Macro & Microeconomics Essays

The demand for the former results the production of the second. For example, if coal is demanded that leads to a derived demand of mining, as coal must be mined for coal to be consumed. As the demand for coal increases, so does its price and the increase in price leads to a higher demand for the resources involved in mining coal.

This paper primarily focuses on the identification of the main reasons behind economic recession. It also tries to suggest effective sets of policies, that should be put into place by the governing bodies to address economic challenges. Among the factors leading to the crisis were low interest rates, increased supply of money and high cost of oil.

According to the research findings, it can, therefore, be said that currently donor countries have withheld financial funding for Zimbabwe amid its financial crisis. If fact, the United States of America and Britain who were major donors have so far withdrawn financial aids unless proper economic and political reforms are fixed.

A bad political environment such as political instability, on the other hand, is a bad macroeconomic environment for business. We can take the recent issue about Egypt’s coup’d etat where the military took over the government and the people protesting it. News of military crackdowns is everywhere and conflict happens every day.

The Great Depression started around August 2007 after the central banks gave their money to the interbank lending market hence resulting in a great decline in liquidity. The lending by the central banks happened after there was a blockage to the withdrawal of money from the hedge funds by the BNP Paribas.

Social insurance is a constitutional provision, based on the pragmatic premise that in democratic, capitalist societies, individuals and families may become vulnerable to economic insecurity owing to an array of unavoidable human circumstances like aging, retirement, unemployment, physical disability, loss of the earning member of the family, etc.

According to the paper, during the observed period, China has pulled ahead of India, in terms of economic prosperity and in terms of securing the well-being of people. Parallel with India securing its independence in 1940’s, China had achieved high levels of economic growth sixty years from the rise to power of present Chinese socialist government.

The researcher of the given essay explains whether the allocative and productivity efficiency can be achieved in both markets (perfect competition and monopoly). In the light of these, market structure is defined as a framework in which a firm chooses to enter the market.

In this video, the author explains what a bubble is, what causes a bubble to burst and the effects of bubbles bursting. After watching the video, several things have been learnt. A bubble is simply a situation created when prices of assets are based on views and opinions of market players. As a result, the asset price inflation increases.

According to the report, Gross Domestic Product, the GDP based on the provided income data is $761.6 billion. The GDP less depreciation is the Net domestic product (NDP). According to Arnold (2010), NDP refers to the net monetary value of goods and services attributed to property and labour in specified period in an economy.

As the report declares Apple Inc is a publicly traded company of U.S. It is an American multinational company that designs, sells and manufactures different consumer electronic goods and services. The company was founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs, Ronald Wayne and Steve Wozniak. This firm got recognized as Apple Inc in 1977. 

In the paper the author is mostly concerned about the macroeconomic objectives of the American economy and whether these have been fulfilled in the last two years or not. Here, the author has summarized the major macroeconomic objectives of the US economy. The economic condition of the country is good enough.

The internet may be used to build strong communism by allowing people to communicate and share information around the globe. The internet can be used as a platform for communists and workers to unite and form a communist revolution against the exploitative tenets of capitalism. The internet enhances socialism by allowing various members of society to interact.

In 2015 the top four airline companies held a market share of more than 68.8%. In comparison with 2010, the market share of the top for airlines increased by 5.5%. One of the primary reasons for the increase in consolidation. A good example for consolidation is the merger between US Airways and American Airlines.

Without doubt, the rise of NGOs after the end of the Cold War era was met with high approval since most of the charity societies sought to help failing economies attain stability.

According to the research findings, the economy of Ireland has shifted its focus from being an agricultural economy to a more knowledge-based economy. Ireland is a globalized economy with the second largest GDP in the EU. Canada too has developed in terms of its GDP growth rate but there are wide differences between the two economies.

According to the report the high fuel prices have slowed the pace of global economy, influencing the commodities prices, however the upward drift of interest rates will ease the economic growth in many countries. US and China being the engines of global economy are complementing each other in several areas and boosting the world economy in many areas.

According to the paper, despite setbacks to a few countries for obvious reasons, most developing countries have benefited from the emergence of multinational companies. These companies enjoys good benefits through low production costs and competitive pricing, while the receiving country obtain revenue, and employment opportunities for its people.

According to the report the short term possibilities will include all input levels which are feasible based upon one restricting factor which is the time period and will be able to produce a particular level of output. This is represented as an isoquant which shows all the various input bundles that may be combined in order to produce one particular level of output.

The paper provides an analytical comparison of 12 countries for ten financial years. The paper will provide an insight into the various investment options of countries and the individual investor will be benefited to the core from the article in comparing the various countries and arriving at an investment decision on a country basis.

Main objective of any business is profit making which it derives by making its products and services available to people. Hence, the core business strategy of any business heavily relies on the fact that it products and services meet the needs and requirements of the people at large. Competitive pricing and strong market position are major business compulsions that are need driven and specially target the vulnerable segment of society who are more prone to buy their products and services.

The researcher of this descriptive essay mostly focuses on the discussion of the topic of the impact of foreign institutional investment on banks performance and analyzing the issue of indian banking sector. He analyses the significant expansion of foreign institutional investment across India as well.

According to the report a business cycle is the measure of economy-wide economic activity over several months or years and is calculated through the fluctuations in the production and incomes generated within the economy over that period of time. The economy’s output of goods and services is traditionally divided into four components.

It has been a matter of debate if the concept of perfect competition is valid or not. Criticizers believe that markets are always competitive to some extent but mostly they are under such a competition that they must be called as imperfectly competitive.  

r hand, it is argued that trade liberalization can lead a country into less productive and dynamic sectors which can adversely affect growth and hence increase the poverty(Rodriguez and Rodrick,2001). However, theoretically it remains unsettled and remains an empirical

As shown in the paper, apart from the influence of government actions on social housing, Social Housing programs are also governed by several external factors. The summation of the effects of such factors and the policy decisions taken by the government gives shape to the features, aims and objectives of Social Housing programs for a country.

Every business organizations engaged in transformation of inputs into finished products incurs certain specific costs. Costs of producing a commodity is influenced by the cost of technology used, resources applied, as well as the costs of inputs employed in the production process, and are inevitable and usually included within commodity prices.

The academic definitions of inflation, disinflation, and deflation will strengthen the reader’s understanding before providing the complex details of each of the concepts and applications. The final section has presented conclusions and recommendations to the economists in terms of how the inflation, disinflation, as well as deflation can be controlled.

This research paper includes analysis of previous research findings of authors and practitioners, government survey results on different parameters such as wage rates, interest rates, unemployment rates and growth trends etc. The methodology section provides details about how the research is conducted.

The author provides a display of the trend of the percentage each value contributes over time or ordered categories. GDP is not a good measure because it does not take into account the specific distribution of the incomes to the hands of individuals. They could only be going to few hands hence it does not measure the general welfare of the people.

For several decades, a debate has been raging in development economics on the relative virtues of the free market as opposed to state intervention. With the help of analytical models of a market economy, the interventionists have demonstrated what they have considered as serious instances of market failures. That is to mean, the inability of a market economy to reach certain desirable outcomes in resource use.

This paper emphasizes the growing role of the labor market in creating different economic environment in the U.S and China. The labor market deals with the workers of the country who agrees to sell their working hours for a fixed period of time to an employer. Labors are considered as the factor which can be exploited in the market.

All workers have the job and can work as many hours as they can and receive the wages according to their productivity. When the economy is at full employment, the unemployment rate is not at zero. This is because full employment means everybody has a job hence the employment rate is 100%. Full employment is often considered an ideal type of work.

The optimum profit maximisation level in the isoquant-isocost graph is point L4, which is 50,000 capitals, and 96 labourers.

Slovenia, a member of OECD experienced a serious decline in its economic growth and unemployment followed by fiscal austerity programs undertaken by its government to recover from the crisis of 2008. Such steps were taken in view of the outstanding debt burden, excessive credit growth and low risk assessment in the economy.

There has been a consistent mutual interaction between the developing and developed countries in the area of global trade. Additionally, the technological exchange between countries has assisted towards the remarkable prosperity of the global economy. Notably, most countries on the globe have registered a significant growth in their economy.

This paper talks about Inflation and Economies of Scale as two major issues in the Global Economics. Inflation leads to a decline in purchasing power of a nation due to reduction in value for money. There are various causes of inflation.The effect of scaling is the reduction of the long run average expenditures over a range of output.

This essay mainly focuses on assessment of economic situation in different sectors of American economy and evaluation of the overall state of the economy as well. The chief contributors of the GDP slight increase in 2012 included manufacturers of durable goods, information service providers as well as the sectors dealing with technological advances

The paper analysis is concentrated on the economic development of Germany. German economy marks itself as a social market economy as the government undertakes a wide array of social services. As German economy is highly export oriented it advocated for European economic integration. German commercial policies have been highly centred towards union.

Apparently, the housing bubble and it's after-effects emanated from the Housing and Urban Development Department along with its Federal Housing Administration, Federal Reserve-created market distortions, and the government backing of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Americans went through a severe housing crisis and resultant recession in the years 2008 and 2009.

This essay discovers the relationship between recession in the UK and fashion industry. The market and the economy were moving at a good pace and suddenly it saw the decline. And the speed at which it declined was never expected. The turmoil was felt across all industries. The US economy was the worst hit, with its subprime market.

The consumer price index is a measure of the average prices which a consumer has to pay for basic elements which are required by a household. Increasing consumer price index levels show the influence and impact of inflationary trends in the economy which may convince people to save more and economize when they can.

This essay focuses on the evaluation of the relative effectiveness of the governmental policies of ensuring economic growth in China and India for the period from 1950s to 2010s. An inference, retrieved from the history, suggests that the Chinese government has been more effective than Indian one in the promotion of the development of the economy.

It is not worthwhile to increase the price of the good and services when a company is asked upon to check on social health and responsibility. It is a way of irresponsibility and cannot be counteracted by an increase in prices.

The above percentage increase represents the how the cost of living is affected by changes in CPI. Thus, changes in the consumer price index are used to assess changes associated with the cost of living as well as economic

In this paper the countries under examination are divided into three categories: former Soviet Union (FSU) countries, Central European and the Balkan countries. Each group had faced different economic challenges, as some of them were an active members of the Soviet Union, while others were under a different level of influence from the Union.

The theory of allocational efficiency is greatly used for measuring the capacity of the financial markets in allocating the resources to those alternatives that will bring maximum yield. A situation that is efficient in terms of allocation of resources can be defined as the best possible attainment of a particular objective (Hasenpusch, 2009).

Additionally, the region has to do away with distortions that bar inter-regional trade and investments for a successful economic integration to occur. The paper also maintains that there should be regional agreements on policy guidelines that guarantee economic and political stability.

This essay explores the country’s foreign trade and GDP, monetary system, exchange rate policy, foreign policy and the reform process that began two decades ago put the country into a fast pace of economic growth. These macroeconomic measures helped to become one of the leading economies of the world in a decade or so.

In a related news in Redmond, Washington, Nov 6, 2002, it stated that although the US investment banks have been hit by mergers and consolidations due to the stock market downturn, the long period of low interest rates have assisted the commercial banks to more than recover the credit losses and generate record earnings according to Federal deposit insurance corporation in 2002.