Create a SWOT analysis of the location you have chosen for your Case Study Project. A SWOT analysis is an assessment of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats facing this city/town. Feel free to look up examples of SWOT analyses online to help you with this project. This analysis will become a part of your […]

Deficit Spending During the Great Recession, like any other economic downturns, as unemployment rises, aggregate income declines causing a major decline in tax collections. On the other hand, with the rise in unemployment, spending on safety net programs rise. So, there are not too many good options available to resort the health of the national […]

Try as we may, whether economies have markets that are laissez faire, loosely or tightly regulated, orwhether the government is the major decision maker, markets do fail. That is, they fail to register theappropriate/proper/efficient prices and quantities in the marketplace. Costs and/or benefits may, insome markets, spill over onto people outside of the market transactions […]

Chapters 3 & 4book:Economics for Managers, 3rd EditionISBN: 9780133561128By: Paul G. Farnham This week we will be discussing demand elasticity and the impact of consumer behavior on demand. 1)Part 1Demand elasticity is actually a quantitative measurement designed to show percentage changes in quantity demands by consumers.  Elasticity is measured in terms of product prices, consumer […]

The assignment requires us to extract info from fred data base on the 4 US recessions from 1990 to 2020. I already got the numbers and pasted them in the excel file attached. Also , I already did the recession graphs with the numbers from the fred database (Recessions are highlighted in gray in graphs). […]

a) Read the NY Times article (attached or this link: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/business/from-6-economists-6-ways-to-face-2012-economic-view.html  (Links to an external site.)).b) Write a report (clearly typed in a MS-Word file using MS-Word). Your report should be broken into two sections:     Section 1: Summary of the article (first paragraph): Tell me what the article is about and what major points the author […]

The US economy is still recovering from the recent “great recession”. People have been debating about this recovery: “Are we out yet?; how long will it take?; we could have been but the recent government policies have prevented it; no without the help of the government, it could have been worse, and so on….”  Also see these: http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2014/01/01/cnbc-recovery-slowed-economy/4222929/ […]

1. Some background on the country: where it is located, GDP, most important economic sectors 2. The structure of the financial system: most important institutions, most important markets 3. If you find, provide some data for markets (size of the stock market, what market is the most important one when firms need funds, etc) Don’t […]