# All Questions

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### Constructing a Production Possibility Curve (PPC)

I am trying to create a PPC, in which there are two goods (e.g. apples and oranges). My question is, does it matter which goods are plotted on the x or y-axes? The opportunity cost per good remains ...
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### Are these views on money creation set out by McLeay, Radia, & Thomas (BoE, 2014) mainstream/widely-accepted or heterodox?

In the Bank of England's Quarterly Bulletin, 2014 Q1, McLeay, Radia, & Thomas write a pair of articles titled: "Money in the modern economy: an introduction" and "Money creation in the modern ...
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### Simple Econometric question

From LLN, we have $\text{plim} Y_n=\mu$. Now you have $W_n=Y^3_n$, what is the probability limit of $W_n$? Please help me answer this and thank you!
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### why doesn't every country scale up the prices to the international level?

I live in an Asian country in which the average monthly salary is maybe 300-400 dollars but things (apart from exported goods like laptops or smartphones) are reasonably cheap compared to their price ...
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### how to find the elasticity of log(y) =β0+β1log(x) [closed]

I'm struggling with this question. Please help out with the correct formula. how to find the elasticity of log(y) =β0+β1log(x).
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### How does a bank create new money when it pays its own staff?

I am reading Ryan-Collins et al. (2013, Where Does Money Come From? A Guide to the UK Monetary and Banking System). I think I understand how banks create new money whenever they make a loan. Using ...
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### On marginal arguments for equilibrium conditions

On the Saylor website's course on economics, there is the following sentence, which I do not understand. "In a simple market under perfect competition, equilibrium occurs at a quantity and price ...
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### Supply/Demand Shift (Find New Equilibrium)

Starting: supply curve $y=x+10$ and demand curve $y = -x+30$ with equilibrium at (10, 20). The problem states that DEMAND shifts leftwards by 3 units and to find the new equilibrium. My professor did ...
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### Guess 2/3 of the average with integers - mixed strategy equilibria?

The "Guess 2/3 of the average" game (Wikipedia) is a game in which n people guess what 2/3 of the average of their guesses will be, and where the numbers are restricted to the integer (in this case) ...
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### Constrained Optimization using Lagrangian method

The stationary points that we derive by solving the first order conditions of the Lagrangian are those points global optimum points or local optimum points?
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### If regional subsidiaries bypass trade restrictions, why are FTAs needed?

One of the ways corporations trade transnationally in the face of local restrictions on market access is to set up subsidiary companies or regional offices from which trade is conducted. If such ...
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### What are some of the barriers to trading services?

As I understand it countries negotiate free trade agreements in services using the WTO GATS. But what are some of the barriers to the transnational exchange of services that an FTA would seek to ...
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### Matchstick Game

Consider the following $2$ player finite extensive game. Player $1$ moves first. She must choose an integer from $1$ to $10$, and place that number of matchsticks on the table. Next, Player $2$ must ...
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### Solution to maximization not Pareto efficient

In my economics class, we saw a proof that if an allocation $((\hat x_h), (\hat y_f)), h\in H$ (the set of households), $f\in F$ (the set of firms) is Pareto optimal/efficient, it must necessarily be ...
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### What international payment systems do exist?

I recently read up on the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT). As faar as I understood it was up until recently the only provider of a system to exchange money ...
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### Imperfect Substitutes and Utility Funcitions

The utility function for perfect substitutes is defined as U(X,Y) = aX + bY. If the two goods X&Y are imperfect substitutes what would be their utility function?
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### Question about maintaining fixed exchange rates

In my textbook, borrowing from abroad is listed as one of the method to increase the value of a currency by shifting its demand curve to the right. "If the country borrows from abroad, its loans ...
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### How to control for population in Difference-in-Difference?

Random example, but let's say I'm examining the effect of a health program on influenza cases in India. They just randomly start the program in 7 of the 29 states. I have data on the number of flu ...
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### What is an Economic Sector?

I am of the understanding that an Economy is broken down as follows: Traditional; Command; Market; Mixed. Each Economy being made up of Sectors, which in turn, are made up of Industries. Simply put,...
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### Endogeneity problem with a dummy variable

I have a panel data model as following, $$Y_{it}=intercept +B_1X_{it}+B_2Q_{it}+error_{it}$$ where $i$ is for firm and $t$= time. $Y$= trade credit demand, $X$= inventory cycle, as inventory ...
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### What are general equilibrium effects?

Im reading alot on public finance and have been seeing alot of mention of measuring "general equilibrium effects". I know what general equilibrium is, but i dont know what general equilibrium ...
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### MRS of good X for good Y

I'm having some confusion with using the terminology of MRS. For example, let's take up this question: If good 1 is a “neutral,” what is its marginal rate of substitution for good 2? The answer is:...
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### Is there a definitive way to tell if an action causes a movement or shift in a supply-demand graph?

I am taking AP Macroeconomics, and am about 2/3 of the way through the curriculum. We have learned about various supply-demand graphs, and right now we are working on the market for money. I have ...
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### Demand Curve Price not perfectly elastic

I'm trying to make the argument that our Sales go up when prices for all our Products are 30% off. Which I believe should be our new Regular Price. but our Demand Curve doesn't support this. Should I ...
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### Two deflator series with different base year to proxy real exchange rate

I'm conducting a research in which the real exchange rate serves as a variable. A quick literature review shows that we can use the product of the nominal exchange rate and the ratio between the US ...
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### What's an example of a resource, raw material that has become scarce?

I'm interested in the elasticity price demand that predicts that as a resource becomes more scarce, it gets more expensive. Regarding oil price this isn't clear. Is there an example of a resource ...