Using the tools (terms and concepts from the course) of economists, analyze how these reforms are intended to impact the cost of health care. Summarize your term paper by sharing your educated opinion if these reforms will work or not, cite your work.

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ECONOMICS of the Affordable Care Act

Your Term Paper must address the ECONOMICS of the Affordable Care Act, with a focus on identifying and explaining the economic impact of one reform initiative for each of the following years (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014). Reform initiatives should include insurance, provider, reimbursement and or technology, etc. Using the tools (terms and concepts from the course) of economists, analyze how these reforms are intended to impact the cost of health care. Summarize your term paper by sharing your educated opinion if these reforms will work or not, cite your work.

Prepare an Excel spreadsheet that has two columns and four rows. In cells A3, A4, and A5 descending below this heading, type the three years that you have chosen.

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DISCUSSION ESSAY

In this exercise, you will demonstrate your ability to find macroeconomic data from public sources and display it in an Excel spreadsheet.

Start by choosing one of these three macroeconomic variables: Real GDP, the unemployment rate, or the inflation rate.
Follow these instructions to find numbers for your macroeconomic variable for three consecutive years:
Table 1.1.6. https://apps.bea.gov/iTable/?reqid=19&step=3&isuri=1&nipa_table_list=6 (Real Gross Domestic Product, Chained Dollars). Select Modify and choose 2015-A&Q as the First Year. Under Series, select Annual. The Real GDP numbers for each year are in Line 1.
https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000 (Labor Force Statistics From the Current Population Survey). These unemployment numbers are monthly, not annual. Use the January number for each year. https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUUR0000SA0L1E?output_view=pct_12mths
(CPI for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U)). These inflation numbers are monthly, not annual. Use the January number for each year.

Prepare an Excel spreadsheet that has two columns and four rows. In cells A3, A4, and A5 descending below this heading, type the three years that you have chosen.
In the heading for cell B2, type the name of the variable you chose (Real GDP, Unemployment Rate, or Inflation Rate). In the cells below this heading, type the values for each of the three years.
Underneath your table, type “Source:” and then paste the URL of the source where you found your data.

Describe the role and effectiveness of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). Compare Curitiba, Brazil and Portland, Oregon (Core Case Study, Chapter 22) as ecocities. Use the Three Scientific Principles of Sustainability in your comparisons.

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Final exam

Answer the following 21 questions listed below will help you prepare me for my final Exam. These questions are not taken verbatim from the exam and do not cover every topic area associated with the final exam

1. Make a numbered list of five ways in which you unnecessarily waste energy during a typical day and explain how these actions violate any of the scientific principles of sustainability.

2. Use the law of conservation of matter (mass) and the two laws of thermodynamics (energy) to explain why even recycling and reuse cannot lead to sustainability, especially on a planet with an exponentially growing population using ever-increasing amounts of energy and materials and producing ever-increasing amounts of waste.

3. Why do we need to make a new energy transition over the next few decades?

4. You are in charge of the world. Make a numbered list of the three most important components of your strategy for dealing with each of the following:
(a) solid waste, and
(b) hazardous waste.

5. Man-made chemicals are considered innocent until proven guilty – consider PCB’s, for example. What might be a better policy regarding the introduction of new chemicals into the environment, considering what we’ve learned the hard way since the beginning of the industrial revolution?

6. What are three consumption patterns or other aspects of your lifestyle that directly add greenhouse gases to the atmosphere?

7. Why are most of the largest urban areas located near water?

8. What effect might climate change due to human caused global warming have Last updated: 20 August 2018 – EVN 330- Final Exam Study Guide

9. What are (a) the major causes, (b) consequences and (c) the solutions for ocean acidification? (d) How will ocean acidification affect your children’s and grandchildren’s lives?

10. Describe the role and effectiveness of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).

11. Compare Curitiba, Brazil and Portland, Oregon (Core Case Study, Chapter 22) as ecocities. Use the Three Scientific Principles of Sustainability in your comparisons.

12. Explain how the US local property tax structure leads to poor land use planning and urban sprawl.

13. Apply the Three Scientific Principles of Sustainability to John Todd’s “Living Machine” (SCIENCE FOCUS 20.3) approach to waste water treatment and explain how the system works.

14. What is “environmental justice?

15. Do you believe that we have an ethical responsibility to leave the earth’s natural systems in as good a condition as they are now or better? Explain.

16. Explain how growing corn in the Midwest of the U.S. to produce ethanol and protein-rich meat can decrease the production of protein-rich seafood in the Gulf of Mexico (Core Case Study, Chapter.).

17. Consider Donella Meadows’ contrast between neoclassical economics and  ecological economics (pp. 648-650; Using Lessons from Nature to Make the Transition).

18. What viewpoints are summarized in Chapter 25?

19. Do you agree or disagree with Theologian Thomas Berry views that the industrial–consumer society built on the human-centered, planetary management environmental worldview the “supreme pathology of all history.” He says, “We can break the mountains apart; we can drain the rivers and flood the valleys.

Describe the role that workers play in the game of economics. Explain why the worker’s role is unique.

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Unit Test Part 2: The Players

Answer the following questions based on what you have learned.

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  1. Describe the role that workers play in the game of economics.

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  1. Explain why the worker’s role is unique.

 

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  1. Explain why it is important for producers to conduct market research.

 

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  1. Give at least one example of a type of market research that producers conduct. Explain the kind of information this research provides.

 

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  1. Describe the meaning of utility in economics and explain why it is different from one consumer to another.

 

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  1. Why do economists try to measure and understand utility?

 

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  1. List two characteristics of an oligopolistic industry.

 

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  1. Why are so many familiar industries oligopolies?

 

 

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  1. Explain why circulation and ratings systems determine how much money different advertisements cost to run.

 

 

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Write a research paper on Adam Smith.

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Economics Question

Write a research paper on Adam Smith.

 

Explain the determinants of net working capital and the cash conversion cycle. How can these strategies be used in Saudi Arabian companies? Why is working capital so important to a firm when the presence of credit and leverage tend to be utilized more? What advantage does a highly liquid firm have over a highly leveraged firm? Explain.

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DISCUSSION ESSAY

Working capital management involves managing the firm’s liquidity, which—in turn—involves managing the firm’s investments in current assets and in the use of current liabilities.

Explain the determinants of net working capital and the cash conversion cycle. How can these strategies be used in Saudi Arabian companies? Why is working capital so important to a firm when the presence of credit and leverage tend to be utilized more? What advantage does a highly liquid firm have over a highly leveraged firm? Explain.

Embed course material concepts, principles, and theories, which require supporting citations along with three scholarly peer-reviewed references supporting your answer.

Be sure to support your statements with logic and argument, citing all sources referenced.

 

Provide a brief history of the firm and of how antitrust issues led to the breakup/disciplinary action; discuss the market structure both before and after the breakup/disciplinary action and explain how the nature of goods and services the firm provides to the marketplace have changed; discuss how the firm’s relationship with the US government has changed.

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Proposed Topic

1. Culminates in a before and after analysis of a publicly-traded (NYSE or NASDAQ) US firm that has been broken up by the US government or been subject to disciplinary action for violation of US anti-trust laws.

2. Provide a brief history of the firm and of how antitrust issues led to the breakup/disciplinary action; discuss the market structure both before and after the breakup/disciplinary action and explain how the nature of goods and services the firm provides to the marketplace have changed; discuss how the firm’s relationship with the US government has changed.

3. This should be one substantial paragraph in which you submit the name of the firm you will discuss, as well as an explanation of the issue and the type of analysis you will use (breakup or disciplinary), providing specific details of your proposed topic

What does “least squares” estimates mean? What is being estimated? What is being squared? In what sense are the squares “least”? What does it mean to have an R2 of 0.00? Is it possible for R2 to be negative? What about ?

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DISCUSSION QUESTION

  1. Consider the following two least-squares estimates of the relationship between interest rates and the federal budget deficit in the United States:

Model 1:

N = 56, R2 = 0.00

where:         = Interest rate on AAA corporate bonds

= Federal budget deficit as percentage of GNP

 

Model 2:   .369

N = 38, R2 = 0.40

where:         = Interest rate on 3 – month Treasury bills

= Federal budget deficit in billions of dollars

= Rate of inflation (in percent)

  1. What does “least squares” estimates mean? What is being estimated? What is being squared? In what sense are the squares “least”?
  2. What does it mean to have an R2 of 0.00? Is it possible for R2 to be negative?  What about ?
  3. R2 tells us what percent of variation in the dependent variable from its mean can be explained by a regression model (regression equation). How does an increase in R2 impact TSS, ESS, and RSS for a given regression equation?
  4. What signs would you have expected for the estimated slope coefficients of the two models?
  5. Comparing the two equations, which model has estimated signs corresponding to your prior expectations?
  6. Can one argue that model 2 is preferred on the basis of fit?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Choose a product. As a buyer, what are two criteria that you have for buying this product? As a producer, what are two factors that you would consider when making and selling this product?

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Econ discuss 2

Choose a product. As a buyer, what are two criteria that you have for buying this product? As a producer, what are two factors that you would consider when making and selling this product? Be specific in your responses.

no sources cited this is an opinion piece.

How does the Federal Reserve (“the Fed”) use monetary policy? What changes have been made to the policy to correct for the economic challenges over the past 20 years?

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Monetary policy and changes made over time

This assignment is intended to help you learn to do the following:

  • Describe how the Federal Reserve is organized.
  • Identify the Fed’s three primary policy tools and how they alter the economy.

Overview
Review the section of your text that covers monetary policy and changes made over time to compensate for the economic changes over the past 20 years. In addition, find and read two recent articles on this topic.

Write a 500-750 word (approximately 2 to 3 page) paper that addresses these questions:

  • How does the Federal Reserve (“the Fed”) use monetary policy?
  • What changes have been made to the policy to correct for the economic challenges over the past 20 years?

Support your conclusions with the findings from the articles and the textbook as well as any other sources you would like to use. Format the paper according to General APA Guidelines. You do not need to include an abstract but you must include a title page and a references page. These pages are not included in your word/page count.