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