Economics

 
Paper.
Objective paper:
The participant is able to describe a actual macro topic. In order to do so, the participant can formulate a (central) research question with related sub questions and relate these into micro economic solutions.
Criteria:
•Size approx. 9 pages (content).
•Formulate a research question + sub questions.
•Use external literature research (Harvard-Guidelines) to underpin research.

•Use at least 4 external sources.

Background:
The Troika (European Commission, ECB and IMF) has financially supported a number of European countries, including Ireland, Spain and Greece. The offered loans were used to strengthen the financial position of the countries and prevent them to go (technical) bankrupt. These were not free loans. In return for receiving this financial assistance, the countries with the deficits had to comply with the terms and reform their economy.
Based on the findings of the Troika it periodically determined if the countries make sufficient progress and whether there is need for continuation of financial support.
In the meantime (June 2014) the economic environment is significantly improved: Spain and Ireland are standing on their own two feet again. Greece at first has made a modest progress. In autumn 2014 the Troika announced that Greece needed an additional (third) loan. Due to political instability new elections were needed. This was won by the left wing party Syriza. In order to keep their promise to the voters, a long and fruitless period of negotiations with the Troika, broke the fragile economic recovery.

Assignments:
A1. Sketch briefly the starting situation of the crisis.
A2. Sketch briefly the starting situation for the three countries, which led to the inevitable need for financial support.
The Troika has demanded country by country to execute a number of specific measures in order to reform the economies. Resolves the following situations to micro-economic market models.

B1. Ireland: in Ireland, the VAT goes up to 23%. Illustrate by graph this effect.

B2. Greece: in Greece the transport licenses are abolished. The price of a license amounted to € 100.000, – Now those are abolished, anyone can be a truck driver. Illustrate by graph the function of a licensing system.

B3. Spain: in Spain is a general pay cut of 10% proposed. Illustrate by graph the functioning of such a pay cut.
The Netherlands also cannot escape reforms. With the liberalization of the housing market -by limiting the mortgage interest deduction- a first step is taken. Assume that the current deductible interest amounts €10.000, – per year per household. The deduction will drop to € 5.000, – per year per household. A million households use the mortgage interest deduction.
C1. Explain what will happen and illustrate by graph this limitation.
Due to the economic crisis, the housing prices dropped by 20% (compared to July 2008). Many new bought houses have a property value lower than the price paid for. In order to stimulate the housing market, the Gov’t has introduced a temporary tax free donation scheme. According to this measure, parents could in the fiscal of 2014, donate a tax-free amount up to € 100.000, to their children. The amount could only be used for housing renovation or to lower the mortgage. The donation scheme was popular. Halfway the fiscal 50,000 households have already used it.

C2. Is according to the economic principle this donation scheme fair? Explain your answer?

Investigating the Synergistic Effects of Retention and Socioeconomic Status on Student Academic Achievement

 
Hello!You last worked on my dissertation back in September. I finally received my evaluation on my proposal from my committee member. The CM suggested that I go through the entire paper (see attachment) removing all those extra “that” throughout paper…as per the new APA. He marked several (but not all) of them with yellow marker. He suggests you read through slowly you will see what he means. According to CM it is a much better read without the extra “that.” Also he posited a profound thought/question; since this is a quantitative study, meaning counting numbers, are you planning to simply count the number of students who were held back…as well as count the number to see if they are rich or poor? If that is the case, do you feel this is well enough explained in the paper? Please address these concerns, and explain as he indicates. The attachment has comments from CM. Please make the suggested corrections.

Economic

Write a essay to connect my major (Economic) about renewable energy and the environment.
This essay is write about the renewable energy and the environment which need connect my major (Economics). I will upload the requirement as a PDF file, if you didn’t see it, please contact me as soon as possible

International economics ( exam questions)

 
*Please answer the questions by using SIMPLE simple language so I can understand it very well.
* please answer question 1 in 2 pages And question 2 in 2 pages.
Q1 ( 2 pages)
(a) Explain the difference between hedging and speculation in the currency market and discuss the circumstances that give rise to each phenomenon.

(b) Discuss the circumstances under which the forward rate of exchange of a currency would be at discount or a premium to the spot rate.

(c) What would be the impact on the Irish economy if the euro appreciates against the US dollar?
Q2 ( 2 pages)

(a) Explain uncovered interest rate parity and discuss its implications?
(b) What is the relationship between the spot and forward rate of a foreign currency?
(c) How does a country’s inflation rate affect its exchange rate?

labor economics

 
Please answer all questions separately
Imagine a population where there is only one level of ability. The Department of Economics of
University A is asked to estimate the returns to schooling for this specific population. The research team
gathers data from all levels of educational qualifications and estimates the following specification:
log() = + ℎ
Where w is the worker’s wage rate, s is the number of years of schooling and b captures the returns to
schooling. The researchers find that the returns to schooling are equal to = 0.07 .
a. What do the findings suggest about the relation between years of schooling and wages?
Interpret the result. Do the findings agree with economic theory? [30%]
b. University B criticizes the methodology used by University A, claiming that important
determinants are omitted from the main specification. They suggest that the “Mincer equation”
is used instead. Explain what the “Mincer equation” is and why it might be a more appropriate
approach in this framework. [25%]
c. Imagine that the initial population has two levels of ability instead of one; High and Low.
Ability is unobservable. University A uses the Mincer equation to estimate the returns to
schooling. University B claims that the estimate is biased. What kind of biases does estimating
this equation in a population with two different ability levels cause? Is the final estimate likely
to be overestimated or underestimated due to those biases, and why? [25%]
d. University A hires you to find a way to properly estimate the returns to schooling. Suggest a
method you would use to correct the biases, and describe it. [20%]
General instructions about the assignment:
Presentation: The file submitted should be in word or pdf format.
Length: Between 3 and 5 A4 pages (Times New Roman, 11 or similar). Use the layout on this document
as a reference point.
Marks allocation: as described

econ

 
Attempt both Parts A and B, each part is of equal weight in the final grade.
Part A: Answer one of the following 3 questions in a short legibly-written or preferably typed essay, of maximum 500 words:
1. Do you think that economic thinking has progressed, in the sense of the evolution of a science, in that economic ideas have progressively become better and are hence better today than they were in the past? Why or why not? Explain, giving some examples.
2. Who, of the economic thinkers you have studied in this course, do you think provides the most accurate description of the workings of the economy and of economic behaviour, both with respect to his or her times, and ours? Explain.
3. Which, of the major schools of economics you have studied in this course (e.g. Classical, Neoclassical, Marxian, Keynesian, Austrian, Institutional, Schumpeterian, etc.), do you feel provides the most accurate description of the workings of the economy and of economic behaviour, both with respect to the school’s times, and ours? Explain.
Part B: Answer one of the following 3 questions in a short legibly-written or preferably typed essay of maximum 500 words:
1. Do you think that all students who major in economics should be required to take a course in the history of economic thought? Why or why not? Explain.
2. Do you think that knowledge of the history of economic thought is useful to students who don’t major in economics? Why or why not? Explain.
3. “Ideas are inherently conservative. They yield not to the attack of other ideas but to the massive onslaught of circumstance with which that cannot contend.” (J.K. Galbraith). Discuss with respect to either Classical economics, Marxian economics, Neoclassical economics, Keynesian economics, or the Neoclassical Synthesis.

economics of arts and cultural industry

 
3. Considering the changing environment of the broadcasting industry, does microeconomic analysis provide justification (or not) for the BBC to continue in its current form?

Unpacking Notes: The BBC is the UK’s public service broadcaster, currently funded by mandatory license fee, but its remit is due for renewal in 2016. Even though the question states ‘economic justification’, you can include issues of social welfare as they are generally considered in economic analyses

The maximum length of the essay is 3,500 words (excluding footnotes, appendices, tables and graphs imported from a secondary source and attributed as such and reference list. The word count does include direct quotations, summaries or citations used to credit the source of an idea or to support a point or argument within the main text of the essay, including the name, date and page number [where applicable] used to attribute the source). 3,500 words is the strict maximum, there is no “margin for error”.

Economic analysis of Auctions

 
In approximately 5 pages, you will describe a historical or contemporary example of an auction, how it is conducted, and how it relates to the theoretical models and concepts of auction. Some of the goods sold at auction include stamps, timber, fish, flowers, cranberry concentrate,
cars, art and wine, radio spectrum licenses, and abandoned storage units. They are
used for procurement (these are sometimes called “reverse auctions”), for entertainment
(Swoopo is one example of these “penny auctions”), and in takeovers of companies.
You may write about one of the auctions mentioned here, if you wish, but you are also
encouraged to seek different topics and additional sources.

Content:
1.Seller 2.Buyers 3.Auction Rules and Outcomes 4.Theory ( I will attach an additional file)

Present the following:
1. A complete description of the auction. (The first three lists of question from content will give you
an idea of the kind of material to present here.)
2. A discussion of how this auction application compares to the theory we have learned.
(See the fourth list of questions above.)

ECON 101 final

This assignment is for my International Political Economy
Class,
Instructions of the exams

• For this exam you only choosing one question from the list (EXAM TOPICS)
• To answer the question, you need to follow the instructions bellow
• Answering the question that you chose should be from (5 to 8 pages)
• The key important thing is using a footnote and using the lectures notes
• The textbook that we use is (Oatley, Thomas International Political Economy: 5th Edition.
• The Instructor:
W. Seay, “The Origins of political Economy”
ECON 101:Virginia Commonwealth University.

The instructions of exam:

1- Introduction
The introduction should have the theses statement ( one sentence) no longer that 2 sentence.

2- each paragraph in the Body needs to have closing sentences with your analysis (from 5-8 sentences).

Exams in your response exams

Sources
1- the primarily sources data should be from
• 5 paragraphs from the lecture notes
• 5 paragraphs from the text book
• 5 paragraphs from scholarly books
• 5 paragraphs from scholarly articles

2- the secondary resources data from
• Magazine, newspaper and journals

3- you should use one of two graphs

***NOTE THAT ALL DATA SHOULD BE FOOTENOTED AND ALSO THE DATA FROM LECTURES NOTE AND TEXTBOOK NOTES SHOULD ALSO FOOTNOTED.

Exam Completion: This information is from the syllabus

1-ALL EXAMINATIONS WILL BE RESEARCH BASED AND MUST CONTAIN DATA FROM SCHOLARLY BOOKS AND ARTICLES, DOCUMENTS, CLASS LECTURE NOTES AS WELL AS MAPPING ACTIVITIES.

2. STUDENT S WILL BE GIVEN AN ESSAY TOPICAL GUIDE FOR EACH OF THE THREE EXAMS

3. EACH RESPONSE IS TO BE 5-8 PAGE, TYPED, AND DOUBLE SPACED. DATA FROM CLASS LECTURES AS WELL AS THE TEXT ARE TO BE USED*****HOWEVER, STUDENTS MUST FOOTNOTE AT LEAST THREE BITS OF DATA FROM THREE SCHOLARLY SOURCES (THREE BOOKS OR TWO BOOKS AND ONE ARTICLE) TO PROVE THEY HAVE MADE THIS EXAM ASSIGNMENT ONE THAT IS RESEARCH BASED. THE PROFESSOR WILL ALSO RECOMMEND VARIOUS SCHOLARLY BOOKS CONCERNING IPE THAT STUDENTS SHOULD REFERENCE. YET PUPILS MAY USE BOOK SOURCES INDEPENDENT OF WHAT IS RECOMMENDED. *** DO NOT, HOWEVER, USE ONLY ONLINE ARTICLES. THIS WILL NOT MAKE FOR AN ACCEPTABLE EXAM.

**TWO OR THREE ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL DOCUMENTS MAY BE USED ALONG WITH OR IN PLACE OF ARTICLES. THE MORE DIVERSE THE RESEARCH, THE HIGHER THE GRADE A STUDENT MAY RECEIVE.

*** You are not allowed to use the following databases: Wikipedia, Secopedia, and any website similar to it.

4. AT LEAST 10-15 PARAGRAPHS IN EACH EXAM ESSAY SHOULD DERIVE FROM THE LECTURE AND MAP NOTES WHILST A REMAINING 10-15 PARAGRAPHS ARE TO BE BASED UPON SCHOLARLY SOURCE RESEARCH (BOOKS AND ARTICLES BY ECONOMISTS, GEOGRAPHERS, POLITICAL SCIENTISTS AND HISTORIANS AS WELL AS DOCUMENTS).
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– The exam topics.
– The format.
– The class note that I have.

In case you don’t have any access to the course book (Oatley, Thomas International Political Economy: 5th Edition)

• All reports will use Times New Roman font, 12 pitch and double line spacing.

any economic idea

• The topic about any economic idea and write about it.
• First I have to State and identify what is opportunity is and why?
• Double Space, APA Style, 6 Pages
• I know its not enough details but For more details finds the voice records.