Read and Article and write and essay
Read the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, or any other major newspaper or weekly publication and select article(s) that (1) either reports on interesting economic news that can be analyzed by the concepts or models taught in this course or (2) discusses one or more economic issues related to the concepts or models taught in this course. You can get an article off of the Internet. Write a FOUR page essay analyzing the topic or critique the article from economic perspectives. Essay must be typed and double-spaced, (Times New Roman, font 12). You can use online news article(s).
The questions that you may address in this essay may include, but are not limited, to the following:
· What is the main economic issue?
· How is the economic issue related to the concepts or models that you have learned from this course?
· What sorts of arguments/opinions have been discussed?
· Do you agree or disagree with the analyses/opinions? Why?
· What argument would you, as an economist, make?
The following is a suggested list of topics. This list is not exhaustive.
INDUSTRY STUDY. For a specific industry, choose a current issue such as deregulation, foreign competition, and the impact of new technologies, mergers/takeovers, changing methods of competition, labor problems, or financial changes.
COMPANY STUDY. Study the recent growth or decline of a particular company or its current position. This topic might include such points as the market structure within which the company grew and now operates, the elasticity of demand for its products, the degree of unionization, the cost structure (degree of fixed cost, economies of scale), the role of advertising, the degree of international competition, etc.
INTERNATIONAL ISSUES. Possible topics are: current economic problems of a particular country, OPEC, the European Union, the U. S. trade deficit, protectionism, U. S. trade relations with Japan or other countries, economic development of a particular country, the World Trade Organization, etc.
GOVERNMENT REGULATION. Analyze some particular government regulation or antitrust policy relative to a specific industry or company or analyze a current regulatory issue (environmental protection, OSHA, the FDA, etc.).
A useful link: Resources for Economists on the Internet: http://rfe.org/
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American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 2015, 7(4): 188–221
http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/mac.20120197
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How Much of South Korea’s Growth Miracle Can Be Explained by Trade Policy?
By Michelle Connolly and Kei-Mu Yi
This paper is simply assessing the benefits that the trade policy reforms and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) reductions had on South Korea’s economy. The authors of this article develop a neoclassical growth model and trade in which reduced tariffs led to an increase in South Korea’s gross domestic product (GDP) per employee. The increase was facilitated by specialization, comparative…
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