Post on 01-Apr-2015
Business/Government Relations
1471.23
Fall 2013Bruce Duggan
Providence University College
Business/Government Relations
Business/Government Relations
examples Greece
• may stop using Euro
Canada• bailed out auto industry
Manitoba• deregulated rural bus industry
• has started taxing coal
St Pierre• may constrain sidewalk signs
Our field of study
business government
public
Our field of study
business government
others
public
Goal
not theoretical understanding comprehensive detail
instead you can do this job for your company
• planning ahead
• likely problems
• likely solutions
Syllabus
Text materials Baron
• Business and its environment
Taylor, Warrack, & Baetz• Business and government in Canada
Brookes & Stritch• Business and government in Canada
Syllabus
Baron 1 2 6 7 10 11 12 17
Taylor et al. 10 13
Brookes & Stritch 2 6 7
Syllabus
individual work quizzes writing assignments final exam participation
group work cases project
Project Options
Try to get rural transit up and running for Winter semester
set up a Manitoba Environmental Industries Association student chapter
understand the development of a biomass industry in Manitoba
understand the probable effects of the Canada/Europe free trade agreement
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Syllabus
schedule week 2
• Why is Canadian business the way it is?
• Why should bus care about gov?
week 3 • integrated strategy
making government relations part of a whole
Syllabus
schedule 4
• law and markets Why isn't the market free?
5• current state of business-govt relations
Are we still getting along?
6• navigating federal-provincial waters
Syllabus
schedule 7
• political analysis for business doing the research
8• formulating political strategies
9• business organizations and lobbying
working with other businesses
Syllabus
schedule 10
• regulation law, economics and politics
» They can't tell me how to run my business!
11• government dealing with business
how government controls canadian business
Syllabus
schedule 12
• environmental protection economics, politics and management
» Why are those people protesting?
13• political economy of int’l trade policy
How does the world work?
14• ?
Business/Government Relations
final exam max 3 questions
Who are we?
Ben Bernacke
ChairmanFederal Reserve Board
“…to provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system."
Timothy Geithner
SecretaryU.S. Department of the Treasury
“…responsible for promoting economic prosperity and ensuring the financial security of the United States."
And who am I?
Mark Carney
GovernorBank of Canada
“…to promote the economic and financial welfare of Canada."
Why government?
stability unemployment
www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/11-516-x/sectiond/4057750-eng.htm/www4.hrsdc.gc.ca/.3ndic.1t.4r@-eng.jsp?iid=16www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0104719.htmlwww.bls.gov/opub/cwc/cm20030124ar03p1.htm
Canada
0%
10%
20%
30%
1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000
US
Why government?
stability interest rates
-5%
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
1935 1945 1955 1965 1975 1985 1995 2005
interest rates
unemployment
Why government?
stability inflation & deflation
-50%
-25%
0%
25%
50%
75%
100%
1300 1400 1500 1600 1700 1800 1900 2000
Why government?
stability inflation & deflation
-20%
-10%
0%
10%
20%
30%
1916 1936 1956 1976 1996
UKUSCanada
Why government?
stability
-5%
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
1935 1945 1955 1965 1975 1985 1995 2005
interest rates
unemployment
inflation
Why government?
growth business cycle
“real change in GDP per capita”
-10%
0%
10%
1800 1850 1900 1950 2000
www.measuringworth.org/datasets/usgdp/result.php
-10%
0%
10%
Canada
US
Why government?
growth business cycle
“real change in GDP per capita”
www.measuringworth.org/datasets/usgdp/result.php
1962 1970 1980 1990 2000 2008
Why government?
both stability & growthGDP
inflation
-10%
0%
10%
20%
1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000
unemployment
interest rates
for Tue
read Brooks & Stritch ch. 2
• Business and Government in Historical Perspective