# All Questions

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### Societal benefit of Securitisation (eg Asset Backed Securities)

I was reading about the benefits and harms of securitisation. A research piece suggested "Reducing overreliance on the banking system" with 2 sub-points: Corporates can access to the funding sources ...
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### Accounting of common stock and capital surplus for banks

I am trying to understand the accounting involved with bank capital and am a bit confused about the common stock and capital surplus lines on balances sheets. I would like to know if the following ...
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### Predicting long term asset returns

I am currently trying to form an overall asset allocation strategy which combines base strategic allocation and tactical shifts. My model already incorporates the tactical shifts using various factors ...
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### Why are Hicksian demand curves unobservable

I have read this paragraph in a book (Jehle, Reny: Advanced Microeconomic Theory): I don't quite understand why Hicksian demand curves aren't directly observable? What does observable stand for in ...
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### How should the government react to 50% of the population being wiped out?

In Avengers Infinity Wars the villain snaps his fingers and wipes out 50% of all living creatures. His rationale is that it will save people from starvation and collapse due to resource exhaustion in ...
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### Expected Income Question

An urn contains equal number of green and red balls. Suppose you are playing the following game. You draw one ball at random from the urn and note its colour. The ball is then placed back in the urn, ...
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### Industrial Economics

I am currently struggling trying to find the short-run equilibrium price, output per firm, and profit per firm if $190$ firms supply the market. I am given $p=102-1/2Q$ and $C(q)=5q-6q^2+3q^3$. ...
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### In what kind of economic environment would the cliche of “keeping money under the mattress” be warranted?

I'm trying to apply (ideally empirical-backed) economic theory to an age-old cliche. We must be very articulate about the assumptions, because if it's a total collapse of the dollar, then that ...
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### Would a perishable currency work in a financial crisis today?

I read about perishable currencies in the following article Now my question is if there have been any studies on this and if this may work in modern financial markets?
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### Does quadratic voting fall victim to gibbard's theorem?

Does quadratic voting fall victim to Gibbard's theorem?
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### Do real life economists and financial analysts actually use calculus in their jobs?

From what I understand a lot of calculus is used at university level when studying economics and some finance courses (correct me if I'm wrong) but I was just wondering if economists and financial ...
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### Is the Paradox of Value relevant to the value of labour?

I trust we're all familiar with the Paradox of Value -- that queer state of affairs in which diamonds, which are not good for anything, are very expensive, while water, which we all need to not die, ...
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### Do recessions matter?

One common definition of recession is "two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth". GDP growth affects other variables, such as stock prices, interest rates, unemployment, and personal income. ...
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### What counts as transactions fee in Coase Theorem?

Coase Theorem says that if the transaction fee is negligible then we will have an efficient allocation of resources. In some of the samples, they quote that it doesn't matter who has the right to ...