Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of beginning export operations in a foreign market. Evaluate the major differences between U.S and multinational operations that affect strategic management. What role does U.S. foreign relations impact the U.S. economy? Do businesses need foreign policies? Explain your answers.

Please post your thoughts and answers based on personal and/or professional experience, textbook and course materials, and academic research. Then read and reply to at least two of your peers’ posts that are different or the same from your response. State the points from their response, which you agree or disagree, as well as your reasons for agreeing or disagreeing.

The initial discussion post should be a 300-word count minimum and 100-word count minimum for peer responses.

Question 1-

Compare the following:

• A paperback book and an ebook

• A paper-based map and a smartphone map app

What are the main concepts and metaphors that have been used for each? (Think about the way time is conceptualized for each of them.) How do they differ? What aspects of the paper based artifact have informed the digital app? What is the new functionality? Are any aspects of the conceptual model confusing? What are the pros and cons?

Question 2 –

1. What is human computer interaction?

2. What is user-centered design?

3. Why are these disciplines important?

Words should be at least 100 words per question (300 words). Be sure to cite at least three sources (APA style) to support your answer.

Question 3 –

Observe two types of interaction and write a three page double spaced report on your observations (follow APA guidelines and syllabus formatting instructions). The report should adhere to the specifications in the expectations of the syllabus.

In a public area (Starbucks, college campus, house of worship, park, etc.) observe people interacting in-person (face to face). Notice their body language, their tone, etc.

Next, observe yourself interacting digitally with another human (Skype, email, chat, Facetime, etc.). Notice the body language and tone of you and the person you are interacting with.

Page one of your report should describe your observations of in-person interaction. Page two should describe your digital interaction. Page three should compare and contrast the two types of interactions. What is different? What is the same? Is something lost digitally? Is something gained digitally?

This report should describe real observations. This is not a theoretical assignment. No sources or citations are required provided you do not use quotes or paraphrases.

1.Let a firm’s marginal cost curve be MC = 5 + Q/100.

a. Find the profit maximizing quantity if this firm is a price taker and faces a price of P = $12.

b. Find the profit maximizing quantity if this firm faces a marginal revenue curve of

MR = 15 – Q/100

2.Let the market demand curve for a good be: P = 50 – Q/10.

a. Recall that if the market demand curve is linear, the marginal revenue curve is also linear, with the same price-axis intercept and a slope equal to twice the slope of the demand curve.Write out the marginal revenue curve for this market demand curve.

b. The elasticity of demand can be written as (1/slope)*(P/Q).Find the elasticity of demand for this market demand curve at the following quantities: Q = 50, 150, 250, 350, 450.

c. Verify that the demand curve is elastic at quantities where marginal revenue is positive and inelastic at quantities where marginal revenue is negative.

3.Let a perfectly competitive industry have 100 identical firms with a marginal cost curve given by MC = Q/2.

a. Construct the short run industry supply curve with 100 firms.

b. Let the market demand curve be Q = 4000 – 200*P.Find the short run equilibrium price, industry quantity, and firm quantity.

c. This is a constant cost industry with a cost of $8.Will firms be making profits or losses in the short run equilibrium in b?

d. Find the long run equilibrium price, industry quantity, firm quantity, number of firms, and profit for each firm.

4.Draw a pair of graphs to show the short run and long run equilibrium effects of each of the different events or shocks in a perfectly competitive industry.Assume the industry is in long run equilibrium before the event occurs.Use only one set of cost curves for the firm, like in my lecture notes.(Separate SR and LR cost curves just make the diagram too messy.)Draw the answer for each part of this question on separate diagrams.

a. An increase in demand in an increasing cost industry.

b. A decrease in demand in an increasing cost industry.

c. An increase in the average and marginal cost curves in a constant cost industry.

5.Draw a properly sized Edgeworth Box for each of the following initial endowments.

6.Draw an Edgeworth Box diagram with an initial endowment.Show the gains from trade relative to this endowment point assuming that each person has normal shaped indifference curves.Show the Pareto Efficient points that are within the region of gains from trade relative to the initial endowment.Make sure that your initial endowment point is not Pareto Efficient.