Instructions and guidelines for course paper The Assignment This course is intended to familiarize you with Managerial Economics

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Instructions and guidelines for course paper

The Assignment

This course is intended to familiarize you with Managerial Economics. The ultimate goal is for you to be able to understand and interpret what is going on in the contemporary world of Managerial Economics, both in the United Stated and around the world. The course paper is your opportunity to get some practice at applying what you have learned.

You are asked to write a 5-page paper analyzing a company and/or an industry of your choosing. You should attempt to write about it in light of what you have learned in class or read in your text. The paper will be due November 29 (Sunday). No late papers will be accepted. You must submit (upload) your paper MS Word format in Blackboard. If you do not submit (upload) your paper in the required MS Word format, so that SafeAssign can effortlessly produce the needed originality report, you will automatically get 0 points on the paper.

Paper Structure

Please structure your paper as follows:

a. Choose a main topic: which company and/or industry are you going to write about? Why are you interested in this specific topic? Why should the reader(s)be interested in it?

b. Explain the structure of the company/industry that you are analyzing. Is it local/American or global?

c. Discuss its current situation, and any notable moments (successes/failures) in its past development. Focus your analysis on economic indicators, and their development over time (e.g. revenues, losses, profits, market shares, economic performance indexes, etc.).

d. Evaluate the company and/or industry, and its future prospects. Is it concentrated, or competitive (using some concentration indexes covered in class)?

e. Conclude by discussing your opinion based on what you have learned during your research.

f. Provide a list of your references at the end of the paper, in an APA format. You should use at least 4-5references.A proper reference consists of: author(s), title of the article/book, year of publication, and venue of publication. A web-site alone is not a reference!

g. Include all graphs and tables needed to illustrate your research findings in an Appendix.

h. You are strongly encouraged to take advantage of the services of the Writing Center: http://www.govst.edu/Academics/Services_and_Resources/Writing_Center/Writing_Center_Services/Hit each of the above points, but stay on focus and within the page limit. Do not digress.

The paper should be 5 pages (excluding references and the Appendix), size 12 script, double spaced.

Your paper must be a unique and original piece of research for this class. You cannot re-use (even partially) any other paper that you officially submitted for any other class. You should by no means copy somebody else’s paper –either your classmate’s paper, or the papers that you use as a source of information. Copying violates the university’s honor policy and will be punished accordingly. All papers submitted will be scanned through SafeAssign (or any other similar system) to test for plagiarism. Any form of plagiarism will automatically result in an “F” grade on the paper.

Finding a topic (company and/or industry)

You can look for a topic anywhere. But the topic must be related to what we cover in class, and in your text. You might also try to look at the following(or similar)web-pages, suggested as optional readings:

The Economist : http://www.economist.com

The Wall Street Journal: http://www.online.wsj.com/public/us

TheWorld Bank: http://www.worldbank.org

The IMF: http://www.imf.org

Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development(OECD): http://www.oecd.org

United States Bureau of Labor Statistics: http://www.bls.gov

United States International Trade Commission: http://www.usitc.gov

World Trade Organization (WTO): http://www.wto.org

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development: http://www.ebrd.com/

Inter-American Development Bank: http://www.iadb.org/