** Read the attached article and answer the questions **

Moderna shares jump along with broader market. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 closed at records Monday after a second set of upbeat test results from a potential Covid-19 vaccine lifted shares of companies that have been walloped by the pandemic.

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Question 1:  What news from Moderna caused the positive market moves on Monday?

Question 2:  How have small company stocks performed recently?  What index did the article use to measure small company stock performance?

Question 3:  How will stimulus affect the markets and do you forsee any risk that could mitigate the affect from the stimulus?

Question 4: What have other asset classes signaled to the market about their economics expectations going forward? Do you agree or disagree?

Question 5:  Does the speed of production concern you?  Would you take the initial deployment of the Covid V

Answer the following questions in your text and submit the answers and any supporting spreadsheets to the Week Five Dropbox.

Application Question 2, page 255



The following paragraphs provide a description of the competition between Home Depot and Lowes on selling flowering plants:41
41 Miguel Bustillo, The Garden Gloves Come OffBig Box Retailers Battle to Engineer Prettier, Sturdier, Longer-Lasting Blooms, Wall Street Journal (Online) April 27, 2011.


In the spring Home Depot and Lowes engage in an annual arms race to engineer and develop new scientifically altered versions of common flowering plants that are designed to bloom brighter or withstand neglect longer. The goal in particular is to sell something the other guy doesnt.
Home Depot is the worlds largest home-improvement chain with $68 billion in annual revenue, while Lowes is the second-largest with $49 billion in annual revenue. Although spring is the peak selling season for all me

This week the focus changes from the microeconomic factors that affect management decisions, i.e., market structures, costs, and pricing strategies to the larger events found in macroeconomics such as level of income, employment, and output.

The framework utilized to provide an overall measurement of economic activity is called the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

1 - Review the most current GDP measurement for the U.S. and one other country. Identify any differences between the two measurements and explain why the differences exist, i.e., the components of the measurements are different.


Part of macroeconomics is the spending behavior of individuals and what factors influence this behavior. One factor that significantly influences individual spending is consumer credit.  Following the subprime market debacle financial institutions have increased their requirements for credit: referred to as tightening credit. Based on what has happened with consumer cred

Answer the following questions in your text and submit the answers and any supporting spreadsheets.

Application Question 2, page 319


From the Bureau of Economic Analysis Web page (www.bea.gov), compare real GDP for 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000, and 2010. Show the percentage change in real GDP over each of those decades. Do the percentages of GDP spent on consumption (C), investment (I), government (G), exports (X), and imports (M) differ significantly among those years? Are there changes in the balance of trade over the period? Explain.




Application Question 1, page 359


Use the aggregate expenditure model developed in this chapter to explain the following statements:

A - Coming amid continued turmoil in the financial and credit markets, the report sent stocks lower, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling 146.70 points Friday to close at 11,893.69.

B - Administration officials said they were confident conditions would imp

In the term paper, you are supposed to provide
a written critique of The Travels of A T-shirt in a Global Economy in the context of the
material that you will learn throughout the semester. The critique should be your own work. It
should NOT be longer than three pages, double-sized, 12 size font. You are expected to submit
the paper in the dropbox that is created. I will check for originality using Turnitin. Plagiarism
will be heavily penalized.

Course- Economic Development
Topics Covered - Powerpoints provided below for course context.

I need the essay to summarize a presentation. I'm going to put the presentation in the "upload additional materials". Talking about the challenges, the essay needs to be on one or two main ones and concentrate rather than spread. Teacher gave us some feedbacks : "Your approach is too broad, geographically and thematically.

Income inequality - figure 2. Where is figure 1? please indicate a source.

Technology - how is this relates to your previous discussion? Is this par of the IPAT?

conclusion - it is not clear that they follow on the discussion you have earlier. Make the connection clearer."

The paper should address the issue of a separate tax system for Ontario.  As you have learned, Ontario assesses tax by having taxpayers fill out a separate form calculating the tax.  In the past, Ontario simply determined its tax by taking a straight percentage of the federal tax, a system still used by some provinces (this approach is sometimes called a tax-on-tax or TOT system).  A number of years ago (about 20), Ontario went to a separate calculation, but still uses the federal definition of taxable income (this is called a tax-on-income or TOI system).  In contrast, Quebec has taxpayers fill out an entirely separate tax return, defining taxable income differently than the federal government does (the Quebec system has been in effect far longer than Ontarios).  Some people think that Ontario should follow Quebecs lead, and move to a separate tax return; other people believe that Ontario has already gone too far, and that the complications in doing separa

we are focused on the different environments in which companies operate and the market power related to each of these environments.

The environment in which a company operates is referred to as a market structure. There are four primary structures:  perfect competition; monopolistic competition; oligopoly; and, monopoly. A perfection competition has no market power to influence pricing while a monopoly has market power because it can set prices and in turn increase profits. The other two structures vary in degrees of market power based on combine characteristics of both competitive and monopolistic structures. For the first part of this weeks discussion complete the following task:

***Select one of the major market structures outlined on page 173 of the text, and then identify two existing companies that you believe represent this structure and explain why.


The level, or degree, of a companys market power is directly related to the principle of barriers in

For your case study please choose a company from the list below and explain the reasons why you picked this company:

- Rockwell Automation

- Organic Valley

- Tesla

- Costco

- Starbucks

- Nordstrom

- Expedia

- Verizon

- Domino's

- Facebook

- Uber

- Kohler

- Johnson Controls

- Harley Davidson



- Any multinational company based or originated in Milwaukee or Wisconsin.

Your project should consist of:

-  Explain your choice. - 1 slide.

-  A brief history of a company. - 2 slides

-  Basic facts about the company (don't be afraid to use interesting and fun statistics). - 2-3 slides

-  Products / functions of the company. Please discuss the elasticity of products/services of the company and whether the product has substitutes, complements within the company or in the industry. - 2-3 slides

-  Identification of the mar

Throughout the semester, students will study The Effects of COVID-19 on the U.S. Economy and the Healthcare Industry.
Start collecting the material watch the news, read diverse articles on this issue, get familiar with the new emerging studies, new facts, and observe changes in the economy for this report from the very beginning of the semester. This report should build a bridge between economic and healthcare issues related to pandemic.
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Course Syllabus Medical Economics Fall 2020
This three-page assignment is your chance to showcase your creativity, analytical skills, and ability to synthesize a large amount of information into one cohesive topic.
Your paper should have one inch margins and should be double-spaced, formatted in Times New Roman 12 point font, and be no less than three pages (not including figures, tables, and bibliography, which should be placed at the end of the paper). Be very careful not to plagiarize. Be sure to properly cite all referenced m