Tag: Economics

Your assignment is to provide a final report for Ruby Red Movie Theater in which you address the concerns that have been outlined in the previous six units of this class, indicating any outsourcing or vertical integration options Ruby Red Movie Theater may be able to implement.Be specific regarding the analysis you performed in each area of study. Your recommendations for improvements for the theater should be based on economic theory and your analysis. Your complete analysis of the theater, the industry, and opportunities that may exist are crucial for the future profitability of the theater.Revise the information from previous assignments as needed and pull everything together to create a cohesive, comprehensive report. What this means is that this final report should be original updated work, though it is based on your previous assignments. Do not just copy and paste your previous assignments into one paper. Also, be sure to incorporate any suggestions your instructor made in your previous assignments.New information will be added for Unit VII, which will focus on the information provided in this unit. The topics for this section will include why firms exist, the factors that create a situation where vertical integration is desirable, and why firms would use outsourcing, as well as how this information can be applied to the Ruby Red Movie Theatre.The following is a list of items and sections you should include in your final report. Replace the unit numbers with appropriate titles for the information in each section.

Title page

Table of contents

Introduction

Unit I

Results write-up from Unit I, including recommendations

Unit II

Results write-up from Unit II, including recommendations

Unit II Tables

Unit II Graphs

Unit III

Results write-up from Unit III, including recommendations

Unit IV

Results write-up from Unit IV, including recommendations

Unit IV Tables

Unit V

Results write-up from Unit V, including recommendations

Unit V Tables

Unit VI

Results write-up from Unit VI, including recommendations

Unit VII

Results write-up from Unit VII, including recommendations

Conclusions and final recommendations

Reference page

Insert labeled tables after the reference page

Adhere to APA Style (APA 7th edition) when constructing this assignment, including in-text citations and references for all sources that are used. Please note that no abstract is needed. 

Our world is one of unavoidable scarcity, and so to use more resources to produce guns is to have fewer resources available to make butter. There’s no such thing as a free lunch, a free gun, or a free anything else.

 Locate two JOURNAL articles that discuss this topic further. You need to focus on the Abstract, Introduction, Results, and Conclusion. APA Format, No Plagiarism, 350 words or more

It’s a final essay regarding Indigenous Economic Development in Canada. I have a lot of sources and information available, but I need to fill out some missing information in my paper. I need the intro to be done with a thesis, add more information in the 2nd part (lit review), same thing for part 3 and to make a conclusion. I have already started the paper and have added info. But it’s time consuming for me and I will upload all of the important files I have gathered so you can use them as sources. I will also upload the instructions.

Please write 4 pages about methodology and 3 pages for the result. or 3 pages about methodology and 4 pages for the result.

Your subject is closely related to the Cobb-Douglas production function. See Equation (7) in the uploaded paper. Learn what are the parameter values and how the paper estimates or calibrates them.

You need to choose the database, “Econlit,” and search papers with “dsge” and “natural resources.” (dsge means dynamic stochastic general equilibrium.) Also you need to search “Google Scholars” with “Cobb-Douglas function”

Instructions
For the term paper, you are required to pick a current economic topic that relates to the material we have covered or will cover in this course. You will research and find an article that covers the topic you have chosen. You can use an article online or offline from any reputable source. You will write up a review of the article and integrate course concepts into your review. Please make sure you both summarize the article and discuss how it relates to the course.

Complete this essay in a Microsoft Word document in APA format. Your work will automatically be submitted to Turnitin for plagiarism review. Please make corrections as required. Please note that a minimum of 700 words for your essay is required.

Expound upon section 301 report on China and USTR report on China, so look into the ways
China has continually subverted the market-led
approach they agreed to, and specifically analyzing
their specific actions. Then I would like to go further
and look into the sanctions imposed by the Trump
administration and the Phase One Agreement and
analyze if there has been any real affect on China’s
behavior, and if not what action should be taken.

For this writing assignment, you are to pick song lyrics for one song that relates to any of the economic ideas/concepts that we have covered in class. The entire song does not have to be related to economic concepts, but you need to be able to make several connections using the lyrics. I highly suggest that you contact the writing center on campus, as they can help make sure you are writing coherently!

Song Choice Instructions

When it comes to picking a song to analyze:

Your song CANNOT be about economics, like in this example (Links to an external site.) (all these types of songs do is regurgitate economic definitions of concepts). The point of this assignment is to pick a “regular” song and make connections of economic concepts to it, not to simply find a song that is repeating definitions of concepts we have learned about. However, that doesn’t mean it has to be a “radio” song either. I have had students choose songs from popular theater plays and Disney movies.
You do NOT have to pick a “clean” song. I am an adult and can handle adult language/themes.
You need to find a song that you can pluck at least three concepts from.
Banned Songs

The following songs cannot be used for this assignment, or you will receive a zero:

“I’m Gonna Miss Her” by Brad Paisley, because I have provided examples of the assignment using this song (see below)
“7 Rings” by Ariana Grande
“Let the Dollar Circulate” by Billy Paul
“Money” by Pink Floyd
“Price Tag” by Jessie J
“Taxman” by The Beatles
“Gotcha” Songs To Be Wary Of

Just because a song’s title contains the words “Supply and Demand,” “Opportunity Costs,” or “Money” does not automatically mean it is a perfect candidate for this assignment. In fact, I have found in the past that students hardly ever correctly connect the concepts of supply and demand to music lyrics, so just be careful if you do choose one of these songs that you know what you’re talking about when analyzing the lyrics.

First Page Instructions

On the first page, include the following information a single page (see the GOOD example linked below for further clarification):

Your name, the class and your section number, and the assignment title
Do NOT put this in a header so that it repeats on every page. Only on the first page should this information show.
Name of the song you are analyzing as well as the singer(s) of the song
The full lyrics of the song you choose, not just the portions of the lyrics you are analyzing
Use Calibri font on this page (Microsoft Word default). Be careful when copy/pasting lyrics from the internet, as the font very often is NOT Calibri after pasting them into a word processor

Analysis Instructions

Your paper must include a two-page minimum, five-page maximum analysis of why you believe the lyrics are related to economic concepts covered in class. Be specific about which lyrics are tied to which concepts and why you believe they are linked! Your first page, which includes the information listed above, does not count towards your minimum page requirement of the analysis of the lyrics.

Since the first-page information listed above must be on a single page, you may need to get creative with font sizes and spacing to make them all fit. However, for the analysis portion, use the following formatting guidelines:

Calibri, 11pt font (this is the default font in Microsoft Word)
Normal margins, which are 1″ on the top, bottom, left, and right (again, this is the default margins setting in Microsoft Word)
Double-spaced (in Microsoft Word, if you highlight a block of text and press Ctrl 2, it will double-space that block of text)
Note: If you do choose a song with very long lyrics in which you will need to manipulate the first page information to fit onto a single page (single space, smaller font size, use of columns, changing margins of the page, etc.), I would suggest that you write your entire analysis first, and then go back to add in the information requested on the first page. If you do crazy stuff with the first page at the start, you may not have the required formatting guidelines set correctly for the rest of your analysis.

Don’t Do These Things

I have used this assignment in my course for several semesters and have had students write some very interesting and clever papers, and some have written… less interesting and less clever papers. Here is a list of things to avoid when writing your paper, because they will cost you points:

Talk about the supply and demand of money. While supply and demand is considered a microeconomics topic, specifically talking about the supply and demand of money is actually a macroeconomics topic, and therefore something we do not analyze in this course… so don’t talk about it in your paper!
Droning on about a single concept repeatedly for the entire paper. As stated above in the Song Choice section, you need to pick a song that you can find at least three different concepts to talk about. It’s okay if they are similar, such as 1) opportunity costs, 2) marginal benefit vs marginal cost, 3) utility maximization. These three concepts could all be applied to the same lyric as long as you can identify/explain the connection. But do not pick a song full of choices made by the signer and go on and on and on about each individual choice and its associated opportunity cost. Variety is the spice of life, they say!
Using massive amounts of filler. Students in the past have used all kinds of methods of filler to reach the two-page minimum, including massive amounts of blank spaces, giant headers, copy/pasting large graphs into the paper, etc. Just… just don’t do it, okay? “Filler” includes, but is not limited to:
Detailing information about the song origin, author, meaning, sales, etc. This paper is not for you to tell me why the song was so impactful when it was first released, what the song meant personally to the artists or yourself, how many records the album sold… none of this has to do with what we are talking about in the course!
Speaking about your feelings on the assignment. Do not write about your thoughts on this assignment, such as how hard it was (or how easy) or how much you liked it (or hated it), such as the cases of these unedited quotes from previous papers:
“When I first found this song, it was shocking how catchy it was. … I love this song now and I am putting it on one of my playlists.”
“Economics in music is actually more common than you would think, at first when I read this assignment, I was worried that I wouldn’t be able to think of a song but after only about a minute I could think of at least five different songs I could’ve chosen.”
“I think this song after researching it was able to provide insight on microeconomics more than I thought a song would be able to do.”
Defining economic concepts. You’re writing this paper for an audience who understands economics. Therefore, you do not need to define every economic concept you’re making a connection to. If you need to state part of the definition to make a point, that is fine. But saying things like, “Economics is all about choices, because scarcity exists. And with every choice comes opportunity costs. In the song [x], the singer lists many different opportunity costs from making several decisions, which I will discuss in detail.” The first two sentences in that quote are completely unnecessary and are just filler!
Can you tell I don’t like filler? Last bullet point on filler, I promise… but seriously, you’re not fooling anyone… bite the bullet and write a real college-level paper!
Not writing a full two-page analysis. This is a college course, and I’m even offering double spacing (so really, it’s like a one-page minimum on single spacing). I realize that the instructions say “two-page minimum,” but just go ahead and plan for 2.5 pages. Writing an analysis that is one full page and then two or three lines away from the bottom of the second page is NOT a two-page analysis. Don’t take a chance on missing easy points.
Writing about economic topics we have not discussed in class. Many times, students tend to go down a rabbit hole of macroeconomic concepts, which is clearly not in the scope of this course, or into a deeper dive of more advance/complicated microeconomic topics that we did not cover in the course. I do not expect you, nor do I want you, to write about anything other than the covered material from the video lectures I have provided you.
Writing as if you’re having an informal conversation. As you’ve seen in my lectures, I’m a fairly informal speaker when teaching a concept. But this is a formal writing assignment, so steer clear of conversational tones and informal statements.
Fail to make direct connections to the lyrics. It’s hard to talk about the economics of a song without actually discussing the lyrics in the song. Make sure you have several instances of examples where you are explicitly stating something along the lines of, “When the singer says [x], I feel this can be related to the economic concept of [y] because of [z].”

Topic: Federalism
Directions: In the past decade or so there have been several issues concerning the relationship and responsibilities between the national government and the states. Two issues in particular, as you me be aware, have been some states’ “immigration” laws, and some states’ deregulation of marijuana.

Your initial post must have a minimum of 500 words.

The question to discuss is this: How much responsibility should states have in making laws that affect their own citizens? Should the federal government ensure that state laws are uniform, or should the government, as the 10th Amendment implies, largely leave lawmaking to the states? Why?

You have been hired by one of the prominent alliances of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to develop a blueprint for next year’s climate negotiations, COP 27. You have been tasked with developing a policy brief for your negotiating bloc. In this document, you must synthesize the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) (also see here) of the countries within the bloc, estimate total and average costs of meeting the contributions, and discuss potential pathways for sustainable development based on these costs in relation to the current economic conditions and political approach of the countries within the bloc.

Content
This brief must include:
Socio-economic trends of the group (e.g., GDP, poverty levels/unemployment, HDI, similarities among industries and imports/exports)
Climate effects/risks of the group
Types of NDCs made and associated costs
Policy recommendations for setting/meeting NDCs that maintain or advance the group’s economic standing
Format
Formatting for the brief will follow similar formatting as the individual brief assignment, except that the two-page length is a minimum requirement. Everyone must submit the assignment to Blackboard.
Size 12 font and 1-inch margins. No less than two pages, single-spaced, not including figures/graphics and references. The brief should be in paragraph form, with the following sections:
Title
Executive Summary
Introduction
Body (Main text)
Conclusion
Policy Recommendations/Implications
Contributions
References and Suggested Sources
Your brief may also include boxes and sidebars, tables, photographs, and graphics. The brief should be visually appealing and easy to read.
You must cite any data sources, graphics and general information used in the brief using a standard citation format.
Groupwork Contributions

To complete this assignment, you will need the assignment you completed last module that you saved as BA132_LastName_SalesData.xlsx (or you can download the original assignment here (Links to an external site.)) and a new workbook you can download here (Links to an external site.). Follow the directions, then submit your assignment. If you get stuck on a step, review this module and ask your classmates for help in the discussion forum.

Open both workbooks. Save the new Module 7 file to the Rowan folder on your desktop as BA132_LastName_YearlyTrends.xlsx, replacing “LastName” with your own last name. (Example: BA132_Hywater_Memo) It is a good idea to save your work periodically.

First, we need to combine the information into a single workbook. Add a new worksheet to the Module 7 file and copy the table from the Module 6 assignment to that new tab. Name the new tab “2014”. Be sure to set the number type to currency.

Add another new worksheet. Now we want to set up the spacing for the table we are about to make. Merge the 1 and 2 cells of column A, B, C, D, and E individually (so A1 and A2 merge, B1 and B2 merge, etc). Then name the cells as shown in the list below and center the text in those cells.
A = Month
B = 2012 Sales
C = 2013 Sales
D = 2014 Sales
E = Monthly Trends

Copy the following columns of data over in order: “2012 Sales Total,” “2013 Sales Total,” and “2014 Sales Total.” Remember, you can just copy and paste each column in order, using the columns you have already labeled. When you autofit the column to the data width, your header cells will change.

Now apply conditional formatting to your sales data to highlight any month with a value less than $4,000.

Next, in the ‘Monthly Trends’ column, create a sparkline that shows performance for that month over the three years. Remember, after you create the first sparkline in January, you can just copy and paste into the other cells.

Return to the individual tabs for each year. For each individual year of data, sort the sales total “Z to A” so that the month with the highest sales is at the top. When you chose the “Sort” option, be sure to “Expand the Selection.” That will make sure that the months change as well. The screenshot below shows you only what 2012 should look like, but when you finish you should see October as the highest in 2012, August for 2013, and May for 2014.

Finally, go back to Sheet4 and create a clustered column chart of your data.