OLIGOPOLY ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS

Discussion Include a brief discussion on the oligopoly market that these two firms compete in (social media market, ride share market, etc.). Mention if these firms follow a Cournot or Stackelberg model (if applicable). What are your expectations for these oligopolies, and this market, going forward? Just answer the question follow my data in the conclusion blank. don’t write more than the blank. about half page.

1.  Data

2.  Forecasts

↑FB→             Moving Average: (237.55 + 251.96) / 2 = $244.76

Exponential Smoothing: (0.9) (251.96) + (0.1) (236.77) = $250.44

↑ TWTR →     Moving Average: (31.89 + 30.81) / 2 = $31.35

Exponential Smoothing: (0.9) (30.81) + (0.1) (31.59) = $30.89

3.  Discussion

1. What is a natural monopoly? What type of entry barrier would prohibit the entry of new firms into a natural monopoly market?
2. The market structure for cloud computing services is best described as oligopoly. Briefly describe the main characteristics of an oligopoly market.
3. Beginning with Adam Smith, many economists have argued that consumers benefit from competition among firms in the same markets. How would competition among Amazon, Microsoft and other providers of cloud computing services benefit their customers?
4. 1. Compare and contrast theories of absolute and comparative advantages.
5. 2. Explain Porter’s “Diamond” model of national competitive advantage.
6. 3. Briefly describe some of the main instruments of trade policy that countries use to interfere with free trade.
7. 4. What are some underlying factors that are causing decoupling to happen as societies move from a uni-polar to a multi-polar world? In your opinion, in which direction is the balance of global-economic power shifting?
8. 5. What are some of the major economic reform themes that are common to the three international organizations promoting globalization?

what role does the FED play in regulating the economy?

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• Is the stock market perfectly competitive? You should look at each of the assumptions of perfect competition and explain whether the stock market meets those assumptions
• 7A Planning: Plan particular times, places, and people with whom to try your new behaviour. Of course, when an unplanned opportunity arises, you obviously should use it as well. The important thing is for you to get in to the pattern of planning your communication behaviour.
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• Almost any behaviour can be planned: compliments, questions, agreement statements, or requests. The more frequently you plan communication behaviour, the more skilled you will become at managing what you do and at having an impact on the interpersonal communication situations in which you participate.
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• 7A1, 7A2, 7A3. Create a list of not less than three specific planned situations in which you will implement your new behaviours. Note: You should also implement your new behaviours in any unplanned situations when you have the opportunity to implement your new behaviours.
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• 7B Evaluation of Planned Conversations: Evaluate your performance each time you attempt your new behaviour in new planned situations.
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• Be sure to record your progress as you proceed. Maintain a journal in which you describe each occurrence of your target behaviour, planned or unplanned.
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• As you proceed with this phase of the project, be prepared for potential problems. You may reach periodic plateaus in which you are not changing as dramatically as you would like. You may discover that your goal statement is not accurate and that you were trying to increase the wrong behaviours. You may also find that by merely monitoring the frequency of your goal behaviour, your problem disappears. In any case, remain flexible and keep working. If necessary, revise your goal statement, change your target behaviour, and promise yourself a reward for reaching some goal. The goal is communication behaviour change, and there are many avenues for achieving and maintaining that change.
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• 7B. Evaluation of Planned Conversations: Evaluate your performance each time you attempt your new behaviour in new planned situations. Write a dated narrative journal evaluation that describes in detail what occurred upon implementation of your new communication behaviours in planned circumstances. Address the three or more planned opportunities as you described them in 7A. Be sure to address the following questions in your evaluation:
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• 7B1. What seemed to work for you?
• 7B2. What did not seem to work?
• 7B3. In what situations where you most successful?
• 7B4. What behaviours would you like to perform again?
• 7B5. What will you do differently the next time?
• 7C. Evaluation of Unplanned Conversations: Evaluate your performance each time you attempt your new behaviour in new unplanned situations. Write a dated narrative journal evaluation that describes in detail what occurred upon implementation of your new communication behaviours in unplanned circumstances. Aim to explain 2 or 3 unplanned conversations. Be sure to address the following questions in your evaluation:
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• 7C1. What seemed to work for you?
• 7C2. What did not seem to work?
• 7C3. In what situations where you most successful?
• 7C4. What behaviours would you like to perform again?
• 7C5. What will you do differently the next time?
• Report for CCC Part 7:
• In this section you are to plan a minimum of three situations in which you will implement your new communication behaviour over a timespan of two weeks. Maintain a dated journal narrative to describe what happened in both planned and unplanned circumstances, including your thoughts on how well you performed the behaviour, as previously described. Include the following items in Part 7 of your report:
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• 7A Planning – 7A1, 7A2, 7A3. Create a list of not less than three specific planned situations in which you will implement your new behaviours. Note: You should also implement your new behaviours in any unplanned situations when you have the opportunity to implement your new behaviours.
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• 7A1 - first planned conversation:
• 7A2 - second planned conversation:
• 7A3 - third planned conversation:
• 7B. Evaluation of Planned Conversations: Evaluate your performance each time you attempt your new behaviour in new planned situations. Write a dated narrative journal evaluation that describes in detail what occurred upon implementation of your new communication behaviours in planned circumstances. Address the three or more planned opportunities as you described them in 7A. Be sure to address the following questions in your evaluation:
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• 7B1. What seemed to work for you?
• 7B2. What did not seem to work?
• 7B3. In what situations where you most successful?
• 7B4. What behaviours would you like to perform again?
• 7B5. What will you do differently the next time?
• 7C. Evaluation of Unplanned Conversations: Evaluate your performance each time you attempt your new behaviour in new unplanned situations. Write a dated narrative journal evaluation that describes in detail what occurred upon implementation of your new communication behaviours in unplanned circumstances. Aim to explain 2 or 3 unplanned conversations. Be sure to address the following questions in your evaluation:
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• 7C1. What seemed to work for you?
• 7C2. What did not seem to work?
• 7C3. In what situations where you most successful?
• 7C4. What behaviours would you like to perform again?
• 7C5. What will you do differently the next time?

8-10 pages talking about 2 movies and how they relate to the topic utopia dystopia 

movie #1 brave new world (Aldous Huxley) 

movie #2 V for vendetta

READ THE FOLLOWING AND EXPLAIN YOUR OPINION. DO YOU AGREE OR DISAGREE AND WHY? (MIN. 125 WORDS):

Kellogg, A. (2016). The refugee crisis as seen from Davos. FoxNews.com. Retrieved from http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/01/24/refugee-crisis-as-seen-from-davos.html

“The refugee crisis as seen from Davos”

The topic of this article is refugees that are being flooded into France, American, England, Germany and other surrounding nations in Europe. The European Central Bank President Mario Draghi is trying to tell the nation the importance to not pre-judge the impact of the vast new migration to Europe (Kellogg, 2016). We have also heard from many different countries including our own nation’s states that refugees for American, Europe and other countries is a challenge, and an opportunity (Kellogg, 2016). This is a political issue, an economic issue, and social, and overcrowding issue, as in each country they have their down falls, there issues with financial concerns, so to add more person for the countries to take care of and look after is hard on the economy, the financial budgets, and it also is causing a bit of a controversial issue with the citizens as they are in fear for what has happened thus far in their lives with terrorist. So, to bring in person from a country or two that are not or where not allies of there before is a problem.

My perspective of this issue is that we are worried for the right reasons, no matter the country or nation. We have to worry about the issues with financial struggles, with crime rates increasing as there are more and more people being brought to countries that are not able to supply jobs for all their citizens, or housing for them either. We have to worry about the resources that are being drained. Here in the United States the refugees that are here now, are using up state and federal finances, they are taking up housing that could be used for other needy families and Veterans that are homeless. We have person who have come to this country who are using the states they are assigned to, they are using the resources for housing, they are being given housing vouchers to have reduced rents on apartments and homes, these lists are only open once per year and low income families sit on the lists for years and never move up to the top, and they are in need of the help, so they are not living on the streets, but once the refugees came to the state they were bumped down on the list, and the refugees where given the vouchers for their reduced rents to help them to survive here, I understand this as we don’t want to see them on the streets, but at the same time is fair to bump someone who has been on a housing voucher list for 5 years back down to the bottom to help those that just came here and didn’t have to wait or see the struggles? The larges issue with the refugees coming to the United States, Europe or any other country other than their home country, is that all resources are being exhausted to accommodate them, as other citizens are being pushed aside for others.