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### Determinants of inflation expectation

What are the most important factors that determine inflation expectation in a country, both based on theoretical models and on empirical evidence? If an answer is too lengthy for the site, reference ...
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### Economic growth in a DSGE model, despite mean-zero shocks

The DSGEs I've seen have steady-states, and mean-zero shocks. Can these predict growth in GDP / capital etc? Is this possible despite them being equilibrium models, or do you have to completely change ...
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### C-statistic when one estimation is just identified

My question is motivated by Do, Joshi, and Stopler's paper "Can Environmental Policy Reduce Infant Mortality? Evidence from the Ganga Pollution Cases". A simplified form of their models that ...
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### Splitting GDP between population

When looking at the average incomes in a country it is necessary to distinguish between mean income and median income. Mean income tends to be distorted by high earners, so typically median income is ...
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### Any difference between the DWL results from tax and binding price ceiling, what makes govenment choose one over another?

Same as the title. From the Graphs, I cannot see any difference or what makes policymakers to distinguished those two? Here is the capture from Perloff's textbook. Now compare this with the case that ...
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### Black Market Resilience

In many countries drugs like marijuana are being increasingly legalized or at least decriminalized. In such circumstances, you would expect the previously illegal or bootleg marijuana producers to ...
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### Why supply is more elastic at lower prices and more inelastic at higher prices?

In my economics book*, in the lesson explaining what price elasticity of supply is, it's written: In reality, supply curves are likely to be non-linear, so will have a different PES value at ...
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### Why do supply curves that start at the origin have a PES value of 1?

In my economics book*, in the lesson explaining what price elasticity of supply is, it's written: Any supply curve that starts at the origin has a PES value equal to 1. The theoretical outcome means ...
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### Deflating value series in currency A with CPI based on prices in currency B?

Say we have time series data on the annual value of imports in the UK from the US (in US dollars). Would it be appropriate to deflate the latter using the UK Consumer Price Index (which is based on ...
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### Why West Virginia is one of the least-vaccinated states in the country due to cash giveaway announcement?

In a newspaper, I saw the paragraph In some U.S. states that held lotteries for vaccine recipients, with some prizes reaching the million-dollar mark, leaders reported upticks in interest, but it’s ...
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### Curiousity the validity of an example of normative, positive and consumer surplus?

Following up a pretty long but very informative discussion with 1muflon1, I want to expand and merge with consumer surplus to have a big picture. In research of Dasgupta, 2019 about that after ...
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### Is there any overlap between Rawlsian approach and uncertainty avoidance?

From the definition of the Rawlsian approach The Rawlsian approach to social welfare, built on the foundation of the “veil of ignorance” (Rawls, 1999, p. 118) where "veil of ignorance" is ...
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### Is there any example to see the differences among Rawlsian ethics, Utilitarianism or (classical) liberalism ethics in policy economics?

From a decent answer and comment here of 1muflon1, I am motivated to know more about Rawlsian ethics, Utilitarianism, or (classical) liberalism ethics in policy economics. However, so far, I still not ...
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### Cash flow of a loan (perspective of a bank)

if you receive a loan from a bank, how does the cash flow of the bank look like? I found the following: https://fincomplete.com/ratgeber/artikel/wie-berechnet-die-bank-meine-kreditzinsen-2 (...
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### Synthetic Control Asymptotics

I'm aware of the basics of the synthetic control method, and that permutation tests are commonly used for inference. Are there papers that develop asymptotic theory? i.e. if the regression approach to ...
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### margins with option predict Stata 17

I used to run this code in Stata 15: ...
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### Do governments have to pay interest on government debt held by the central bank?

Through open market operations, the central bank may buy government debt to increase the money supply. Does the government need to pay interest on the debt held by the central bank, or does the debt ...
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### Asking for some research and application of Gini index in academic researches?

I am reading Gini index, which is a measure of the distribution of income across a population. It is often used as a gauge of economic inequality, measuring income distribution or, less commonly, ...
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### Large National Debt by borrowing money from foreign sources

I have a question about the greater severity of large national debt caused by borrowing from foreign sources. I am reading a book about elementary Economics and am currently on a chapter discussing ...
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### Will financial markets always heavily penalize the company if the CEO criticizes its products?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Elop#%22Burning_Platform%22_memo https://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2011/08/coining-term-elop-effect-when-you-combine-osborne-effect-and-ratner-effect....
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### Is cost for "discount for early payment" is opportunity cost?

Deloof (2003) states that On the other hand, late payment of invoices can be very costly if the firm is offered a discount for early payment. This sentence means that if the firm cannot pay back ...
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### What is the difference between money and currency?

Is money an intangible concept and currency a way to make it physically present? If not, then what is the difference?? Please dont duplicate it as i have read other answers and then asking.
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### Aggregate demand and Real GDP

I understand that aggregate demand is the demand for all goods and services in an economy. However, I later found out that aggregate demand and real GDP are calculated using the same formula, so does ...
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### The geometry of cities (reference request)

I am interested in reading up on the geometry of cities: what explains their ‘shape’ (e.g. why is the population often distributed in a rough circle)? I imagine that this is a question with some ...
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### My microeconomics question [closed]

What is the case in which consumer surplus decreases despite increasing demand? And in terms of supply, when certain conditions are met, is this more likely to happen?
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### Does this model of housing economy have a name, and if so, what are the common critiques?

I've been thinking about housing and the problem of rent recently and I came up with a simple idea that I'd like to explore further: what if renting a property transferred some ownership over time? ...

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