Graeff´s Blog

07:00 I take a short run around stein and the danube bank back to the university.

09:00 strategic management – we play today a strategic management game – the beer game.

after a great start I choose the wrong demand curve modell and sooner then later we have a lot of unused inventory.

19:00 assignment preparation

After taking again an one hour morning run – this time down 17th street to white house, over the mall to Congress, and back to hotel over massachusetts avenue day three started.

• International Trade Policy – by Charles Pearson – what´s the actual status of daho trade negotiations, where are today´s shortcomings of usa´s economic situation – overhelming defict spending, massive trade deficit and low savings rate and what is the forcast for the next rounds of trading negotiations – less mfn´s but more uniliteral trade pacts
• Economics of North American Immigration – by Tamara Woroby – which included some very interesting thoughts about underlying principles of emigration into usa and the difference to the canadian system
• Powercycle Theory – by Charles Doran – a theoretic concept of power distribution between nations and how to plot changes of nations relevance over time in this modell
• Japan and Japan-U.S. Relations – by Kent Calder, what is the political and econamical situation of today´s japan and what´s the status of the relationship between usa and japan
• Iraq and Lessons Learned from Nation-building – by Francis Fukuyama, discussion of the shortcomings of nation / state building processes which have been introduced in iraq

after this I did some shopping at pentagon city – great place and there is also an apple store.