Assignment

Paper: Stock Portfolio

At the start of this course, you conducted research in the Walden Library and on the Internet to find information regarding the importance of stock performance of companies in attracting investment capital. You then selected a portfolio of five stocks and reviewed their performance over the past five weeks.

Use the information on the importance of stock performance in attracting investment capital for companies, guidelines for making stock investment decisions, your investment objectives for your stocks, and the stock performance data as the basis for your Final Paper.

Submit a 1,000- to 1,500-word your Paper that addresses the following:

Your Final Paper should include:

• A summary of the importance of stock performance in attracting investment capital for companies.
• Your summary of the guidelines used for making stock investment decisions.
• Your investment objective for each of your five stocks.
• Your initial prediction of what you predicted would be the best and worst performing stocks (as viewed in the first week of class), and the actual performance at the end of four weeks. Be sure to include a table that shows your initial performance ranking (from 1 to 5) and the final performance ranking for each stock.
• A summary of the performance of each of your stocks during the four-week study period.
• The reasons for the four-week performance of each of your stocks.
• Your predictions for future performance of each of your stocks.
• Your list of references used to prepare your report.

You must use at least three authoritative references to support your summary of the importance of stock performance and guidelines for individual investors. Your paper must be presented in APA format.

Note: See the Final Paper area of the course navigation menu for a detailed explanation of the all the requirements for the Final Paper.

Required Resources

Readings

• Frank, R. H., & Bernanke, B. S. (2010). Principles of microeconomics, brief edition (2nd ed.). New York, NY:McGraw-Hill/Irwin.

o Chapter 7, "Monopoly, Oligopoly, and Monopolistic Competition" (pp. 191-221)

Chapter 7 introduces the three types of imperfectly competitive industries: monopoly, oligopoly, and monopolistic competition. The chapter also explains imperfect competition and describes how it differs from perfect competition.

Focus on the forms of imperfect competition, such as monopolistic competition and oligopoly. Focus on the five sources of market power.

o Chapter 8, "Games and Strategic Behavior" (pp. 225-252)

Chapter 8 focuses on the situations in which people in the competitive business are required to consider the implications of their behaviors on others. This chapter explains how competitive firms decide on the prices of their products or services, after considering the responses of their rivals.

Focus on the game theory to analyze strategic decisions. Review games such as the prisoner's dilemma and the repeated prisoner's dilemma.

• Document: Final Paper Template (PDF)

Media

• Kahn Academy. (2014o). Perfect competition [Video file]. Retrieved fromhttps://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/microeconomics/perfect-competition-topic/perfect-competition/v/perfect-competition

Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 10 minutes.

• Kahn Academy. (2014l). Monopoly basics [Video file]. Retrieved fromhttps://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/microeconomics/perfect-competition-topic/monopolies-tutorial/v/monopoly-basics

Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 6 minutes.

• Kahn Academy. (2014n). Oligopolies and monopolistic competition [Video file]. Retrieved fromhttps://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/microeconomics/perfect-competition-topic/monopolistic-competition-oligop/v/oligopolies-and-monopolisitc-competition

Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 9 minutes 30 seconds.

• Kahn Academy. (2014q). Prisoner's Dilemma and Nash Equilibrium [Video file]. Retrieved fromhttps://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/microeconomics/nash-equilibrium-tutorial/nash-eq-tutorial/v/prisoners--dilemma-and-nash-equilibrium

Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 9 minutes 30 seconds.

Optional Resources

• Frank, R. H., & Bernanke, B. S. (2011). Principles of microeconomics, brief edition (2nd ed.) [Supplemental material]. Retrieved from http://highered.mheducation.com/sites/0077316770/student_view0/index.html