Using the new trade theory and Porter’s theory of national competitive advantage, citing an actual specific multinational firm or an actual specific industry and describe within the framework of new trade theory and Porter’s theory of national competitive advantage why this specific firm or specific industry may emerge as a leading competitor in the global economy. Drawing upon the new trade theory and Porter’s theory of national competitive advantage, outline the case for government policies and other factors that could build national competitive advantage. Are these government policies at variance with the basic free trade philosophy?

An insurance company estimates the probability of an earthquake in the next year to be 0.0015. the average damage done to a house by an earthquake it estimates to be $90,000. if the company offers earthquake insurance for $150, what is company`s expected value of the policy? hint: think, is it profitable for the insurance company or not? will they gain (positive expected value) or lose (negative expected value)? if the expected value is negative, remember to show "-" sign. no "+" sign needed for the positive expected value

What additional information about the numbers used to compute this ratio might be useful in you assess liquidity? (select all that apply) (a) the maturity schedule of current liabilities (b) the average stock price for the industry (c) the average current ratio for the industry (d) the amount of current assets that is concentrated in relatively illiquid inventories

Suppose life expectancy in years (l) is a function of two inputs, health expenditures (h) and nutrition expenditures (n) in hundreds of dollars per year. the production function is upper l equals ch superscript 0.40 baseline upper n superscript 0.60l=ch0.40n0.60. beginning with c = 1, a health input of $400400 per year (hequals=44) and a nutrition input of $400400 per year (nequals=44), show that the marginal product of health expenditures and the marginal product of nutrition expenditures are both decreasing. the marginal product of health expenditures when h goes from 44 to 55 is nothing, and the marginal product of health when h goes from 66 to 77 is nothing. (round your answers to three decimal places.)