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Hey guys, So I was wondering if I've done the ratio analysis for a firm, would the calculations be included in the word count for the research project? Thanks in advance!
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So my IA1 first draft in economics is due in 5 weeks and I have been looking for some articles. Found plenty on taxation of products for example this one, http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/drinks-sugar-food-obesity-1.3392550 and this one, http://krqe.com/2016/01/12/proposal-would-hike-taxes-on-tobacco-nicotine-products/ Is it good enough? Which one is better? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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Hey, so basically, I need to pick a company to work on for my business IA. Idk if I should go with something that's more tech-based like Sony or Apple or if I should just pick a fast food chain like Burger King, or maybe there's another type of company that's even better. So yeah, which companies do you recommend to work on for a business IA? I'm HL btw.
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hey, so i am currently in the process of looking for a article to write about for the commentary and i found this one: http://theregister.co.nz/news/2015/07/university-auckland-says-tax-everyday-food-items-could-save-lives but i really dont know if its a good article to write about. Can someone please tell me??? Thanks!
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Hi guys! Is it so difficult in taking econ hl ... my fear is that in my school there is not a good teacher for econ, and therefore probably I have to self-study... can I make it? By the way I am taking math hl thank you!
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Hey guys, We are doing now Market Structure( Oligopoly, Monopolistic Competition, Monopoly,etc..) What is the best way to represent it on a paper and how to make it simple? Thanks
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Hi for my International Economics IA I need to draw a reduction in tariff diagram. As this diagram is different to the one that simply shows the entire tariff being removed. I am wondering if you guys know how to draw a reduction in tariff diagram and also describe the effects of the tariff. Thank you!
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Hello, please help to get a good grades in the Economics HL. Give some advice, or how you are dong good in that. Thanks, Valeria
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Hello! For my 1st IA the resource of my article was New York Times and for 2nd Japan Times and now I have a doubt about these websites. The doubt is about that I am not sure are these resources considered as one because two of them are part of "Times".. And for IA there should be 3 different resources and I do not know are they going to penalize me for criteria F - Rubric requirements. What do you think? Thank you in advance!
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Hey guys. So I'm doing a mock IA on this article http://www.southwales-eveningpost.co.uk/Minimum-alcohol-price-law-Wales-say-Labour/story-28029919-detail/story.html and its my first time writing an economics IA. I have written around 400 words however i don't know if I'm going on the right track. So initially I've talked about the article as a whole. Then about price ceiling (while defining it) and its effects (like excess supply) followed by a paragraph on how the government can combat the excess supply. Lastly i did a stakeholder analysis. (all adding up to around 400 words) I just wanted to know whether I'm going on the right track or whether its slightly "rookie-ish…
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Hi, I have found my article for my IA: http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-health-officials-would-add-2-tax-to-pack-of-cigarettes-in-california-20150303-story.html I am not sure what to write... Like what to include? Right now, this is what I've written down: Economic Terms to be Defined Demerit good, Indirect tax and specific tax, Negative externalities of consumption, Market failure, Welfare loss, Elasticity of demand Economic Theory to be used Demand/supply, market failure, elasticity of demand Diagrams Negative externality of consumption Indirect tax on cigarettes I am just not sure how to do it and what to include, how to evaluate... any…
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Hi guys, how was the November Econ exams. Thought we could discuss it here.
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I want to delete this post! Anybody knows how to do it?
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hello everyone. i am new to this forum site, also i am new to the subject of economics. i need your help in my assignment. i cannot give you my question here because your help and answers will be detected in plagiarism testing from my college. anyone can give me your e mail id so i can send my question on email or you can send me your id on my e-mail which is [email protected]. i'll appreciate your help. thank you...
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Is it true that universities think that business and management is a weak and poo subject too choose for the IB?
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Hi! My name is WIno. I am new to the IB scene and to be honest, I am lost right now. I am planning to take Business Marketing and I am having trouble in the subjects. I am struggling in Math Sl as I have never been really good in Maths. I am planing to drop to studies. But before I do, I need some advice. Should I do it or should I maintain myself in Math SL? My IB Subjects BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT ENGLISH B BAHASA INDONESIA MATHS SL/STUDIES GEOGRAPHY ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEM AND SOCIETIES Thanks in advance
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Hello, I'm currently working on my third economics IA on international economics but I encountered some problems with graphing. I want to illustrate the effect of change from per unit tariff to Ad valorem tariff but I'm not sure how to graph the diagrams? Does anyone know how to distinguish 'per unit tariff diagram' from 'Ad valorem tariff diagram'? Thank you so much in advance!
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I'm not an economics student so while trying to understand the math part of this, the vocabulary got me confused. If the graph he drew (see video at given time) was marginal product revenue, why is the area under the curve also marginal product revenue? My understanding is the graph he drew is say R(L) = y, so if say R(0.5) = 25 as he has on the graph, why is the integral of 0 to 0.5 also 25? Is something wrong here? (1:00-1:30) https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/microeconomics/firm-economic-profit/labor-marginal-product-rev/v/how-many-people-to-hire-given-the-mpr-curve Also, the old IB econ book I looked at puts the MPR right at the x value …
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This is more of a math question but I really need opinions from an economics perspective. I'm trying to do an economics based question for a math IA, but I'm trying to reach that "Mathematics is beyond the level of this course" level in SL. So, for anyone taking math HL and economics, is there anything I should learn to make a diminishing returns/productivity model more complex and try to get a higher mark? For example I've heard of l'Hopitals rule and Newton's method but don't know much about what they can be used for. So far it's simply using derivatives on a graph and I don't think that's going to get a very high mark
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Hi, so, I was just wondering if anyone knows the criterion for the Business Management IA? My teacher told us that it was supposed to be no longer than 1 500 words, the example she gave us had no abstract nor did she say that we needed one and that the appendixes are supposed to be the five articles we used the mosts (and that the parts we used had to be highlighted). However, when I read through the instructions in the book it said that it was supposed to be 2 000 words, have and abstract and that appendixes should just be things such as photos,, documents, questionnaires, raw data and such. (Like all the other IAs) I am so confused right now, could someone help me o…
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Does anyone have 2015 Economics papers? I will be willing to trade other resources like textbooks (Pearson, Cambridge, Oxford), worksheets, Questionbanks.
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Does anyone have one to share?
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All my supporting documents for my business IA are from secondary sources, as I'm doing the SL commentary. I was just wondering, when it comes to attaching them to my IA, can I simply copy+paste them into the IA? As I dont know how else to attach them to my word document?
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Is it compulsory to add both Quantitative and Qualitative tools in HL BM IA P.S - My internal assessment is based on marketing, and are there any viable Quantitative tools which i can use in my IA
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Hey Guys, I really need past papers of paper 1 for economics HL. However, most of the ones available online are the old ones. If anyone can upload new ones (2012 onwards i think), that would be extremely helpful. Thanks a lot!
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so basically i've written my IA and i've handed it in and i realised the article says it was written over a year ago and was updated under a year ago. I'm terrified that I will lose points for this. My teacher said he will not remark another IA and therefore i cannot rewrite one. Is there anyway I can change this?
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Hi Everyone I am currently thinking about IA topics but I need some help. Can anyone suggest any topics? Thank you
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In my school we have three topics (subjects) that we choose to do our EE on and my first two choices are Business and Management and Math (I take both at HL level). I was curious about which one to do an EE on. Which subject is it easier to get an A (so to speak)? I like both so I don't mind doing either and for both I have pretty good supervisors.
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Hey guys, So for my primary research I conducted an interview with my client and then distributed a questionnaire amongst his customers. Now the business is very small and does not see a lot of regular customers. So would 15 responses to the questionnaire be sufficient? Will this deduct my marks in any way? Also, did you use a questionnaire as primary research? How many responses did you collect? Thanks in advance for the help
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Hey guys, So I have a doubt about the tools I can use. So far it is, Ansoff Matrix, Force Field Analysis, SWOT Analysis and Decision tree. My questions is, can I make a proposed marketing mix for the business and use that as a tool? I was suggested it by someone but I would like your opinion on it, just to be sure. Thanks in advance.
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Hey guys! I've taken economics hl and I'm confused about the IA. My teacher said there has to be more than 1 diagram (graph) in the commentary, but I don't see anything like that in the guide; is that true? Or its fine if I have only one diagram? I'm also looking for some sample economics IAs that are graded (like there are for sciences on ibpublishing), so if anyone knows any source, please share. Thanks in advance!
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Hi guys! I take BM HL and I'm planning for my IA topic to be Should (company name) centralize the human resource function in their company? However, I'm not very sure what kind of quantitative and qualitative data I can collect that will be relevant to my investigation? Furthermore, will tools such as SWOT analysis or force field analysis be suitable for an IA on human resource? I rarely see any IAs on human resource, so I'm quite worried.... :-(
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hey my question for my IA is "to what extent has government subsidizing affected Tesla" I'm having trouble looking for good tools , do you have nay ideas
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I'm currently working on my Microeconomics IA. It's based on this article. I know about CLASPP and all, but how does one properly analysis and use all the diagram needed for the topic. Could people possibly give me ways to talk about the article?
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Hello! What do you think are we allowed to use website http://uk.reuters.com as a resource for our eco IA? I am not sure since they only mentioned to avoid website http://www.economist.com/ Thank you in advance!
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Can you help me analyze this article? It is pretty simple but I just want to know if I'm on the right track... http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/uk-unemployment-rate-unchanged-5-5-wages-edge-1519938 So basically I have to talk about unemployment and anything else? Thanks in advance!
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My supporting documents are articles I have no clue how to attach them to my IA Can someone please tell me how to do that? I'm typing up my IA on word by the way Thankyou
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Hey guys, Is this a good article for a commentary on Macroeconomics? http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/uk-unemployment-rate-unchanged-5-5-wages-edge-1519938
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Hi guys, so I'm doing my Business IA on a tutoring place I found but I need help deciding what questions to ask during the interview for my primary research. I mean I don't really want to ask for financial statements because its pretty intrusive and I don't wanna lose the business after they have been the only one that were happy with my doing the IA on them out of so many different places. Right now, my research question is based on if they should expand (have multiple locations already but all in one city) their business . But I don't really now what questions I can ask that can benefit my IA or what I should write about. I also don't know what models to use if I do…
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hey people, i started doing my commentary in economics and the website i use to draw graph is hard for me to use it. so can you people suggest me some other website or an app for drawing graphs.? (just the link or name of the website)
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Hey guys! I have problems with finding a very good article for my 2nd IA, and because my first one wasn't as good as I wanted it to, I need this one to be really good. I wanted to write it on either Macroeconomics or International trade and I honestly do not know which one is better... so that's one problem... the second problem is that I have to write the IA till Monday... I found out today. So concluding, can you help me find any good articles on one of the 2 topics?
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Alright so I have a small test tomorrow, and the syllabus says that a paper-1 style question will be given on market failure and a paper-3 style question on subsidies. What is the essential difference between these two types of questions? What might be asked in each? My apologies if this sounds like a basic doubt, but I only just started the IB about three months ago; it'd be great if someone could help out!
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I am currently in my first term of IB and my current subject combination is -Bio HL -Chem HL -Economics HL -English lang and lit SL -German ab initio SL -Maths SL It is early in the term but I am getting a bit worried about my two sciences at HL, and was wondering, if my marks drop, is it recommended to go to B&M HL. I am uncertain as to if I should do this as apparently B&M is also ROTE learning and also quite difficult. Thanks
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I'm currently finishing my Business course with Pamoja, though I had a teacher last year. With my teacher, my notes would be structure as such that I had the syllabus point + the notes pertaining to it. I'm not able to do that with Pamoja. Do you know of any websites with valuable notes? Do your teachers create detailed presentations which they share publicly? Any advice on how I should proceed?
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Hey IBSurvival, I was just wondering whether you could provide me with some preparation tips or maybe with some of your personal habits that have worked out for you. I take HL Economics, and i'm finding the course difficult. My IA's have been 6's so far, and my overall quiz grades are around the 85-90% mark. However, once it comes to the final (unit) tests, I always seem to not understand what the test is asking of me, and I often end up with a mark of 3-5. It's depressing for me, since I love economics. Anything you know that could help me? Thanks, tas
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Hello Everybody, I am sitting my Econ exam in November, and I was wondering if I really needed to study the Theory of the Firm part of HL Econ. In Paper 1, don't they always give you an option of SL micro and HL theory of the Firm? And also for Paper 3, I could always choose the other two options right? Thanks for help,
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Hello everyone, This is my first post here and to be honest at this point I am just desperate. I'm in my final IB year and in Economics HL and everything has been going fine however my econ teacher is atrocious. He firstly doesn't seem to know what he is talking about and he does not teach us properly so we wouldn't know regardless. We are helping each other a lot in our class and working by studying from the books because otherwise we wouldn't be able to learn anything but still most of us feel like there is so so much we don't know. However this year when he decided that we have to start our IA's (duh) firstly he wasn't here for more than two weeks and he also wou…
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Hey! I urgently need help with finding a (new) RQ for my IA in Business (HL) since the one I came up with originally is far too complex to be answered within the wordlimit, so I was thinking to do something simpler instead and wondered if there is anyone who can give me any ideas?
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I'm not very good at Math and doubt I could get a high grade in Math SL, which is why I plan on taking Math Studies. I got a 75% on my last quiz, but that was still pretty basic concepts. Could I take Math Studies and Economics and still get a 6-7 in Economics?
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Hi I would want to start preparing for my exams (also unit tests). I usually study by finding notes online and reviewing notes written by others but I couldn't find good IB Business & Management notes. Could anyone help me with BM notes?? Currently in IB Junior. Especially need Units 1 and 2 urgently.
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