broad measures of economic activity

Module 2 Case study

Module 2 is all about broad measures of economic activity. So, this case study will take a look at Universities in a particular state. The state will be the first letter of your first or last name. If the first letter of your first or last name is not included in the US list of states, contact me and I assign a special state to you.

Task:

• Introduce your state and describe the specificities of the higher education system for your chosen state.List all of the private and public universities for your chosen state.
• Explain the relationship between finances for those universities which are state supported.
• Calculate and develop a graph which will show the inflation rates for the private institutions in your state from 2010 to 2017. Your base year will be 2010.
• Using the state institutions only compare the 3 highest inflation rates for the universities in your state. Compute the inflation rates for 2016 and 2017 using 2015 as the base year.
• What is the current CPI for the largest city in your state? What does it mean? Select an item used in the calculation for the CPI and explain the increase or decrease in the CPI.
• Summarize your findings, document your sources of information, and prepare the information in a case study format.
• The state will be Hawaii