ECO 203

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1. Foreign Direct Investment
   
2. Imagine you are in charge of development for a developing country and were approached by a multinational corporation interested in locating in your country.
3. Identify some of the benefits and some of the costs to the host country from allowing a multinational corporation to locate in a country with a developing economy.  Discuss with your classmates if developmental assistance from world developmental agencies, such as the World Bank or the United Nations, would be preferable to private investment. 
4. Reference: Chapter 17, section 17.5: Help From The Private Sector: Multinationals.
5. Guided Response: Review several of your classmates’ posts and respond to at least two of them. In your reply, discuss how the concerns listed in their posts regarding private foreign investment could be alleviated through aide from world development agencies.  
6. Economies in Transition
   
   

   The movement in the direction of a market-based system with freely determined prices, competition, profits, private ownership, and other features of capitalism is not simple.  Discuss some of the challenges associated with an economy transitioning from socialism to capitalism.

   Reference: Chapter 20, section 20.1: World Economic Systems, and section 20.2: Transition to a Market System.

   Guided Response: Review several of your classmates’ posts.  Respond to at least two of your peers by discussing the benefits and the costs of privatization of an economy.  Pose questions that may assist your peers in extending their thinking.

FInal Paper
To complete the following final paper, go to this week's Final Paper link in the left navigation.

Expansionary Economic Policy

Prior to beginning the final assignment, review the following chapters:

Chapter 7: Classical Macroeconomics and the Keynesian Challenge
Chapter 9: Taxes, Government Spending, and Fiscal Policy
Chapter 12: Banking and The Federal Reserve System
Chapter 14: Monetary Policy In Theory And Practice

Focus of the Final Paper

In an effort to move the economy out of a recession, the federal government would engage in expansionary economic policies. Respond to the following points in your paper on the actions the government would take to address expansionary fiscal and monetary policies:

Expansionary Fiscal Policy:

Explain the actions the federal government would take while engaging in expansionary fiscal policy in terms of the following:

• The necessary change in taxes and government spending,
• The effect on aggregate demand, GDP, and employment.

Expansionary Monetary Policy:

The three tools the Federal Reserve Bank (The Fed) uses when conducting monetary policy are the required reserve ratio, the discount rate, and open market operations.

Explain the actions of the Fed in regard to the three tools.

• When the required reserve ratio is increased or decreased
• When the discount rate is increased or decreased
• Buying or selling government securities when conducting expansionary monetary policy
  
  

Explain how these actions would affect the money supply, interest rates, spending, aggregate demand, GDP, and employment.

Writing the Final Paper

The Final Paper:

1. Must be eight to ten double-spaced pages in length and formatted according to APA style as outlined in your approved styled guide.
2. Must include a title page that includes:
   1. Title of paper
   2. Student’s name
   3. Course name and number
   4. Instructor’s name
   5. Date submitted
3. Must include an introductory paragraph with a succinct thesis statement.
4. Must address the topic of the paper with critical thought.
5. Must conclude with a restatement of the thesis and a conclusion paragraph.
6. Must use at least four scholarly resources, including the textbook.   Two sources must come from the Ashford Library.
7. Must use APA style as outlined in your approved style guide to document all sources.
8. Must include, on the final page, a reference List that is completed according to APA style as outlined in your approved style guide.