# All Questions

11,605 questions
Filter by
Sorted by
Tagged with
4 views

### long run growth of money supply

I am trying to understand how the money supply (bank deposits + currency) grows over time. That's the end goal. This is the first part of my awful struggle. I'm superconfused, and almost everything I ...
22 views

I am facing some problems in deriving the two equations for trade balance (from which we derive that the trade balance is zero within each country) in the article "A SIMPLE FRAMEWORK FOR ...
22 views

### Why are constant price elasticities reported?

Price elasticity of demand $\mathrm{e_{D,P} = \dfrac{dD}{dP}. \dfrac{P}{Q^*}}$ clearly depends on the levels of price and quantity. Then why is everywhere (research papers, textbooks etc.) a constant ...
30 views

### 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 ...
12 views

### Fundamental Analysis of economic data [closed]

Would anyone of you help me understand how to analyze the economic data released such as NFP, Bank interest rates decisions, GDP data, Employment change, Retail sales data, and crude oil inventories ...
331 views

### Strike time in a game

Suppose A forwards a puzzle to B where if B solves the puzzle within 24 hours then it gets a payoff of M (M>0), if not then it gets nothing i.e. 0. Consider A locks the money with the bank for the ...
25 views

### Penalty higher or lower than reward? [closed]

I am trying to design a financial contract where good behavior will ensure that a player gets a reward of A. Bad behavior will lead to penalization. Let the penalty be B. My question is that what must ...
20 views

### What is the difference of communism and socialism? [closed]

I am kind of wondering this question. I do not want to argue with people about things if I am not 100% sure what they are or what the differences are. If you know please do let me know.
18 views

### Solving a maximization problem [closed]

As stated in the image above, I want to solve the maximization problem for the control, state and co-state variables.
54 views

### The difference between capitalism and communism

I'm mostly a software developer, and we like to assign structures containing fields to things. For capitalism; if every thing had an owner field, an ...
31 views

### Why does LRAC not connect the minima of SRAC curves? [duplicate]

Can anyone please provide an intuitive explanation and proper mathematical reason for non-intersection of SRAC and LRAC at the minimas of SRAC? I am seeing conflicting [1] [2] answers on the site ...
35 views

### Calculating elasticity for $y^2e^{x+\frac{1}{y}}=3$

I want to calculate elasticity of y with respect to x for $$y^2e^{x+\frac{1}{y}}=3$$ My attempt: I calculate $y'$ using: $$y'= -\frac{f_1'(x,y)}{f_2'(x,y)} = - \frac{y}{2-y}$$ I calculated this using ...
27 views

### Importance of Combinatorics [closed]

Hi I wanted to know how important combinatorics is. I am an undergraduate student looking to take more math courses and I saw and intro to combinatorics as an option. The reason I am asking is because ...
26 views

### 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 ...
26 views

### Is money supply important? [closed]

Back in March, I believe, Jerome Powell mentioned that '... right now... M2 does not really have important considerations' and that thinking that it does is something that 'needs to be unlearned'. Is ...
34 views

### Am I getting comparative statistic right?

Hi I was trying to write down my logic in comparative statistic and I was not sure if I am getting it right. Suppose for each county $c$, an agricultural production function takes the form of Cobb-...
72 views

### Two Sellers, One Buyer Auction

Consider the following game. There are two sellers, each of whom can produce one unit of an indivisible good. The cost of producing the unit for seller i is $c_i$ . There is a single buyer who wishes ...
35 views

### 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 ...
38 views

### Bargaining game of two robbers

I could not solve the following question. I don't know how to incorporate expectation in expected utility calculations. I would be very happy if you could help me. Consider the following bargaining ...
31 views

35 views

### Can we pursue the goals of environmental sustainability and reduction of income inequality at the same time?

Environmentalists tell us to reduce our carbon footprint by, among other things, reducing our traveling and consumption of long-hauled goods. But people living in small-market export-oriented ...
41 views

### Revelation principle when the type space is infinite [closed]

Consider a mechanism design problem in which the agents have type spaces that are uncountably infinite. I have a couple of questions which are numbered throughout this post. The revelation principle ...
212 views

### Is modern monetary theory sustainable?

I am looking around at a lot of the central banks around the world (primarily ECB, Fed, and BOJ) and they all seem to be simply printing their way out of any issues with their economies. As far as I ...
84 views

### Can inflation show up in assets without necessarily being reflected in classic inflation indexes?

I have been having an argument with a friend of mine who obtained an economics degree in college. I have been arguing that increased money supply from the fed has led to inflation in asset prices, ...
28 views

### Who gained from 2008 financial crisis and how much? [closed]

To put it simply some people bought something (AAA rated mortgage-backed securities) overpriced during 2008 and lost money. It's obvious that this was a zero-sum game and as always their loss was ...
13 views

### Pricing optimisation when elasticities are positives? [duplicate]

I’m performing some exercises in order to get the optimal price of some product such a potato chips, biscuits, drinks, etc. (I’m taking price per unit and sales in units) But I’ve found that some of ...
25 views

### Optimal price when elasticity of demand is positive? [closed]

I’m performing some exercises in order to get the optimal price of some product such a potato chips, biscuits, drinks, etc. But I’ve found that some of them have positive elasticities. This can makes ...
38 views

### Theoretical models of copyright infringement and efficiency implications

I wanted to know if there are theoretical models of copyright infringement and what are their implications for efficiency in the market and also, if possible, any empirical support they have. When I ...
32 views

### Since externalities can never be perfectly priced in by markets, what’s to stop the price system from collapsing under long term competitive pressure? [closed]

As we know that externalities will always exist in reality attached to any complex system of exchange, there will be ever increasing incentives to shift real costs into negative externalities and thus ...
68 views

### Trouble at differentiating a consumption function

everyone. This is kind of a basic question, but I have a weak background on calculus and I already tried to figure this out by myself for a few hours without success. So, I am finally appealing on you ...
15 views

### How to find equilibrium price with inverse demand? [closed]

So I know how to do it when it is a function of Q but as a function of P I'm confused about what steps I have to take demand: p = 1000-0.025q supply: p=150+0.033q
14 views

### Refunded Emission Payments - how does it work?

I know that there are different types of Refunded emission payments e.g., : expenditure based output based However, I think it is difficult to understand how Refunded emission payments works? I ...