Category: Economics

What are the market conditions? Are there too many firms to serve a small population? Is there a huge population demanding the product or service, but not many firms are supplying in the market?

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Research the automative industry and write up a description of the market

What are the market conditions? Are there too many firms to serve a small population? Is there a huge population demanding the product or service, but not many firms are supplying in the market?

Are there any kinds of social-political constraints in such market or industry?

Logistics- cover each of the bullet points listed below:
Importing
Exporting
Shipping and Delivery
Made to order or car dealerships
Storage and Inventory
Why there is a high rate of accidents {tie to additional safety features we want on car}

What are the implications of structural unemployment to Labor Participation Rate in the US? Is there any difference among workers with different educational achievement?

How were these numbers in 2009 during the height of the 2008/2009 recession? Would you expect, in the Commercial Paper market, the Yield Curve (interest rate) for bonds in a recession to be high or low? During the previous recession of 2008 / 2009 the Commercial Paper market froze and the Federal Reserve intervened to inject cash into the market. How can we understand/think about it?

How about demand of junk bonds by investors in a recession period versus a strong economic growth period? How can we can understand/think about it?

Why commercial bank lending is important for a country’s economic health and GDP of a particular country?

What is the percentage of domestic credit to the private sector in the USA? Can you say if it is it increasing or decreasing since 2004 to 2019? What is an important reason for the fluctuation?

According to the forthcoming book of Professor Ken Rogoff, what can be reasons for the gradual limitation of dollar bills in the US economy? Please provide a list of them.

provide a brief explanation of each” Frictional versus Cyclical versus Structural unemployment.

In general, would you think that stimulating the economy through interest rates/monetary policy, the Federal Reserve/government may reduce structural unemployment? Would you think that stimulating the economy through interest rates/monetary policy, the government may reduce cyclical unemployment?

Would you expect currently structural unemployment levels to be more/less pronounced in developed or developing economies? What could the government do to alleviate structural unemployment?

What are the implications of structural unemployment to Labor Participation Rate in the US? Is there any difference among workers with different educational achievement?

Deflation was considered a problem for several economies in the past decades. Can you elaborate about the negative (and maybe positive?) effects of deflation? For a particular economy, do economists pay more attention to Core or Headline inflation? What are the arguments in support or against?

Calculate the average growth rate (Just add them up and divide by 10.) across the ten years selected. How does that growth rate compare to our long run average growth rate of about 3%?

Answer the following questions using the data you find:
Submit quarterly data for nominal and real GDP for the last 4 quarters.

Why was nominal GDP (Table 1.1.5) greater than real GDP (Table 1.1.6) in each of the quarters shown?

Calculate the percentage change in nominal GDP and real GDP for the most recent 2 quarters? One quarter to the next.

Click the tab at the top “NIPA Tables,” select Table 1.1.1, click the modify button, select 2012 as the first year, select 2021 as last year, click on annual, then select Refresh Table. Calculate the average growth rate (Just add them up and divide by 10.) across the ten years selected. How does that growth rate compare to our long run average growth rate of about 3%?

What do you think about this in general?Should Government Intervene in Classic Market Failure Facing Colleges as a result of the Pandemic?

Should Government Intervene in Classic Market Failure Facing Colleges as a result of the Pandemic?

Colleges Are Fueling the Pandemic in a Classic Market Failure: colleges face an existential crisis without the revenue from students on campus (room and board fees, event fees, tuition in some cases). Two economists argue that Government intervention would be helpful.

What do you think about this in general?

And, specifically, do you think University of Sasketchwan was right in closing the campus and offering remote classes only? If so, why?

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How equitable and efficient is the US economy? Is the Gini coefficient a good measure of economic inequality? What aspects of inequality does it miss?

Possible prompt:

Is there a tradeoff between equity and efficiency? If so, what’s more important: equity or efficiency?

How equitable and efficient is the US economy? Is the Gini coefficient a good measure of economic inequality? What aspects of inequality does it miss?

How and why does income inequality vary across cities, state, or countries? Has income inequality in the US changed over time? How do governments and families affect economic inequality? What are the costs or benefits to redistribution?

What sorts of policies could redistribute the surplus and increase efficiency in the US?

Identify which of the following statements are good descriptions of the conditions that exist under market equilibrium. Select anyiall statements that are accurate.

Question 1 10 pts

Identify which of the following described scenarios involve a firm acting in such a way as to incur opportunity costs. Select any/all such scenarios.

Identify which of the following statements are good descriptions of the conditions that exist under market equilibrium. Select anyiall statements that are accurate.

Discuss the single most interesting idea or concept introduced in the text, and explain why exactly it is so compelling. Why should we care about this question?

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Discuss the single most interesting idea or concept introduced in the text, and explain why exactly it is so compelling. Why should we care about this question?

Thoroughly discuss what is missing from the text, or how it could be improved, provide his/her own suggestions for improvement. Keep in mind that the critique should be based on the context of the goals of the paper!