in Welcome to the Forum Hi All, Here is the forum to post your blog-post 2. Milestone 3 comprises of reading from Weeks 5 and 6. Include these key requirements in your submission: How does the policy of the Federal Reserve bank as well as the Central bank of its key market affect the company’s economic growth? Remember, if your home market is not the US, you would need to use their Central market and not Federal Reserve Bank. Effect of fiscal policies of the home country and one key market on the company. Paper length should be at least 5 pages (including cover and reference pages). Use a minimum of 3 professional references (do not use Wikipedia, blogs, vlogs or any pedias) Paper should be written in APA including Times New Roman, 12 font, double space, paragraphs indented, subheadings used. Note that references provided must have corresponding in-text citations within the paper

This is the third of four milestones for your final project. This should include the following 1. What are the rules of the organization that influenced and impacted the decision, policy, program 2. How did the those impacted by this decision have input into the decision? 3. Which groups or people are mostly impacted by these decisions or policies? 4. What are some of the unintended consequences of these decisions or policies? Remember to include at least 2 references in APA format as well as in-text citations. Students should submit your own responses below:

Hi All, Here is the forum to post your blog-post 2. Milestone 3 comprises of reading from Weeks 5 and 6 (Chapters 34-37) Include these key requirements in your submission: How does the policy of the Federal Reserve bank as well as the Central bank of its key market affect the company’s economic growth? Remember, if your home market is not the US, you would need to use their Central market and not Federal Reserve Bank. Effect of fiscal policies of the home country and one key market on the company. Paper length should be at least 5 pages (including cover and reference pages). Use a minimum of 3 professional references (do not use Wikipedia, blogs, vlogs or any pedias) Paper should be written in APA including Times New Roman, 12 font, double space, paragraphs indented, subheadings used. Note that references provided must have corresponding in-text citations within the paper

Hi All, Here is the forum to post your blog-post 2. Milestone 3 comprises of reading from Weeks 5 and 6 (Chapters 34-37) Include these key requirements in your submission: How does the policy of the Federal Reserve bank as well as the Central bank of its key market affect the company’s economic growth? Effect of fiscal policies of the home country and one key market on the company. Paper length should be at least 5 pages (including cover and reference pages). Use a minimum of 3 professional references (do not use Wikipedia, blogs, vlogs or any pedias) Paper should be written in APA including Times New Roman, 12 font, double space, paragraphs indented, subheadings used. Note that references provided must have corresponding in-text citations within the paper

This is the forum for Week 2 blog post for milestone 1. Students are expected to post at least three quality posts with the initial post by Friday and all replies by Saturday. You can respond to any post from any class or professor or post your own original post. It is a chance to interact with students and faculty from all over the world and in all the Economics classes that are ongoing in the semester. It's important to include at least one reference in APA format per week. This site helps with citing: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_style_introduction.html This is the first milestone. To begin preparing for the first milestone next week, select a multinational corporation for your research. Businesses all over the world are affected by macroeconomic factors like interest rates, exchange rates, trade deficits, gross domestic product, inflation, unemployment rate. All of these can affect a company's bottom line by influencing the cost and availability of money, goods, and services. Macroeconomic forces can conspire to make business more difficult, but they can also present opportunities to executives who know how to, for example, read a country's national income accounts and balance of payments to help in deciding whether to invest in that country. Select a multinational corporation for this course project. This will be a firm that has a substantial record of being analyzed through published material that can be in the Regent library or elsewhere. Examples are Coca Cola, McDonald, GM, Ford, Honda, Siemens, Toyota, Saudi Aramco, Nokia, Foxconn, Royal Dutch Shell, Volkswagen, BP, Gazprom, Fiat, Sony, Samsung, LG, Alibaba, Schneider Electric, Acer, inc, JP Morgan Case, Fujitsu, Lenovo, SAP SE, Hitachi, BMW, and Bayer. Milestone 1 comprises of reading from Weeks 1 and 2 (Chapters 1-3, 26, 28) Include these key requirements in your submission: Does the company have a comparative advantage over its rivals? Explain the supply and demand for its key product or service. Provide the GDP of its home country and a key market (country). How does fluctuations in GDP, economic growth, investments, and patents affect the company’s profitability? Paper length should be at least 4 pages (including cover and reference pages). Paper will be graded on adhering to APA formatting and citation requirements. Use a minimum of 3 professional references (do not use Wikipedia, blogs, vlogs or any pedias) Paper should be written in APA including Times New Roman, 12 font, double space, paragraphs indented, subheadings used. Note that references provided must have corresponding in-text citations within the paper A simple example: Company Overview Boeing is one of the largest aerospace company and America’s biggest manufacturing exporter, the company supports airlines and U.S. and allied government customers in more than 150 countries. The company has over 141,014 employees across the globe. Boeing works with more than 12,000 businesses supporting more than 1 million supplier-related jobs across the United States. These businesses include production suppliers and non-production vendors, as well as subsidiaries of companies to which Boeing made other payments. According to Boeing (2021), the company manufactures the 737, 747, 767, 777 and 787 families of airplanes and the Boeing Business Jet range. New product development efforts include the Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner, the 737 MAX, and the 777X. More than 10,000 Boeing-built commercial jetliners are in service worldwide, which is almost half the world fleet. The company also offers the most complete family of freighters, and about 90 percent of the world’s cargo is carried onboard Boeing planes. Does the company have a comparative advantage over its rivals? Boeing is a leader in innovation and its capabilities in creating new airplanes, designing, building, and integrating military platforms and defense systems; creating advanced technology solutions; and arranging innovative financing and service options for customers. The company provides leading solutions for the design, production, modification, service and support of commercial derivatives, military rotorcraft, satellites, human space exploration and autonomous systems (Boeing, 2021, para. 6). Its rivals include Airbus, Raytheon Technologies, Bombardier, Lockheed Martin among others Explain the supply and demand for its key product or service. The demand for Boeing products is ever increasing. As of September 30th, 2021, it had unfilled orders of 5,059 planes, 241 deliveries, 710 gross orders. Demand for Boeing's products outstrip supply from all around the world including Brazil, Ireland, Germany, UAE, Singapore among others. Provide the GDP of its home country and a key market (country). Boeing’s biggest market is the US with revenues of $39 billion from the US and Europe provides the company with $8 billion in revenues. The GDP of the US is $20.94 trillion, and EU’s GDP is $15.167 trillion How does fluctuations in GDP, economic growth, investments, and patents affect the company’s profitability? Boeing’s biggest markets are the US, EU, Asia and tariffs, inflation or economic instability in any of these regions can impact the company’s profitability. Other factors like COVID restrictions and decrease in travel or air crashes are other factors that affect the company. References Boeing (2021). Company Overview. Retrieved from https://boeing.mediaroom.com/ Statista (2021). Boeing’s global revenue in FY 2020, by region or country in millions US dollars. Retrieved from https://www.statista.com/statistics/680130/revenue-of-boeing-globally-by-region/ The World Bank (2021). GDP-European Union. Retrieved from https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?locations=EU

This is the third of four milestones for your final project. This should include the following 1. What are the rules of the organization that influenced and impacted the decision, policy, program 2. How did the those impacted by this decision have input into the decision? 3. Which groups or people are mostly impacted by these decisions or policies? 4. What are some of the unintended consequences of these decisions or policies? Remember to include at least 2 references in APA format as well as intext citations. Submit your own responses below:

ECON 290 uses the tools of economics to examine decision-making in non-market institutions with a particular emphasis on government decision-making. For the class, students will select topics to write on and it could be a decision or policy from the federal government (like trade policy), state government (like tax policy), local government (like education policy), a charity (like what causes to support). A simple example: Week 2: Milestone 1 A policy or topic to consider is one currently being debated in the California legislature: California is working on a policy to pay people to stay sober. According to the Association Press (2021), this policy is not new as the federal government has been doing it for years with military veterans and research shows it is one of the most effective ways to get people to stop using drugs like cocaine and methamphetamine, stimulants for which there are no pharmaceutical treatments available. Week 4: Milestone 2 This policy also called “contingency management” allows people to earn some incentives or payments for every negative drug test over a while. Most people who complete the treatment without any positive tests can earn a few hundred dollars. The money would be given in form of a gift card. This is important as incentives are one of the core concepts in Economics. According to Lumen (2021), Expectancy theory, suggests that behavior is motivated by anticipated results or consequences. The theory proposes that a person decides to behave in a certain way based on the expected result of the chosen behavior. For example, people will be willing to work harder if they think the extra effort will be rewarded. People struggling with addictions, hospitals, families of people with the addiction as well as the state are interested parties for various reasons. For example, according to the Associated Press (2021), California has struggled with opioid abuse, including drugs like prescription painkillers and heroin. The proposal has already passed the state senate with no opposition and is pending in the Assembly, where it has a Republican co-author (Associated Press, 2021) Week 6: Milestone 3 The program would cost an average of $286 per person. With the overdose deaths from stimulants in California nearly quadrupled between 2010 and 2019, the trend shows an increasing number of cases. According to Associated Press (2021), preliminary data from the first nine months of 2020 when much of the state was locked down because of the coronavirus shows stimulant overdose deaths jumped 42% compared to 2019. While this may enjoy some level of success, it is not perfect and does not work for everyone. Week 8: Milestone 4 Drug counseling, meetings, and pharmaceuticals have limited success for people struggling with addictions. This options tied to monetary incentives may be effective in helping people curb their addictions. Financial incentives do not always work especially if the will or the amount is not financially inviting or encouraging. A better option is to combine all the tools including attending drug counseling, taking effective drugs to help with addiction together with contingency management. Mandating a negative drug test as well as proof of attending an addiction counseling and meeting will be a much better plan rather than just requesting for a negative test. References Associated Press (2021). Associated Press (2021). California Wants to Become the First State to pay people With Addiction to Stay Sober. Retrieved from https://www.npr.org/2021/08/26/1031220835/california-bill-treatment-addiction Lumen (2021). Expectancy Theory. Retrieved from https://courses.lumenlearning.com/wm-introduction to business/chapter/expectancy-theory/