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Essay Instructions: A 10-page

?My perspective on the global financial crisis?

incorporating book on the financial crisis crisis, published articles on the crisis, working papers on global financial crisis. Appendixes, exhibits and graphs are fine!

suggested readings for class were

READINGS:

Books, articles, working papers on the global financial crisis and proposals for financial regulatory reform
A. There are several popular books on the global financial crisis?each with the author?s own view of what happened. An overview of the following selected books will be
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provided in class, while student teams will provide an extensive review of these books (among others).
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J. Barth. The Rise and Fall of the US Mortgage and Credit Markets: A Comprehensive Analysis of the Market Meltdown
J. Campbell et al, The Squam Lake Report: Fixing the Financial System-listed separately, next section
D. Chorafas. Financial Boom and Gloom: The Credit and Banking Crisis of 2007- 2009 and Beyond
J. Foster & F. Magdoff. The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences
H. Kaufman. The Road to Financial Reformation: Warnings, Consequences, Reforms
P. Krugman. The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008
NYU Stern School of Business. Restoring Financial Stability: How to Repair a Failed System
S. Patterson. The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It
R.G. Rajan. Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy
C. Reinhart & K. Rogoff. This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
R. Schiller. The Subprime Solution: How Today's Global Financial Crisis Happened and What to Do about it
G. Soros.The Crash of 2008 and What it Means: The New Paradigm for Financial Markets
J. Stiglitz. Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy
Selected chapters from Keynes, Knight, etc.
B. The
Duffie, Diamond, French, Mishkin, Rajan, Schiller, et al
Squam Lake Report: Fixing the Financial System, Baily, Campbell, Cochrane,
C. Insights into the Global Financial Crisis, Financial Analysts Journal (FAJ) and Research Foundation of the CFA Institute. A collection of 17 articles by leading financial experts-downloadable at:

http://www.cfapubs.org/toc/rf/2009/2009/5

D. Selected articles and working papers from university economics and finance departments: TBA
E. Proposals for Financial Regulatory Reform:
? US Treasury Department
? US Senate Banking Committee
? European Union
? World Bank
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? International Monetary Fund (IMF)
? Committee on Capital Markets Reform (COMR)

Essay Instructions: Comment: The introduction in the final draft should give a summary of your conclusions after stating your working hypothesis ? which I take it from the last item is that perhaps the strong euro has slowed down export growth and economic expansion for both Spain and Portugal. In general, you seem to lump the two countries together, but I think there are interesting differences in how they have responded to the EU and the euro. Spain, in particular, has had a more restrictive monetary policy before the euro, so the change in monetary policy has not been such a shock to it as it has for Portugal, which ran into difficulties with the Stability and Growth Pact.
Further, Spain has found some interesting investment opportunities in Latin American, especially in the banking sector, which should be analyzed in contrast with Portugal. I like focusing on the changed pattern of trade ? find the Direction of Trade statistics from either eurostat or the OECD or the IMF (I prefer the OECD in general as more complete than eurostat and less confusing than IMF presentations, but you decide which you like best for this paper).

Outline


I. Introduction

A. Overview of Spain and Portugal?s economic history in the last 50 years.
B. Decision to join the European Union
C. Expectations for the futures of each country.

II. Changes in general performance and structural economy of Spain and Portugal prior to and
after joining the EU.

A. Annual Growth Rate before EU and since the EU
B. Change in structure of the economy
D. Export GDP Ratio and Import GDP Ratio
E. Trade within the EU and outside the EU
1. The structure of both countries? exports and imports (commodity structure and
geographical structure).
a. The effects of importing too much from outside the EU. Geographic
distribution of Exports (where do they go)
b. The effects that occur when exporting to U.S and dollar-tied economies
2. In general all of Europe is having a tougher time exporting.

III. The impact the Euros appreciation has had on both economies

A. Appreciation of Euro makes imports of Spain and Portugal from outside cheaper and exports less competitive.
B. Investment Flows
1. Effects on Foreign Direct Investment
a. Two types of investments; receipts and non-official (private)
b. How much is coming from within and outside the EU.

IV. Expectations for the Future
A. Economies more European oriented.
B. Given that both countries have cheaper labor maybe it would be better for
multinational corporations to invest more in them.
C. The richer economies of the EU might want to investment more outside of the EU.
a. Assets in the U.S. are cheaper and might be more attractive than investing in Spain and Portugal.

VIII. Conclusion


Sources

As for sources here are a few sources I found and was hoping to use. One thing that is a requirement for the paper is to use an article from the "Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development" website.

Baer, Werner & Leite, Antonio (2003). The economy of Portugal within the European Union: 1990-2002. The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 738-752.

Joumard, Isabelle (2002). Tax Systems in European Union Countries. OECD Economic Studies, 34, 92-145.

Martin, Carmela & Herce, Jose & Rivero, Simon & Velazquez, Francisco (2002). European Union Enlargement Effects on the Spanish economy. Economic Studies Series, 27, 21-64.

Neal, Larry & Iglesia-Garcia, Maria (2003). The economy of Spain without & within the EU: 1945-2002. The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 755-772.

Portugal Overview (2003). Portugal Offer. Retrieved February 9, 2005, from http://www.portugaloffer.com/about_us/portugal.html.

Essay Instructions: This essay should deal with a topic related to the class and related to a reading, a newspaper article or any other contemporary topic related to the class.
* About this class
This course is an introduction to natural resource economics and management, with special emphasis on forest, wildland resources, urban- rural interface, and economic instruments for conservation. Course topics include: natural resource markets, non-market valuation of environmental costs and benefits, investment & decision analysis, taxation of land, regional economics, and management models. Specific topics covered by the class are climate change, recreation, forest economics, water and wildlife management. Particular methods of analysis used in the class are Linear Programming (LP), Linear Regression, Cost-Benefit analysis (CB) and input-output (I-O) among others.

*Topics and Reading
Microeconomics review:
Leeds, Michael A.; von Allmen, Peter, and Schiming, Richard C. “Market Failure: Public Goods and Externalities” in “Economics”. Pearson Addison Wesley, pp. 435-453. 2006.
Perloff, Jeffrey M. “Consumer Choice” in “Microeconomics”. Pearson, Addison Wesley, pp. 74-102. 2007.
Investment Analysis
Buongiorno, J. and J.K. Gilless. 2003. Decision methods for forest resource management. Academic Press, San Diego. 439 p. (Read Chapter 18, “Analysis of forest resource investments”)
Bettinger, Pete; Boston, Kevin; Siry, Jacek P.; Grebner, Donald L. “Management of Forests and Other Natural Resources” in “Forest Management and Planning”. Elsevier, pp. 2-13. 2009
Klemperer, W.D. 1996. Forest resource economics and finance. McGraw-Hill, New York. 551 pages. (Chapter 4, “The forest as capital”, pages 101-133)
Forestry Investments
Klemperer, W.D. 1996. Forest resource economics and finance. McGraw-Hill, New York. 551 pages. (Read Chapter 7, “Economics of forestland use and even-aged rotations”, pages 202-238)
Klemperer, W.D. 1996. Forest resource economics and finance. McGraw-Hill, New York. 551 pages. (Read Chapter 8, “Optimal timber stocking”, pages 239-265)
Taxation
Klemperer, W.D. 1996. Forest resource economics and finance. McGraw-Hill, New York. 551 pages. (Read Chapter 9, “Forest taxation”, pages 266-301)
Valuation
Davis, L.S. et al. 2001. Forest Management. McGraw-Hill, New York. 804 pages. (Read Chapter 8, “Principles and applications in forest valuation”, pages 395-462)
Markets-Forecasting: Timber Markets
Klemperer, W.D. 1996. Forest resource economics and finance. McGraw-Hill, New York. 551 pages. (Read Chapter 12, “Timber supply and demand”, pages 362-394)
Econometric Models
Buongiorno, J. and J.K. Gilless. 2003. Decision methods for forest resource management. Academic Press, San Diego. 439 p. (Read Chapter 19, “Econometric analysis and forecasting of forest product markets”)
Regional Economics
Loomis, J.B. 2002. Integrated Public Lands Management. Columbia, New York. 474 pages. (Read Chapter 7, “Regional economic analysis and input-output models”, pages 171-191)
Bureau of Business and Economic Research. “The Regional Economy”.
Forest management models
Buongiorno, J. and J.K. Gilless. 2003. Decision methods for forest resource management. Academic Press, San Diego. 439 p. (Read Chapter 1, “Introduction”, Chapter 2, “Principles of linear programming: Formulations”, Chapter 3, “Principles of linear programming: Solutions”, Chapter 4 “Even-aged management: A first model”)
Biodiversity/Protected Areas
United Nations Environmental Programme. “Global Biodiversity Assessment”. Chapter 12. 2001.
Recreation
Douglas, R.W. 1993. Forest Recreation. Waveland, Prospect Heights. 373 pages. (Read Chapter 5, “Financing forest recreation”, pages 99-114)
Emerton, Lucy; Bishop, Joshua and Thomas, Lee. "Sustainable Financing of Protected Areas: Global Review of Challenges and Options." 2006, pp. 97. Read Chapter 7.
Multiple Use
Loomis, J.B. 2002. Integrated Public Lands Management. Columbia, New York. 474 pages. (Read Chapter 8, “Principles and applications of multiple-use management”, pages 192- 220)
Water
Young, Robert. “The Economic Value of Water: Concepts and Methods”. Resources for the Future. Washington D.C. 357 pages. (Read Chapters 1 and 2).
Economic Valuation
Stevens, Thomas. “Can Stated Preference Valuations Help Improve Environmental Decision Making?” Choices. 2005. pp. 189-193
Shaw, Douglas W. “The road less traveled: Revealed Preferences and using the Travel Cost Method to value environmental changes” Choices. 3rd Quarter. 2005.
Hanley, Nick; Shogren, Jason F. and White, Ben. “Valuing the environment and Natural Resources” in “Introduction to Environmental Economics”. Oxford University Press, pp. 34-67. 2001.

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Essay Instructions: Journal article reviews relating to labor economics topics

The journal article reviews consist of formal reviews of journal articles relating to labor economics topics.

The following is the list of Approved Journals

Approved Journals
Brookings papers on economic activity
Business Economics
Economic inquiry
Economic journal (London, England)
Industrial and Labor Relations Review
International economic review
Journal of economic issues
Journal of economic literature
Journal of Economics and Business
Labor Law Journal
Review of Financial Economics
Southern economic journal
The American Economic Review
The American economic review
The Journal of economic perspectives
The Journal of Industrial Economics
The Journal of Law and Economics
The Quarterly Journal of Economics
The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance
The Quartile Review of Economics and Business
The Review of Economics and Statistics
Western Economic Journal

Please choose one article about labor economics topics in those Approved Journals and write an article reviews. The reviews must include 4 parts.

1. Objective, purpose about that Journals article. What does that article says.

2. What theory, principles are including in that Journals article. Explain the article with labor economics theory or principles in textbook (McConnell, Brue, and Macpherson, Contemporary Labor Economics, Seventh Edition, Irwin/McGraw-Hill, 2006 ISBN: 0).

3. Analyzing the data in that Journals article. Find out the source of the data. Explain the data, how the author used that data and relative theory or principles
4. Conclusion. Your opinion about this article. What you can study from this article.

please give me the URL address or copy of the origin Journal article