Macroeconomic Analysis Introduction

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Managerial Economics and Business Analysis Capstone

17 classificações

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Managerial Economics and Business Analysis Capstone

17 classificações

Curso 7 de 7 em Specialization Managerial Economics and Business Analysis

The capstone project involves an in-depth analysis of an actual business situation in which you will examine the global economic environment of a business. The final project will be a business plan that uses statistical tools and economic theory to create a comprehensive analysis of the microeconomic and macroeconomic environment in which the focal company operates. This course is part of the iMBA offered by the University of Illinois, a flexible, fully-accredited online MBA at an incredibly competitive price. For more information, please see the Resource page in this course and onlinemba.illinois.edu.

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Milestone 3: Macroeconomic Analysis

Your objective in this milestone is to conduct a brief macroeconomic analysis of the target country.

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Joseph A. Petry
Clinical Professor of Economics and Finance
Department of Economics

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Welcome back, so this is Milestone 3,

which is our macroeconomic analysis for a project.

In the macroeconomic analysis, basically, what you're trying to do is get a sense

for the big picture of the economic environment that's in place in the country

that you selected to see if, in fact, that environment is suitable for

the size of investment that your company is interested in making.

You want to do this including a number of graphs of the selected variables,

and we'll talk about some of the variables in just a second.

Those graphs should be very clear, easy to understand, and

make sure the data is current as well.

At a minimum, the variables that you should include

in this analysis would be the GDP growth rate, inflation rate,

unemployment rate, a basic indicator of interest rates.

There's a lot of interest rates in the country, but pick one or

two that's indicative of the general interest rate environment, and

finally the exchange rate.

You should also put some basic comments under each of these graphs so that

you're helping your Board of Directors become educated very quickly on the kind

of environment that they are potentially making a very large investment into.

So, for instance, I did the one country you won't select is the US, and

that's because you're a US-based company moving externally,

so I selected giving an example out of US.

A couple US economic indicators, the first one on the left you see is US GDP,

I've got it clearly labeled, Annual Percent Change from 2000-2015,

which happened to be the last full year that data was available.

It's pretty clear when you look at that graph what's going on,

I also make a brief comment underneath the graph to help illustrate that for

those that aren't familiar with the US economy.

On the right, we've got another indicator, in this case, I selected inflation.

Again, the same time horizon, very professional,

clearly labeled, easy to understand.

A few comments under there, including what's going on with monetary policy,

which is what the Fed comment pertains to, so those are things you might

kind of use as an example for that macroeconomic environment.

Now, if also giving you as I have in the past a rubric, grading rubric.

This is designed for you to understand before you start

what you should have when you finish, and so we've got a number of

criteria that we think are particularly important regarding the macro environment.

You should look over that in detail before you get started, so

you know what your product should look like at the end.

We look forward to seeing what kind of macroeconomic analysis you get done for

this project.

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