The Final Portfolio Assignment is where you pull together the research you’ve been working on the first seven weeks of class. Using your weekly Discussion posts, and the feedback from your classmates and instructor on your posts, construct a 5 page paper that fully explores your research topic in a way that provides the context…

Southwest Airlines is a major carrier based in Texas, and has made a strategy of cutting fares drastically on certain routes with large effects on air traffic in those markets. For example on the Burbank–Oakland route the entry of Southwest into the market caused average fares to fall by 48 per cent and increased market…

Please briefly respond to all of the following questions on each page. There are 3 pages of questions. This exam is a “take-home, open book” exam and posted no later than 8 AM and due back to me by 11:59 PM today. You can use whatever sources that you want to learn more about the…

We’ll be reading more of him, but we’ll also be transitioning to other writers, most specifically Henry David Thoreau (who is much, much easier to understand). So this assignment is going to be a pretty straightforward one. The prompt is: What do you think of Emerson? I want you to be VERY specific here. Don’t…

Mr Mark Lewis is employed on a luxury cruise liner which travels the Mediterranean Sea. After deductions his taxable income is AUD$150,000, (Hong Kong Dollar 790,000)   He owns a farmhouse in Australia which was his family home. After divorcing his wife, the wife took their twins to live in Canada. Mark now rents the…

1. Suppose the demand and supply functions for good X are Qd=50 -8P & Qs= -17.5 + 10P (a) What are equilibrium price and quantity? (b) What is the market outcome if price is $2.75? What would you expect to happen? Why? (c) What is the market outcome if price is $4.25? What would you…

Prepare between 3 to 5 pages (exclude the cover and reference pages) document of your responses and findings based on the given question. LUCRATIVE INVESTOR-STATE DISPUTE SETTLEMENT (ISDS) LAWSUITS In recent months, international law firms have been encouraging ISDS lawsuits citing government measures to check contagion and mitigate their economic consequences, urging clients to invoke…

In the economy of Cambodia, the marginal propensity to consume is 0.9. Investment is $50 billion, government purchases of goods and services are $40 billion, and lump-sum taxes are $40 billion. Cambodia has no exports and no imports. a. The government cuts its purchases of goods and services to $30 billion. What is the change…

The Federal government has introduced JobKeeper payments to tackle the rising unemployment due to COVID-19. Loss of employment has meant a loss of income; this means we are experiencing a decrease in individual demand by households. With affordability now low, income elasticity of demand has been impacted. This paper requires you to use microeconomic analysis…

The Critical Review Paper will be on William Easterly’s book The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor. Length: 8-10 pages Contents: the book review MUST HAVE 3 PARTS: Part 1: Summary of the research question and of the argument, and theoretical framework of the book Part 2: Internal critical evaluation…