Questions tagged [reference-request]
requests for information about papers, books, or other sources that address a particular economic question or issue.
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How to start with scenario study in health economics?
In Health economics, my advisors mentioned scenario studies, especially relating to epidemiological spread (for example relating to COVID-19). I am wondering if there is any some cornerstone reference ...
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Research on the effect of government size on prosperity?
Is there any analysis done to empirically determine the relationship between government size and prosperity of a country?
I am not really that familiar with empirical economic research. But it is ...
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How to weakly predict T-bill rates?
I know, I know -- if I could predict Treasuries, I could leverage that information, various forms of the EMH, etc. But a lot of people have mortgages (ARMs) tied to US1Y, and so having some kind of ...
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Is there Modern Translation Book for Wealth of Nations?
Is there a New/Modern English Translation of Adam Smith "Wealth of Nations"? I cannot locate any online, it is a great read, just trying to understand it better.
The old/classical style of ...
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Is there research on the level of individuals regarding the origins of hyperinflation?
I am interested in inflation, specifically hyperinflation. Can anybody point me to research (papers, books) done on the individual origins and mechanisms at work at the very beginning of ...
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locating specific model from organizational economics
I am trying to find one specific model from organizational economics that I encountered in one of my past classes, but I cant remember the name of the model and google scholar search based on some of ...
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What is economic nowcasting?
I am looking for a short review article on "economic nowcasting". Is there something recommended for someone interested in data science?
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The efficacy of death penalty in reducing violent crimes
Common sense says that the provision of death penalty would make it costlier for people to commit crimes like murder or rape, thus reducing the expected payoffs and accordingly the occurrence of such ...
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Looking for mathematically “rigorous” problem sets to practice Microeconomics at the intermediate level
I am looking for decent resources to practice and learn Microeconomics. I need problems that are more involved unlike the ones in Varian's Workbook. For this, I decided to use Nicholson and Snyder (NS)...
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Nash bargaining solution textbook treatment
I'm looking for some reference that treats the solution that Nash gave to the bargaining problem in which two parties must share the surplus derived from engaging in a cooperative relationship. ...
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Idea Production Function References
I've read in growth theory about the Idea production function:
$\dot{A}=f(A,S)$
which states that the change in ideas or blueprints or patents is a function of past ideas and the number of scientists.
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Does bank loan support affect companies in negative way?
I'm new to the economics exchange environment. My question may seem amateurish, but I did not find a satisfactory result by doing the necessary literature search.
A question that has been on my mind ...
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Reference for “Sustainable competitive advantage” and “Strong Balance sheets”
Sustainable competitive advantage are company assets, attributes, or abilities that are difficult to duplicate or exceed; and provide a superior or favorable long-term position over competitors.
In ...
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How many ways to call dependent and independent variables?
The words "dependent variables" and "independent variables" are the cornerstones of every regression. However, I am collecting the alternative ways to call these two terms. Because ...
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Reference for the impact of consumer pressure on firms' competition? [closed]
I am looking for justification or reference for the impact of consumer pressure (consumer bargaining power, or consumer satisfication) on firms' competition.
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What is the economic word for firms buy material in credit?
I am looking for the word relating to firms' account payable, meaning that firms buy the materials from suppliers without paying money immediately.I need the word to search on google scholar for some ...
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Beginner's Guide to Econometrics [duplicate]
I was wondering if you could guide me to a book that I can use as a starting point for preparing myself for graduate level econometrics. I will be applying for MA programs this fall and wanted a head ...
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About the 9 tests on Index number theory to evaluate the efficency of the different types of price indexes
Correct me if I'm wrong, I've seen a section in Wikipedia about Index number theory and I've understand it as "if an index x (Laspeyres, Paasche, etc.) satisfies all of this test, then it's 100% ...
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References for regional classification
I read an international study, Table 2 and see that the author did regions*year fixed effect. I am looking for some reference to classify 64 coutries in their paper to different region.
I found a link ...
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Is there any reference for labour finance?
Is there any recent reference for labour finance, in which labour finance relating to financial statements? And what are the alternative name for "labour finance"?
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Evidence for or against the Efficient Market Hypothesis in financial markets and the currently dominant view
The Efficient Market Hypothesis seems to draw quite a lot of attention in popular debates, and in general during discussions on Behavioral Finance, where it is often seen as not entirely correct.
I ...
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Is the book by Nicholson and Snyder more rigorous when compared to Varian's Intermediate Microeconomics?
I am about to start learning college level Economics and the two books that are commonly used are Intermediate Microeconomics by Hal Varian and Microeconomic Theory: Basic Principles and Extensions by ...
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Is there any academic paper documented about firms' trade credit collection approach?
I am looking for some papers that documented some trade credit collection approaches, especially when the market becomes more competitive. In another word, what should the managers do to improve the ...
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Is there any academic paper documenting the importance of the Operating Cycle?
Content from a website that :
The Operating Cycle offers an insight into a company’s operating
efficiency. A shorter cycle is preferred and indicates a more
efficient and successful business. A ...
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What are the liabilities of a bank?
Particularly in this context I have come across topics like:
1.Margins held against letters of credit/guarantees.
2..Balances in overdue fixed deposits.
3.Cash certificates and cumulative/recurring ...
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Having difficultly to understand two indices with regard to inflation
What are these terms "provisional headline inflation" and "imputed index" used to predict in terms of inflation?
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Alternative ways of visualizing longitudinal macro data?
Problem: Visualizing longitudinal is challenging when the dataset has large number of panel members. A common ways to visualize such data is to either make a large set of small individual plots such ...
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Lab experiments of labour markets
I have been searching for papers that conduct lab experiments simulating a labour market, that means for a minimum there are both participants taking the role of firms, and participants taking the ...
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Data on inflation target on different countries around the world
Does someone know if there's a page, like a "global bank" online page, where one could see the inflation target for different countries?
For example, in x country, for x' year, the inflation ...
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What cognitive biases reduce savings?
In Thinking Fast and Slow Kahneman explains that people can sometimes save less because they underestimate the future benefit to themselves because they view present and future self differently. I ...
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Examples of the use of Vector Autoregressive Models
I am self-learning Vector Autoregressive Models currently, and have practiced on a few datasets. But I wanted to read some actual research papers that use VAR, so that I get an idea of the level of ...
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Convex rationalization when the budget sets are segments?
Backgroud:
SARP can be defined on general budget set.
SARP: Assume for all $B$ the choice $c(B)$ is only one element. If $x_i,x_{i+1}\in B_i$, and $x_i = c(B_i)$, for all $i\in \{1,N-1\}$, then $x_1=...
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What are some good Phd or research programs for Economic History / Economic Thought History?
Please correct me if I am wrong, but my impression is that most "mainstream" economics programs are now focusing less and less on economic thought history. So, in order to do research on ...
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Ordinally Separable Utility Representation
Let $X_i$ be a separable, compact, Banach space.
Definition: A weak order $\succeq$ on $X=\prod_{i=1}^NX_i$ has an ordinally separable representation if there exists $u_i: X\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ and ...
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Is egyptology a pyramid scheme: Self-perpetuating university programs
My friend got a degree in egyptology, but can’t get a job, So he’s paying more money to get a Phd, so he can work teaching other people egyptology. In his case college is literally a pyramid scheme.
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Order-driven vs quote-driven markets
What is the difference between order driven and quote driven markets? Is there any theoretical microstructure book that gives the intuition behind the types of markets with respect to the orders that ...
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Financial wellbeing overall components and datasets
I am currently doing a project on financial wellbeing, but on the level of entire countries. I am aware of studies and data pertaining to financial inclusion, as often studied in Development Economics,...
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Do Human Resources use information on applicants' child rearing effort as a signal
In Spence's Job Market Signaling paper (a non-paywalled version is available here) firms observe applicants' educational investment. From these signals the firms glean information on the "type&...
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Necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a utility function
I was reading Jehle and Reny, Advanced Microeconomic Theory, where they discuss in detail, the choice problem of a consumer. The Consumption Set (or Choice Set) $X$ is a subset of $R_+^n$, is closed ...
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Shapley Value - Any Real World Applications?
The Shapley Value has been around for seven decades now. It is intuitive, tractable, and has many desirable properties. To my surprise, however, its actual applications in the real world are not ...
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economics paper with most coauthors
A high number of co-authors on scientific papers is not uncommon, but in economics I rarely see one with more than 5 coauthors.
Does anyone know the paper in economics that has the highest number of ...
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Econometric analysis of mergers from a company's point of view
I am learning about financial analysis of mergers and acquisitions: most of the models are based on accounting principles and simple assumptions.
I wanted to delve deeper into more statistical/ ...
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Is there a book or notes that explain all about inflation? [closed]
Is there a book or notes or papers (but for easy understanding please) that explain all about inflation?
Not at a research level but student level.
From what is previously needed to define and ...
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Macroeconomic model or knowledge base representing connected industries in the world
I'm looking for data (model, Expert system, knowledge base) that describes how different industries and countries interact with each other. And the nature of the relationship between them.
An example ...
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Original formulation of the axioms of rationality [duplicate]
Completeness and transitivity are considered to be the two axioms of rationality in case of decisions under certainty. I wanted to know when were these axioms first proposed, by whom and the first ...
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Marginal Cost of Labour Under Monopsony - is the real world like this?
How common is a Perfectly Discriminating Monopsonist in respect to labour rates?
Or anything close to it?
Standard explanations show a normal supply curve for labour, and the marginal cost of that ...
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Short textbook of econometrics?
I'm looking for a textbook about econometrics, but I'd like to find one with the following features :
Short (350 pag. max)
Introductory
Clear on the math and stats used
With exercises
Do you know a ...
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Accounting for household work in the GDP
It is often told that domestic work is not included in the GDP estimates due to difficulty in measuring them. I wanted to know if there are any advances in measuring this, or any alternatives that ...
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Financial Crisis text book recommendation
I am looking for an academic textbook on the science of financial crises, such as bank runs, monetary crisis, bubbles, stock market crashes etc.
Ideally, the textbook would address what is currently ...
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Why is the rate of profit not important?
I've been taking some time to read up on the history of economic thought and am wondering why the rate of profit (which was a measure heavily discussed up to the 1970s) seems to disappear out of ...
