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### Why is JPY considered a “safe currency”?

When the economic prospect around the world feels getting worse and/or getting higher uncertainty, usually the value of JPY is getting higher, because investors are said to start to buy JPY to shelter ...
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### Stimulus Effect of the Minimum Wage

In the question about the minimum wage found here, I have heard several times that an increase in the minimum wage can, as one of several competing effects, "boost the economy" by increasing the ...
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### Preferences where wealth effect dominates

King-Plosser-Rebelo preferences satisfy balanced growth requirements, we have that income and substitution effects of labor cancel. Labor does not respond to a change in the wage level. Greenwood-...
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### Why are CAD, AUD known as commodity currencies

Why are some currencies like CAD, AUD known as commodity currencies?
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### What's the difference between public debt, government debt and national debt?

When it comes to non-private debt, I hear these three terms the most, but I am not sure if they're interchangeable or discernible. Also, are they recorded in the balance of payments? I'm guessing if ...
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### Taxes levied on sellers = Taxes levied on buyers

All page numbers refer to Principles of Microeconomics, 7 Ed, 2014, by NG Mankiw. [p 125:] Taxes levied on sellers and taxes levied on buyers are equivalent. [p 156:] ... When a tax is levied on ...
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### Nominal GDP versus PPP in comparing military spending of different countries?

Military spending as percentage of GDP is the most used measure of the economic capability of a certain country/military. But Some countries like India for example, have a huge difference between ...
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### How to measure GDP in practice?

You can find many explanations of theoretically how GDP is measured. But how is it done in practice? Is it estimated by extrapolating from small samples of activity or can the overall value be ...
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### The Printing of Money for Paying Debt

I know that printing money causes inflation, but what if we print it to pay back our debts? For example, we have N dollars of debt to China. We can just print the N dollars and give it to China. ...
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### Does GDP count both the investment and the house rental?

Suppose you bought a new house in the year of 2010. Then the price of the house in counted toward the 2010 GDP. Say then you live in the new house in the following years. So in these years, the GDP ...
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### Bertrand game - Nash equilibrium

The quantity is limited to 300 but the monopoly quantity is equal to 400 and gives a monopoly price of 600. But if we plug the quantity of 300 into the demand function we get a price of 700.But I am ...
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### Federal Reserve capital injections

What were the specific conditions that the Federal Reserve attached to the capital injections forced upon the major Wall St. banks during the Great Recession? How and why do they differ from normally ...
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### Proving AC is minimized when MC=AC

I am trying to prove that AC is mininimized when AC=MC This is how far I am: FOC: Showing what I want to prove SOC: This has to be positive in order to ensure that AC is minimized, but how can i ...
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### What's the difference between gross fixed capital formation and gross private domestic investment?

Cited from Wikipedia, we know: Gross private domestic investment is the measure of physical investment used in computing GDP in the measurement of nations' economic activity. This is an important ...
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### Will price increase as demand increase?

I know the law of demand which states that if price of a product increases then the demand will decrease In this, I think we assume that price is a function of demand. But I feel otherwise i.e. ...
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### Revenue maximization problem

There are $N>0$ Households in an economy. The government has aim to maximize a weighted average of income by imposing tax on the rich people and redistribute the tax revenue to the labor ones. ...
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### What is the difference between average cost and marginal cost?

$$AC(q) = \frac {C(q)}{q}$$ $$MC(q) = \frac{\partial C(q)}{\partial q}$$ These are the definitions. But I don't understand what the difference is. Is the average cost the cost per unit while the ...
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### convexity of the profit function for profit maximization

the profit function is convex in prices and wages (output and input prices respectively). How does this interact with profit maximization since convexity implies tangents always lie below the curve I ...
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### Is a home (primary residence) purchase a form of investment in macroeconomics?

From Wikipedia, investment in macroeconomics is the purchase of goods that are not consumed within a short amount of time (say 3 years). In this sense, home purchase seems to be a form of investment. ...
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### Does the minimum of short-run average cost equal the minimum of long-run average cost in the long run for perfect competition?

I was recently reading this resource (http://www2.econ.iastate.edu/classes/econ101/hallam/Comp_LongRun_HND.pdf) which states that in the long run for perfect competition, price is equal to both the ...
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### Is the use/consumption of natural resources considered an externality per se?

On a finite planet natural resources are rival goods by definition, i.e. if one agent uses/consumes a natural resource it becomes unavailable for other agents. Mankiw defines an externality as "the ...
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### Heckscher-Ohlin with heterogeneous preferences

could someone really help me out I would need to show a situation in which the Heckscher-Ohlin result does not necessarily hold when preferences are heterogeneous. Does someone have an idea how I ...
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### Would a very cheap renewable energy source be harmful economically?

This question is not on whether these devices work or not but so much as if they did work. What if electricity can be made so cheap that everyone could afford it ti the point there was no demand for ...
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### What are some results in Economics that are both a consensus and far from common sense?

What are some results in Economics that are both a consensus between most economists and far from common sense? I would also welcome suggestions of clear definitions for what we should mean as ...
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### Why is the oil future price negative?

I don't understand why the price of oil futures went negative today. News say it is because sellers cannot sell it. But, why don't they just hoard it until the coronavirus crisis is off? Why don't ...
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### Why do economists disagree so much?

I'm coming at this from a scientific point of view, having had no formal training in economics - most of what I know about it was from self-studying an undergraduate economics textbook. My question ...
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### Partial vs. general equilibrium

Microeconomic models are usually classified as partial and general equilibrium models. As a layman, I understand that partial equilibrium focuses attention on a few economic variables to find the ...
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### Topological concepts in economic theory

QUESTION: What are the major or systematic applications of post-1960s mathematics to microeconomics? For example, in the late 19th century, Fisher first used the mathematical ideas of Gibbs to ...
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### How to intuitively understand the 'Intuitive criterion'?

The intuitive criterion by Cho and Kreps is a refinement to minimise the set of perfect Bayesian equilibria in signalling games. What would a simple and intuitive example to explain this criterion be? ...
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### How do Marxist economists solve the Diamond-Water Paradox?

For class surveying different economic systems, I read a book on Marxism and its core beliefs. As I read, I came to learn that the Marxist view of economics depends heavily on the Labor Theory of ...