Posted: April 13th, 2023

Global Economics essay

BCO221 GLOBAL ECONOMICS (4 ECTS) Task brief & rubrics
Professor: Nelson Ferreira
Presentation assignment
Please, consider what kind of factors can signalize a potential economic crisis and explain in which way they affect the business environment through an
example. Finally, explain how you would suggest an organization to be prepared for it.
Formalities:
• These presentations must be individual and must take place on campus, unless major health issue.
• Students cannot touch the screen, neither the keyboard. Only person in the room that have access to the keyboard and screen.
• Each student will have 5 minutes for presenting his/her answer.
• Powerpoint slides used for presentation must be uploaded to turnitin, once reviewed, 48h after the presentation.
Submission: Week (10) – Via Moodle (Turnitin). Due in week 10 Sunday 18th April
Weight: This task is a 20% of your total grade for this subject.
It assesses the following learning outcomes:
• Outcome 1: understand the working of international financial markets and global economy.
• Outcome 2: evaluate the state of the economy and the early warnings of a crisis
• Outcome 3: Illustrate the key issues related to the business environment and formulate an analysis of firm´s behavior in the global context.
• Outcome 4: apply the theoretical concepts to real world scenarios
Rubrics
Exceptional 90-100 Good 80-89 Fair 70-79 Marginal fail 60-69
Knowledge &
Understanding
(20%)
Student demonstrates
excellent understanding of
key concepts, uses
vocabulary in an entirely
appropriate manner and
achieves a good holistic
control of Global
economics’ outcomes
Student demonstrates
good understanding of the
task and mentions some
relevant concepts and
demonstrates use of the
relevant vocabulary.
Achieves an acceptable
good holistic control of
Global economics’
outcomes
Student understands the
task and provides minimum
theory and/or some use of
vocabulary.
Student understands the task
and attempts to answer the
question but does not
mention key concepts or uses
minimum amount of relevant
vocabulary.
Application (30%) Student applies fully
relevant knowledge from
the topics delivered in class
to real cases
Student applies mostly
relevant knowledge from
the topics delivered in class
to real cases.
Student applies some
relevant knowledge from
the topics delivered in
class. Misunderstanding
may be evident.
Student applies little relevant
knowledge from the topics
delivered in class.
Misunderstands are evident.
Critical Thinking
(30%)
Student critically assesses
in excellent ways, drawing
outstanding conclusions
from relevant authors.
Student critically assesses
in good ways, drawing
conclusions from relevant
authors and references.
Student provides some
insights but stays on the
surface of the topic.
References may not be
relevant.
Student makes little or none
critical thinking insights, does
not quote appropriate
authors, and does not
provide valid sources.
Communication
(20%)
Student communicates
their ideas extremely
clearly and concisely,
respecting word count,
grammar and spellcheck
Student communicates
their ideas clearly and
concisely, respecting word
count, grammar and
spellcheck
Student communicates
their ideas with some
clarity and concision. It
may be slightly over or
under the wordcount limit.
Some misspelling errors
may be evident.
Student communicates their
ideas in a somewhat unclear
and unconcise way. Does not
reach or does exceed
wordcount excessively and
misspelling errors are
evident.