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SCENARIOSPick 2 of the following 4 Questions and respond as directed

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SCENARIOSPick 2 of the following 4 Questions and respond as directed.Question 1:REQUIRED:

Cap and Trade programs have been used successfully to incentivize firms to meet pollution standards in the least costly ways.

A.     What are three key features necessary for an emissions Cap and Trade program to work?

B.     What are the potential downsides to this policy alternative?

 

 

Question 2:

 

You have just been hired into the office of the Minister of International Trade for Canada. The Minister is going to meet with the Ambassador to Canada from Japan in a few days. You have been asked to make a memo to the Minister outlining the gains from international trade.

Thankfully, you have just taken this course and you have a solid handle on the reasons for Trade.

 

REQUIRED: Prepare the outline for the memo to the minister. The format is not graded.

 

 

Question 3:

 

You are the CEO of a wood products company in BC. The US is proposing increasing Tariffs again. You just read chapter 31 of the Miller text and you are preparing a letter to go to the BC Minister of Forests to present your view that Tariffs are highly Pareto Inefficient for all.

REQUIRED: Use the argument from Chapter 31 as the basis for your letter to the Minister. Letter form is not graded. Keep it to 2 or three paragraphs.

 

 

Question 4:

 

Here is an excerpt from a recent news story about Facebook as a Monopoly published by the Washington Post.

Facebook has spent years integrating Instagram and WhatsApp: weaving their ad systems, user profiles, databases, and other technology with Facebook. What to the public appear as distinct products are one giant social network on the back end.

 

Today, those technical and strategic decisions — part of chief executive Mark Zuckerberg's vision of seamless communication across platforms — add enormous complexity to the possibility of breaking up Facebook's conglomerate of apps,

as antitrust lawsuits from 48 U.S. states and territories and the federal government aim to do.

 

REQUIRED: You have set up a Government Policy Consulting practice. The Competition Bureau of Canada is your first client. They ask you for advice on the apparent Monopoly Facebook has. You need to provide a reply in two paragraphs for the Bureau Chief. Your task is to provide advice on how should they (The Competition Bureau) should think about Facebook as a Monopoly and whether it should be broken up or not.