Category: Micro Economics

The paper will be about one of the following companies: Amazon, Boeing, Costco,

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The paper will be about one of the following companies: Amazon, Boeing, Costco, Facebook, Gillette, Hachette, J.C. Penney, McDonalds, Priceline, Schick, Virgin Atlantic, Wal-Mart.
First choose one of the companies. I chose Amazon and Boeing. Please keep topic on these two companies.
Second choose one of the following research questions: I chose question #1
1.What are the main characteristics of the business model of the company of your choice?
2.What are the main characteristics of the market structure of the industry of the company of your choice?
The paper will be graded based on
Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling (20%)
Clarity of objective (20 %)
Analysis (40 %)
Conclusion based on Analysis (20%)
Please make sure to provide cited sources if used. If you are having difficulties, please let me know.

The Assignment must be submitted on Blackboard (WORD format only) via the alloca

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The Assignment must be submitted on Blackboard (WORD format only) via the allocated folder.
The due date for Assignment 1 is 7/10/2022.
Assignments submitted through email will not be accepted.
Students are advised to make their work clear and well-presented, marks may be reduced for poor presentation. This includes filling in your information on the cover page.
Students must mention the question number clearly in their answers.
Late submissions will NOT be accepted.
Avoid plagiarism, the work should be in your own words, copying from students or other resources without proper referencing will result in ZERO marks. No exceptions.
All answers must be typed using Times New Roman (size 12, double-spaced) font. No pictures containing text will be accepted and will be considered plagiarism).
Submissions without this cover page will NOT be accepted.
Assignment 1 Questions: Week 1, 2 & 3
Q1: Define price ceiling and price floor and give an example of each. Which leads to a shortage? Which leads to a surplus? Why? [2.5 Marks]
Q2: Export or Import, what is the option available for a nation if it has a comparative advantage in the production of agricultural produce over the other country? Explain. Why do a group of economists favor the policies that restrict imports? (Minimum 500 words). [2.5 Marks]
Q3: Pick any two principles of economics from Chapter 1 and explain each with an example. [2.5 Marks]
Q4: Take an example of a two-goods economy and explain the concept of opportunity cost with the help of the Production possibility curve (PPC). Also, draw a PPC and explain why any combination outside the PPC is not possible. [2.5 Marks]

Answer:

Note: The video has Closed Captioning. To activate it, start the video, mouse o

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Note: The video has Closed Captioning. To activate it, start the video, mouse over the bottom of the video and click on the CC icon, then select from the menu.
This week, we shall look at Monopolistic Competition. This is where you, as a consumer, spend most of your time. In Monopolistic Competition, many companies are selling similar but not identical products. Put differently, the goods are close but not perfect substitutes.
Because of the relative ease of substitution, companies often compete by advertising, services (for stores), brand names, brand loyalty, and product differentiation more than by price. Thus, prices of competing products tend to be close but not identical as they are in Perfect Competition.
Since this market is where you – as a consumer – spend most of your time and a lot of your money, this week, you will look at this market in action in your daily life. When you go shopping this week, please pay close attention to product prices and what information they tell you about how the products compete.
A grocery store is a good example. Look at the soda aisle and view the prices and the product locations on the shelves, which products are close substitutes, sufficiently differentiated that they have brand loyalty (i.e., a higher price), etc. Do the same with canned vegetables. Or undertake the same observational experiment in another store you regularly frequent.
Assignment Summary:
Watch the video above, and under the Week 4 Videos, watch all videos.
Then go to a store, as discussed above, and observe. Observation is a well-established method of real-world research. It will probably be easier and perhaps more informative if you pick on one product line to observe and observe by brand name. In particular, look for: product prices,
product packaging (design, colors, logos, etc.); and,
product shelve placement relative to other similar products.
Based on what you observe can you identify the following: Which products/brand names compete most closely with each other? Are they placed close to each other on the shelves or far apart?
Which products/brand names are aimed at cost-conscious consumers? Where are these on the store shelves for grocery stores?
Which are aimed at higher-end consumers? Where are these on the store shelves for grocery stores?
Which products/brand names have a narrower market and command brand loyalty? This one could be tricky to figure out.
Share what you find with the class on the discussion board. What do you think you have learned from this activity?
What have you learned about monopolistic competition?
Post your views to the discussion board and refer to at least two different “key concepts” from this week’s Chapters. Your illustration of concepts MUST include an explanation of why you think they are relevant to the week’s topic using specific information from the articles, videos, and other research you may have done, and their names and definitions must be typed with CAPITAL LETTERS to facilitate credit.
You are required to post your main post and respond to your instructor and at least one peer to make a minimum of three posts totaling at least 500 words. Failure to meet these minimum posting requirements results in point deductions.
Include a word count on each post. All of your posts should sum to a minimum of 500 words. Each post submitted should be between 150 and 250 words.
Please review Plagiarism Powerpoints ( PLAGIARISM.ppt PLAGIARISM.ppt – Alternative Formats ) and provide references (APA.ppt), including URLs where appropriate, to all works you cite.

Rubric for Microeconomics discussion. Professor Lopez.
Levels of Achievement
Criteria
Poor work
Partial work
Good work
Minimum participation requirement
(50 points)
No work submitted or just one post and/or no more than 167 words. Work is submitted late.
(10 points)
Two posts submitted and/or less than 500 words total. Three posts may be submitted but very late during the week (last day and late).
(30 points)
At least three posts and 500 words are submitted during three different days
(50 points)
Main questions of assignment
(20 points)
Opinion submitted but the main question(s) of assignment is (are) not addressed.
(4 points)
Opinion submitted, and main question is partially addressed
(12 points)
Opinion submitted, and questions of assignment are properly addressed
(20 points)
Response to instructor
(10 points)
No response to instructor comments/questions
(0 points)
Partial responses to questions from the instructor, or further and necessary clarifications are not provided.
(5 points)
Proper responses to questions from the instructor
(10 points)
Key-concept illustration
(20 points)
No key concepts are named, defined, and explained how they may relate to the article/topic.
(0 points)
Only one key concept identified or partial illustration of at least two key concepts.
(10 points)
Two key concepts are properly named and defined, and then explained how they may relate to assignment.
(20 points)
Now click the “Week 4 DISCUSSION” title above to go to the discussion forum. You are required to start a new thread. Click on the Create Thread button at the top. You can also respond to an existing post by clicking the Respond button at the bottom of the post.
This assignment closes at the end of the week. No exceptions.

Requirement: In this project, you are required to evaluate one of the websites

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Requirement:
In this project, you are required to evaluate one of the websites below based on what you learn from this course and your perspective. The evaluation will cover the different aspects of E-commerce such as business idea, website design, marketing, security … etc.
You will need to analyze the business and provide suggestions to improve the current business situation.
Current e-commerce businesses: (choose one)
https://gathern.co
https://tamara.co
https://www.sary.com

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https://www.nejree.com
https://eyewa.com
https://floward.com
https://alhabibshop.com
https://aynma.com
https://almatar.com
https://qasralawani.com
https://www.orangebedbath.com
https://www.sivvi.com
https://wadi-store.com
https://thoubi.net
The following questions require critical thinking to be answered successfully. The answers to these questions will drive the ways of improvement of the current e-commerce business.
Know the business (7 marks) Each poin worth 0.7 mark
Explain the design of the system (4 marks)
What is the business?
What is the idea?
What are the type of products and/or services provided?
Where is the money?
(Introduce the e-commerce business you have chosen).
(Provide an overview of the business idea & The visioning process).
(Explain the products and services does the online store provide such as customer service, exchange and return, delivery, and payment options).
4.Explain the business statement, business vision and business objective.
(Explain the company’s business model and the revenue model. Give a general idea of how the business generates revenues)
6.Who and where is the target audience?
(Explain demographics, lifestyle, consumption patterns, etc.).
7.Characterize the marketplace
(Research the market and give an idea about the size, growth, demographics, structure, competition).
8.Describe the content of the business website
9.Conduct a SWOT analysis for the business
(Provide 3 points each)
10.Develop an e-commerce presence map.
(For example: website, email … etc. What activities does the company use these platforms for? (E.g., marketing, customer service, news…etc.).

Explain in detail the design of the system (business objectives, system functionality, information provided)
Business Objective
System Functionality
Information provided

Ex: Display goods
Digital Catalog
Dynamic text and graphics catalog

What can be improved or added into the system design? Explain the current business e-commerce features (2 mark)
Explain the business e-commerce process (2 marks)
What are the current website features? And what types of these features can be annoying to customers? Provide pictures.
(What can you do to improve the current features on the website?)

Explain in detail all the steps from the time user enters the website until the final user buys a product.
(What can be improved in the process?)

dissusion question . four different types of industries are discussed: perfect c

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dissusion question . four different types of industries are discussed: perfect competition, monopolies, monopolistic competition, and oligopolies. Please choose an example of a firm in each of the four categories of which you have personally been a customer. Explain (Minimum of 100 words for each type of industry) how each firm fits into the definition of perfect competition, monopoly, monopolistic competition and oligopoly, and how you believe the type of industry affects the pricing of the products they sell.
Finally, for each type of industry, discuss whether or not, in your opinion, if/how government regulation or government ownership would be beneficial/detrimental in all of the four industries you described.
Be very thorough and in-depth on the answers given to all statements/questions.
and the doc is below