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How much would it realistically cost to give housing to all Americans earning less than 40k per year?
There are certain programs in NYC like CityFHEPs and HUD housing throughout the US for people in a homeless shelter on cash assistance and/or some other conditions, making it possible, but quite ...
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Why doesn't the government subsidize firms on the condition that they lower prices?
Lets pretend that all production is contingent on fixed cost capital, the good or service made from this capital is sold at a price that means that demand is below what the capital has the capacity to ...
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What are the purely financial implications of exempting taxes for the public spending?
I've had this question for quite a long time by now ; wouldn't it be far more efficient in terms of administrative costs and beuraucratic efficiency to exempt public spendings from its taxes?
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Is there a consensus in economics about public housing?
I'm looking for a meta - analysis / review discussing the question if public housing has a net benefit to the public.
EDIT: To be more specific I follow the definition used in the United States where ...
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Difficulties understanding the equation of a paper on R&D investments (D.P. Gross, B. N. Sampat - "America, jump-started)
I am trying to read a paper on government R&D investments during the second world war and its long-run effects on innovation and economic growth (D. P. Gross, B. N. Sampat - "America, jump-...
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What is the economically most efficient way to spend on activites which don't produce direct economical gain?
By directly non essential, I mean things like sports, research at public universities etc. How should a government decide how much of the yearly budget to keep for such things? Is there some way to ...
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Is the government putting a 20% tax on dividends equivalent to the government owning 20% of the company?
This question is about an answer user253751 wrote to one of my questions on Politics SE.
Consider a country where a government puts a 20% tax on oil and gas profits. Consider a different country ...
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What would happen to the housing market if investors could only have one extra house?
What would happen if investors were restricted to only own 2 apartments, one to live in and one to rent out? They wouldn't be able to own any more apartments. How would it look? If needed, explain ...
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Which sanction against Russia creates the least side effects on Western economies: SWIFT disconnect or denying selling of government bonds?
This NBC article suggests more fragility to sanction Russia by barring its central bank to sell government bonds as opposed to disconnecting it from the SWIFT, where there is virtually an EU + UK + US ...
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Should governments print money while the currency gets stronger
In a given situation where a local currency becomes very strong compared to other major currencies (like the USD, EUR, etc...), should the government / central bank leverage the opportunity to print ...
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Does stronger regulation of economic activity impede economic growth in constitutional democracies with basic constitutional rights?
Given similar democratic constitutions and basic constitutional rights such as property rights, freedom of speech, freedom of press etc and the definition of regulation according to OECD:
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Government stimulus
Where does the money come from to pay Americans such a generous stimulus? What is the economic benefit? Is there something that is not visible to everyone else? If we give all this money to everybody ...
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How did the US Government fund its deficit when the Federal Reserve was pruning its balance sheet in 2018-1019?
The primary way for Governments to fund their deficits is by issuing new currency from the central bank against new treasury bonds.
The Federal Reserve reduced its [balance sheet]1 from 4.4 trillion ...
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What are the 'Public Account Liabilities' of the Government of India?
In the Quarterly Report on Public Debt Management for the Quarter Jul - Sep 2020 of the Government of India, an increase in 'Public Debt Liabilities' is declared.
What are they?
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Difference between 'Internal Debt' and 'Market Loans' in RBI public debt statistics
While perusing RBI public debt statistics, I am at my wits end in trying to figure out the table headers.
I am unable to sum up any combination of them to get any other.
Specifically, what is the ...
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Why should prices come down (in theory) in an educated society with a well-run government?
In Chapter 1 of Robert Kiyosaki's "Rich Dad, Poor Dad", the rich dad says: "In an educated society with a well-run government, prices should actually come down".
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Are there any analysis of what is the net benefit of NASA program to US economy?
I am looking for some study that tries to calculate whether the NASA program on a net basis benefits the US economy. The program is very expensive, but it generates lots of patents, research, jobs and ...
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Can printing money with simultaneous government intervention to increase supply prevent inflation?
Just as above...If we print money and simultaneously introduce some sort of government intervention in order to increase supply/ production, then supply and demand would be 'balanced' and therefore ...
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Externality and Output
In a positive externality, can government just set the price to the socially efficient price instead of a subsidy to correct an externality?
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Could eliminating all taxes and only creating new money theoretically work?
Imagine you had the opportunity to found a new country from scratch (in 2020).
Value exchange would be digital, where only the state can create new currency units.
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Why doesn't government work more like a company when it comes to taxes?
In government, the revenue is fixed (most of the time); you don't have to anything extra to get money from your "investors", i.e citizens. Similarly, from a citizens' perspective, whether ...
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Are government bonds internal or external debt?
I was watching this video and since it's a bit oversimplified I wanted more information.
I was curious because internal debt is in the local currency from local lenders, while external debt is in a ...
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Is there contradiction between ''job creation" and "growth" as implemented by automation?
Joint goals of job creation and sustainable growth are the main goals of majority of EU funding schemes. E.g. European Innovation Institute explicitly states in its mission https://eit.europa.eu/who-...
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Can a rescue package be considered as a subsidy to the industry?
In the BBC article, France announces €8bn rescue plan for car industry, it is mentioned that the car industry will be given a rescue package to avoid unemployment. Would this be considered as a ...
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Do (any) governments or central banks have an explicit or econometrically probable policy to "prop up" stock market prices?
This assumption (that governments [in the a broad sense of the term] prop up stock prices deliberately) has been taken as a given/assumption in another question here.
Is there evidence that they ...
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Who owns money?
Bishop Nicole Oresme (1320-1382), in the first monetary treatise, wrote:
CHAPTER VI: Who owns the Money? (Cuius sit ipsa moneta?)
Although it is the duty of the prince to put his stamp on the money ...
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Why don't we count incomes of the government from taxation when calculating GDP using the income approach?
According to the income approach GDP is equal to wages + rent + interest + profit, income from taxes isn't included.
The government provides people and organizations with public goods (like roads and ...
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Does Medicaid or Medicare represent a higher risk to the Federal Government Solvency and Debt going forward?
I'm trying to understand not only which program is expected to be larger in terms of costs, but which one has the least capacity to adjust (reduce benefits if revenues for the program fall).
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Why salaries counted under Government expenditure in GDP
In the expenditure approach of GDP calculation, why are government employee's salary counted under Government approach while for private firms, we don't count salaries. I am unable to understand if ...
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What does it mean by Global recession?
I am bit curious to understand what it actually means when I read global recession is coming soon. There are some questions which pop in my mind reading such news. Some of them are:
What causes ...
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What happens if a country omits the zeros of it's current money?
I mean, for example, the government changes all x10000 to x1; where x equals to currency of the respected country (Dollar, for instance).
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Nominal and real government expenditure
I just need to know that how to make a data series of real government expenditures using nominal government expenditure data series.
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The reality of the multiplier effect
I was just reading my economics notes when I stumbled upon this paragraph:
Singapore has a very open economy and imports most of its inputs and necessities, which means that MPM is likely to be ...
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Is it possible to commodify the State?
Karl Marx said that capitalism commodifies everything. So I'm wondering if that rule applies to the very State itself.
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Breaking Up The Big Banks [closed]
How can banks break themselves up? If they refuse to how can the federal government force them to break up or break them up themselves?
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Economics PhD graduate? [closed]
What are the options for Economics PhD students after graduation? I am aware most students end up going into academia as either professors or researchers. What are the options in the corporate world ...
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What are the arguments for banning insider trading?
I can't see any economic argument for banning insider trading. In general, the point of allowing financial securities to be traded is to ensure that they are properly valued. "Insiders" seem better ...
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Use of DSGE models for the day-to-day government policy decisions? If no - then what are obstacles?
Are DSGE models used for the day-to-day government policy estimation and optimization? E.g. can DSGE model be used for estimation of the return of additional investments in education and how those ...
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Relevance of government liabilities to GDP
After Malaysia's national debt was [reassessed][1], its totaled $250bn along with other government liabilities.
Now, I'm having trouble understanding the direct relevance of the ratio of goverment ...
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How to determine the default probability of a county in a bond that is not in its native currency?
Consider the following case:
Country P uses the currency Euro and gives p percent interest on a one year bond issued in Euro.
Country Q uses the currency TL and gives q percent interest on a one ...
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Government efforts in tackling the food crisis
I am a student taking H2 economics at the 'A' levels. Recently, in one of our case study questions in one of the tutorials on the price mechanism and its applications, we covered the food crisis. As I ...
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Can't government experiment on price in the case of a monopoly?
In the lecture given by Jon Gruber at MIT, he talks about the governmental regulations on monopolies, and he states that
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Why regulate the financial world rather than take over some of the services?
The government regulates some of the behavior of financial markets. Understandably, especially considering the crisis.
But would it not be easier if the government overtook some of the aspects of the ...
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Generic bond yileds
I was looking on historical sovereign bond yields for a project.
I was wondering what is meant by "generic bond yields" mentioned on bloomberg. Somewhere else i found data about the same country but ...
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What are the Economic reasons and explanations to make a referendum?
Australia is now conducting a survey on same sex marriage, to decide if they take the vote to the parliament or not. Although it is called a survey, the population is treating it as a referendum. The ...
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What branch of Economics does 'e-governance' fall under?
I need to work on a project regarding e-governance in a region of India, and, I need to consult professors in education institutes who would have knowledge in this subject. So, for that I need to know ...
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Difference between a 3-months UK nominal spot rate and a 3-months UK treasury bill discount rate?
I am trying to collect data I could use for calibration of a short-rate modeling process, so I need data which represents the historical short-rates.
On the Bank of England webpage I came across the ...
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How much does a public sector pay rise actually cost the UK government?
This is something that's in the UK news at the moment. Public sector workers have experienced a 1% annual cap on pay increase since 2013.
Government ministers are appearing on TV saying that they don'...
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Falling oil prices but no benefits passed on to the end user; government's strategy
Even though the oil prices have fallen rapidly in the recent years, the cost of petroleum products hasn't gone down in India.
Apart from raising more revenue, what are the other benefits the ...
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How does the government launch of Tomahawk missiles against Syria affect the economy and governmental budget?
Last night an air strike was launched against Syria of about 60 Tomahawk missiles. At approximately $832,000 apiece, this airstrike cost the US gov't about 49 million dollars. Initially, this sounds ...
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