Discussion Forum onMonopolies & OligopoliesFor this assignment, you must use detailed statistical data, researched information and financial or economic theories to support the arguments that you will present in your text.Research an issue related to Monopolies or Oligopolies which has negatively impacted the economy of a particular country or region of your choosing in the past or in the present.You should include all of the following in your text, but can choose to incorporate more information so as to provide a more complete response:Very briefly describe a Monopoly, Oligopoly, Monopoly industry or Oligopoly industry operating in the country or the region of your choice. You must use statistical data and factual information to address this question.Briefly describe the issue caused by that Monopoly, Oligopoly, Monopoly industry or Oligopoly industry in the country or region that you chose. You must integrate at least two economic concepts acquired in this class to explain how the Monopoly, Oligopoly, Monopoly industry or Oligopoly industry negatively impacted the country or region that you chose. You can use graphs or equations to relate the theory that you chose.Use the knowledge acquired in this class to make a normative assessment and propose a policy recommendation that you believe would help to mitigate the adverse impact(s) of the Monopoly, Oligopoly, Monopoly industry or Oligopoly industry on the country or region that you chose. (This last question will account for a significant portion of your Discussion Forum grade)While addressing your classmates,Treat your response to your classmates as if you were addressing the question. As such, you should do one or more of the following:Analyze your classmates’ posts.Add relevant information or statistical data to your classmates’ posts.Propose a useful counterargument to your classmates’ posts.Propose a relevant and alternate position or information.Also, please remember to be respectful.General InstructionsYou must integrate some economic theories learned in class and apply them to your analysis.You must state your interpretation of the information that you provided and then justify your interpretation using several arguments that you will need to explain.You must appropriately reference all of your sources using the APA or MLA guidelines.500 words at least, please try to provide charts

Consider the production model of chapter 4. As we discussed in class, it is a general equilibrium model. Please discuss in no more than 6 lines i) what general equilibrium means? and, ii) why do you think is important?Differences in the productivity parameter (A) across countries turns out to be very important to explain cross-country differences un GDP per capita. However, they are more important if you consider the Solow model than if you consider the production model of Chapter 4. Why is that the case? Explain in no more than 5 lines providing economic intuition.SECTION 1You are asked to make comparisons of two pairs of countries. The first pair is the Latin American countries of Chile and Argentina; the second pair is France and Germany. You are given the following information: the average saving rate in Argentina is 13.4 percent, in Chile it is 21.3 percent, in France it is 22 percent, and in Germany, 20.3 percent. Assuming the countries are identical in every other way, which country would the Solow model predict to have the higher per capita real GDP between Chile and Argentina and; France and Germany? However, you go to the data and find out the real per capita GDP in each of the countries are $16,500 (Argentina), $21,548 (Chile), $31,446 (France), and $33,181 (Germany). Please interpret your results of part a) in light if the new information given to you.SECTION 2As discussed in class, the experience of countries like South Korea or Singapore can be considered as economic miracles. They were relatively poor and then after a period of very rapid economic growth they joined the group of rich countries. Use the Solow growth model with its diagrams by changing one of its parameters to describe such an experience of transiting from being poor to rich by growing fast. Please justify the choice of the parameter you choose to change by using your economic intuition and what we discussed in class about the economic reforms that took place on such coun-tries.Attach

We care about foreign exchange and exchange rates for several reasons.First, purchasing goods and services produced by the labor force in another country generally requires first purchasing the other country’s currency. The buyer sells one’s own currency for the currency of the country with the buyer, or the MNC would like to transact. Second, MNCs care about the changes in exchange rate because a change in the exchange rate makes payables or receivables in domestic currency smaller or larger regarding their home currency.Lastly, you the investor care about FX and exchange rates if you have foreign assets in your portfolio. You want to buy currency low and sell high which means you would be interested in the direction and how much exchange rates change.In this assignment, explain the following in an essay:A brief summary of how FX markets operate, including the bid-ask spread, cross-exchange rate, and forward rate.Include at least one example of calculating the forward discount or premium using American term quotations. For simplicity, assume 30 days in each month and use the formula (where ¥ can be any currency, and N = 3 means a 3-month delivery and so days = 90, for example) below. What can you infer from your calculations?Use the prevailing spot rates in your writing and include a corresponding citation so that the calculations are reproducible using your data.MNCs use three major FX derivatives: forward, futures, and options. Explain why MNCs use them. Identify the purposes of FX derivatives and highlight the differences between them.Your submission should be at least four pages of analysis plus a reference page in Microsoft Word, APA formatted, and with correct grammar.