you access to this and other online materials.)

Visit the sixth floor of the King library, especially in the HC class, where you will find many books on this and related topics.

If the university library doesn’t have a particular book, you may find that either another CSU library (CSU+) or your local public library has a copy of the book. And if none of those do, you can order the book through Interlibrary Loan or Link+. http://library.sjsu.edu/services/csu-interlibrary-loan-and-other-resources

And bear in mind that it’s okay to use discriminating and thoughtful use of websites containing worthwhile material (but be sure to cite correctly what you find—full URL and date visited).

Instructions for writing the paper

The paper should be typed in Times New Roman 12-point font (and use italic,boldor underlinesparingly), double-spaced (like this sentence), and with one-inch margins, top and bottom, left and right.

The paper (not including the cover sheet and the bibliography and/or references) should be 1500-2500 words in length. You should deliver a hard copyto my office (DMH 144—I’ll check the envelope attached to my office door several times a day). Papers that are too short lose points. And papers that exceed 2500 words had better be worth reading!

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Instructions for writing the paper (cont’d)

You should write your full name, “Econ 112,” “Spring 2020,” and the word count (not including the bibliography and/or references) on the cover sheet. Large, clearly labeled diagrams may be used where appropriate (but don’t include them in the word count). A bibliography and/or references typed in a consistent format should be included at the end of the paper. A 1500-word paper withouta cover sheet, diagrams, and bibliography would fill 5-6 pages depending on the spacing between paragraphs.

A hard copy of the paper itself is due by 10 PM on Monday, April 20(when DMH closes that evening). You will lose points if you are late in submitting your paper. The paper itself counts for up to twenty points toward your final grade for the course. (And the proposal counts for up to five points.)

PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOU HAVE FOLLOWED THE INSTRUCTIONS.

Deadlines

You are welcome to discuss your proposal with me, and run a draft proposal by me at jmarkbrady@gmail.com.

You are also welcome to run a draft of your paper by me. Any draft that you wish to submit for my comments is due by 11:59 PM on Sunday, April 5, (that’s three weeks’ time) to be returned by Friday, April 10.

This semester I will accept a draft that is an MS Word document (but not a pdf) and emailed(with your name and Econ 112 and “Draft Term Paper” as the name of the file) to bradytermpapers@gmail.com. (Any other inquiries should be sent to jmarkbrady@gmail.com.) And be advised that I won’t accept drafts that are faxed.

Help is available!

If you experience any difficulty in completing this assignment, please do not hesitate to ask me for help. I am available most every day Monday through Friday 9 AM – 5 PM (and sometimes after 5 PM) by appointment (please suggest a couple of times). But I advise against dropping by without an appointment. I much prefer meeting in person to email correspondence unless you just want a simple question answered.

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Honor code

The university regards cheating and plagiarizing as serious offenses against the honor code and I shall not hesitate to enforce the rules. Students are recommended to consult the appropriate section of the honor code.

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Bibliography

Here are some books to extend your understanding of economic development and perhaps help you write a better term paper.

P. T. Bauer (1915-2002) is noted for his opposition to the widely held notion that the most effective manner to help developing countries advance is through state-controlled foreign aid. Go here for a list of his most important works: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thomas_Bauer#Major_works

William Easterly has written three books and many articles on economic development. Go here for a complete list: http://www.williameasterly.org/publications/

Jeffrey G. Williamson, Globalization and the poor periphery before 1950(Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2006). The Ohlin Lectures: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/series/ohlin-lectures

Robert C. Allen, Global economic history: a very short introduction(Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011). https://global.oup.com/academic/product/global-economic-history-a-very-short-introduction-9780199596652?cc=us&lang=en& Robert Allen has also written The Industrial Revolution: A Very Short Introduction(Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2017). https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-industrial-revolution-a-very-short-introduction-9780198706786?cc=us&lang=en&

The series Very Short Introductionsalso includes John Krebs, Food: A very short introduction(2013), which includes a brief history of human food and examines the four great transitions of food development, and Andrew F. Cooper, BRICS: a very short introduction(2016). (The BRICS are the four countries of Brazil, Russia, India and China.) https://www.veryshortintroductions.com/browse

John A. James & Mark Thomas, ed., Capitalism in context: essays on economic development and cultural change in honor of R. M. Hartwell(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994).

H. W. Arndt, Economic development: the history of an idea(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987). H. W. Arndt, The rise and fall of economic growth: a study in contemporary thought(1978; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978).

W. A. Eltis, The classical theory of economic growth(London: Macmillan, 1984; second edition, with a new introduction, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, and New York: Palgrave 2000).

Lionel C. Robbins, The Theory of Economic Development in the History of Economic Thought: Being the Chichele Lectures for 1966, revised and extended (London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin’s, 1968; reprinted, 1970). Available as a free pdf here: https://cdn.mises.org/The%20Theory%20of%20Economic%20Development_2.pdf

A problem set with 3 Questions about intermediate quantitative economics

the questions are also in the attached file

please take pictures of the writing on A4 papers or upload as a pdf

here are the questions

1. Classical small open economy model: Suppose for the sake of this problem that the U.S. can be modeled as a small open economy. (This is not exactly true, but for many questions it may still give us good insights.) Remember that the U.S. is a country that typically runs a large current account deficit and a large capital account surplus.

1. a) Draw a loanable fund market diagram that roughly corresponds to the U.S. economy. Be sure to locate the world real interest rate r* so that your diagram shows a capital account surplus (I > S).
2. b) Draw a net exports diagram that roughly corresponds to the U.S. economy. Be sure that your diagram shows a current account deficit.
3. c) In the early 2000s, then-Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke said that there was a “global savings glut”—an exogenous increase in the supply of world savings. What is the effect of a global savings glut on the world real interest rate? (Remember that the world is a closed economy.) Use a loanable funds diagram to help illustrate your answer.
4. d) In response to the global savings glut, what happens to U.S. national savings, investment, and the capital account balance? (Assume that there is no increase in the U.S. savings rate, which was the case at the time, but remember that there is an effect on the world real interest rate, from part c.) Use a loanable funds diagram (for the U.S.) to help illustrate your answer.
5. e) Continuing part d), what happens to the U.S. trade balance and real exchange rate? Use a net exports diagram to help illustrate your answer.

2. Classical small open economy model: According to the Classical small open economy model, what happens to domestic national saving, investment, the trade balance, and the real exchange rate in response to each of the following events? Draw a loanable funds market diagram and a net exports diagram to illustrate your answer in each case. (For these diagrams, let’s assume that the country starts out running a current account surplus and capital account deficit, as in the examples in class.)

1. a) A fall in consumer confidence about the future induces domestic consumers to spend less and save more.
2. b) A tax reform increases the incentive of businesses to build new factories.
3. c) The introduction of a stylish new domestically-produced electric car makes someconsumers switch from buying a foreign-produced car to buying a domestic one.
4. d) The country imposes a tariff on foreign-produced goods. (For simplicity, suppose that theeffect of the tariff is the following: at every value of the real exchange rate, the demand for domestic goods is higher and the demand for foreign goods is lower.) You might find it surprising that the equilibrium trade balance doesn’t change in this example; briefly give some intuition for why the Classical Small Open Economy Model implies this result.

3. Money multiplier and the quantity of money: Suppose that the introduction and convenience of internet banking services reduces the public’s demand for currency relative to deposits.

1. a) What happens to the money multiplier?
2. b) What would happen to the amount of money M and deposits D in the economy?
3. c) Suppose that banks’ desired level of reserves relative to deposits remains unchanged.What happens to banks’ demand for reserves R?
4. d) If the central bank wanted to keep the total quantity of money M from changing, what aretwo things that it could do?

Hi dear writer, please ANSWER these TWO questions like Question and Answer this is a weekly discussion, and GRAPH an Economic Supply and Demand Curve.

The discussion should be minimum 250 words and a small graph in the same page.

Use ONE Source: Chapter 4 and 5 of “Microeconomics, 11th edition, by David C. Colander, McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.” Textbook Which is for ECON 101

1-What would be the effect of a 75 percent tax on lawsuit punitive awards that was proposed by then California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2004 on:

a-The number of punitive awards. Demonstrate your answer using supply and demand curves. ( You will post your graph as jpg. In your discussion post).

b-The number of pretrial settlements.

2- Airlines and hotels have many frequent-flyer and frequent-visitor programs in which individuals who fly the airline or stay at the hotel receive bonuses that are the equivalent to discounts.

a- Give two reasons why these companies have such programs rather than simply offering lower prices.

b- Can you give other examples of such programs?

c-What is a likely reason why firms whose employees receive these benefits do not require their employees to give benefits to the firm?

*Please SUPPORT your point with evidence from the textbook or other websites (include citations), whenever possible. Some possible ideas to write about include, describing any connections between the readings or course material, expanding on a concept or idea that struck you in the course material, or offering another explanation or illustrative example.

For Term Paper #1 you are required to pick a product or service you use in your everyday life and describe the market for this product. Please make sure to address the following questions:

1. What factors influence the demand for this product? What factors influence the supply of this product?
2. How have these changes in supply and demand affected the equilibrium price of this product?
3. Do you anticipate any changes to the demand and/or supply of this product in the near future? If so, what is driving these changes?

Complete this essay in a Microsoft Word document in APA format. Please note that your essay needs to have a minimum of 700 words and a maximum of 1100 words.

eate a PowerPoint presentation of 12-15 slides (title and reference slides are not including in this count) discussing Economic Growth and Market Dynamics. Include the following:

1. Explain what GDP is and how is it measured.
2. Evaluate the validity of using GDP as a measure of economic output.
3. Assess the validity of using GDP as a measure of social progress. Which elements (e.g., education levels, carbon dioxide emissions, gender/racial inequality) does GDP not consider?
4. Identify and describe two alternative (multidimensional) metrics that take into consideration more than the exchange value of economic output. Do those metrics capture social progress/well-being? Explain.
5. Explain if public officials focus exclusively—or even principally—on economic growth as a measure of economic policy success. Which other factors are also salient? Why?

Be sure to include graphs, charts and other visuals in your presentation that will enhance your analysis. Include speaker notes below each content-related slide that represent what would be said if giving the presentation in person. Expand upon the information included in the slide and do not simply restate it. Please ensure the speaker notes include 50-75 words per slide.

While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, including an APA formatted reference slide, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite Technical Support articles for assistance.

In a carefully written paper, complete the following:

• List the four components of Gross Domestic Product(GDP) and provide an example of each.
• Explain how each item affects you and the way that you live today

Adhere to the following standards:

• Your paper should be two or three pages in length, not including the title or references pages.
• Review the grading rubric.
• Incorporate at least three scholarly references that are not required readings for this module. The CSU-Global Library is a good place to find these references.
• Be sure to follow the CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA Requirements (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..

Each paper should include an introduction, a body with at least two fully developed paragraphs, and a conclusion.