What is the purpose of structuring your ideas in the form of a hypothesis? Provide an example of a specific hypothesis and what problems you could solve based on that hypothesis.
Category: economics
Industry economic characteristics
There are approximately 6,000 public companies in the United States (Israel, 2020). A firm is considered to be public if its securities trade on public markets.
Select two public companies from the same industry that trade on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) or the Nasdaq stock exchange. Search the SEC’s EDGAR database for public companies.
Based on the information that you have gathered from annual reports, company Web sites, credit ratings, and scholarly articles, prepare an analysis about the 2 companies. Provide an introduction, a determination of the firms that you chose, and a conclusion regarding the information that you have gathered, which should include the following:
Industry economic characteristics
Porter’s five forces framework
Value chain analysis
Economic attributes framework
Prepare charts for the companies that are similar to those in Chapter 1 of the textbook.
Deliverable Requirements: For the next 5 weeks, you will have a project that will continue throughout all of the units, beginning in Unit 1 and ending in Unit 5. Your discussion and project will be connected each week, so you must complete your discussion work on time. Your analysis must be a PowerPoint presentation of at least 15 slides in length. Be sure to cite sources using the APA style, including references and in-text citations.
Submitting your assignment in APA format means, at a minimum, that you will need the following:
Title slide: Remember the running head. The title should be in all capitals.
Length: 15 slides minimum
Body slides: This begins on the slide following the title slide and must be double-spaced (be careful not to triple- or quadruple-space between paragraphs). The typeface should be 12-pt. Times Roman or 12-pt. Courier in regular black type. Do not use color, bold type, or italics, except as required for APA-level headings and references. The deliverable length of the body of your presentation for this assignment is 15 slides. In-body academic citations to support your decisions and analysis are required. A variety of academic sources is encouraged.
Reference slide: References that align with your in-body academic sources are listed on the final slide of your presentation. The references must be in APA format using appropriate spacing, hanging indent, italics, and uppercase and lowercase usage as appropriate for the type of resource used. Remember, the Reference slide is not a bibliography but a further listing of the abbreviated in-body citations used in the presentation. Every referenced item must have a corresponding in-body citation.
Review of one theory of human intelligence
Provide a critical review of one theory of human intelligence. Do you agree with this theory? Why or why not? Provide research to back up your response.
Type of economic system play on education and students’ experience
What role does the type of economic system play on education and students’ experience? Do free education impact students’ experience, pass rates, and efficiency change for the better or worse?
A self-reflection on why it is important to understand the different types of economies
Compose a self-reflection on why it is important to understand the different types of economies in the social work profession. Consider the relationship between the state, the market and organizations in the creation of social policies and how different economic contexts (capitalism, socialist economy, mixed economy, neoliberalism and political economy) influence the creation of social policies and Social Work practice and service delivery.
A self-reflection on why it is important to understand the different types of economies
Compose a self-reflection on why it is important to understand the different types of economies in the social work profession. Consider the relationship between the state, the market and organizations in the creation of social policies and how different economic contexts (capitalism, socialist economy, mixed economy, neoliberalism and political economy) influence the creation of social policies and Social Work practice and service delivery.
A self-reflection on why it is important to understand the different types of economies
Compose a self-reflection on why it is important to understand the different types of economies in the social work profession. Consider the relationship between the state, the market and organizations in the creation of social policies and how different economic contexts (capitalism, socialist economy, mixed economy, neoliberalism and political economy) influence the creation of social policies and Social Work practice and service delivery.
A cost-minimizing firm
If a unit of capital or labor becomes relatively cheaper, then a cost-minimizing firm will substitute toward the newly cheaper factor of production. Can you think of an example where this occurred in practice?
Increasing or decreasing returns to scale
Roughly speaking, a firm has increasing returns to scale if doubling all inputs leads to output increasing by more than a factor of two. Decreasing returns to scale is when doubling all of a firm’s inputs, while likely increasing output, increases output by less than a factor of two. Whether returns to scale are increasing or decreasing often depends on how much room for increased specialization a firm has. Do you have experience, as either an employee or a customer, with a firm that as it grew seemed to experience either increasing or decreasing returns to scale? Why do you suspect this was the case?
The factors that contribute to economic growth.
This week, we want to examine in greater detail the factors that contribute to economic growth. Economic growth is measured by growth in Real GDP, but many factors contribute to that.
Among the generally recognized factors that contribute to economic growth are:
Increases in the amount of physical capital: this can be measured by changes in investment spending (software is included in this category);
Advances in technology: this can be approximated by research and development spending;
increases in human capital: this can be approximated by years of education; however, this is a very unreliable measure as educational quality is highly variable; and
Other factors, such as the size of the labor force, also come into play and can be measured rather easily. However, to be meaningful, there has to be a match between the skills possessed by the labor force and the needs of the economy. Thus, the mere size of labor has to be viewed with the human capital variable in mind.
Government regulations, tax policy, immigration policy, interest rates all play a role in investment and thus, economic growth.
For this week’s discussion, gather information on growth in Real GDP and as many other variables as possible on a country of your choice. Report the data and your analysis to the class. Remember that understanding and interpreting the data is more important than just reporting the data.