BUS313_001 ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL ENVIRONMENT OF

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BUS313_001

ECONOMIC AND

FINANCIAL ENVIRONMENT

OF GLOBAL BUSINESS

General

Introduction

Theory vs Reality

A good theory should predict reality; Exactly?

Q a b c d e f g

Points a to e =>

Path predicted good theory

. by

“good” theory.

Points e to g =>

Bad theory.

Points e to f =>?

Points f to g =>?

e:f

≠ f:g

Time = Minutes, Weeks,

Decades, Centuries.

NEW TERMS & CONCEPTS

Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

Gross National Product (GNP)

Microeconomics/Macroeconomics

International Economics

Exports/Imports

Gross & Net

Rational

Markets

Two Key Assumptions

1. Economic agents (firms, consumers, workers) are rational.

2. The economy can best be understood as a set of markets (goods and services, labor, money, financial assets) in which prices adjust to equate supply and demand.

GNP, GDP, etc.

What is gross about gross domestic product?

Why domestic and not national?

If there is a gross, is there a net?

GNP = Gross National Product

US GNP: total final output produced by US nationals no matter where they are located.

Included: Value added by Illinoisans working in India, Indonesia and Indiana.

Excluded: Value added by Iranians, Iraqis or

Israelis working in Idaho.

GDP = Gross Domestic Product

US GDP: Total final output of Americans,

Albanians and Saudi Arabians working within the borders of the 50 States, Guam, Puerto

Rico and other US possessions.

Included: Value added by Honda in USA.

Excluded: Value added by Motorola in Japan.

GDP vs GNP

GDP: Produced at home by anybody’s plant, but employs domestic labor.

GDP: More closely under the control & influence of governments and more readily taxed.

GNP: Borderless, produced anywhere by home owned plants using the nation’s capital stock but often foreign labor.

G

O

O

D

S

M

A

D

E

B

Y

Income

From

HOME

OWNED

FIRMS

GOODS MADE IN

REST

OF

WORLD

OWNED

FIRMS

HOME REST OF

COUNTRY WORLD

A

+ c +

= =

GDP

H

+ b = GNP

+

D = GNP

GDP

ROW

H

ROW

WHY?

 are A & D so large?

 are b & c so small?

 is GNP

H

= A + b?

is GNP

ROW is GDP

H

= is GDP

ROW

= c + D?

A + c?

= b + D?

What is A + b + c + D?

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