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I am thinking through the parallels between military and business strategy but am stuck on a foundational aspect. Most of business strategy results from some kind of competition in order to gain ...
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### public good contribution game theory

Public Good Contribution: Three players live in a town, and each can choose to contribute to fund a streetlamp. The value of having the streetlamp is 3 for each player, and the value of not having it ...
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### Equivalent Variation of Price Change

If Bernice (whose utility function is min {x; y} where x is her consumption of earrings and y is money left for other stuff ) had an income of \$12 and was paying a price of \$3 for earrings when the ...
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### Do carbon taxes in place today apply to carbon embedded in imports?

I’m giving the example of Sweden whose carbon tax is highly regarded and which is the highest in Europe. Source Sweden has a carbon tax of €110 / t. Source This tax does not apply to installations ...
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### How does locking down a country cause its economy to suffer?

As of time of writing, many countries have been in lockdown for weeks or months, and the economic data coming out of that is usually quite grim. I'm wondering how being in lockdown relates to poor ...
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### What would the price of carbon emissions need to be for the EU to achieve its objective to be carbon neutral by 2050?

The EU committed to net zero green house emissions by 2050. (Source) It is regularly said that the a carbon tax of USD 40-80 / t CO2e (USD 50-100 by 2030) would be sufficient to reach the Paris ...
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### Why is it assumed that savings are equal to investments in macroeconomics? [duplicate]

I mean that savings (all or partially) made by peope can be saved as hard cash (i.e. not in a bank, from where they could later be taken by business for development, i.e. for investment). So why is it ...
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### Is there a difference between settlement price vs market delivery price or are they the same thing?

I've been learning about Futures Contracts on Khan Academy (The finance related forum on there is quite old and no one has replied to my questions in the past) and the instructor has used the term "...
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### Subgame Perfect Nash Equilibria

The SPNE's are: ((Sexes,Fink,Movie),(Fink,Movie)) $\forall r\in [0,1]$ ((rSexes+(1-r)Dilemma,Fink,Ballet),(Fink,Ballet)) ((Dilemma,Fink,(3/4)Movie+(1/4)Ballet),(Fink,(1/4)M+(3/4)B)) I am totally ...
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### Size US Capital Account

I am not able to find the size of the capital account within the balance of payments for the US. Only "net" numbers, does anyone know the size of both sides of this account? They both seam to be ...
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### Governmental debt after COVID

Is there any well-researched studies published about the effect of increased governmental spending and later deepening debt burden due to COVID? Appreciate that the event is quite recent, but being ...
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### Difference between contract curve, core and pareto set

In a pure exchange economies, what is the intutive difference between the core and the contract curve as well as the pareto set?
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### Cost minimization of a production function

A firm produces output according to the production function, $q = L^{4/3}K^{1/2}$ and faces input prices equal to $w = \$20$and$r = \$80$. What is the minimum cost of producing 1140 units of output? ...
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### What estimation method is best to conduct event study on non standard monetary policy?

I have collected bond yield data from 01/01/2008:31/12/2019 for several euro-zone countries. I would like to conduct an event study analysis of the main Non standard measures announced by central ...
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### Does the investment component of GDP (demand side) identity include expenditures by the government and households?

In the identity GDP=C+I+G+(X-M) does "I" include expenditures by the government and households? For example, if a construction firm builds new residential properties and a household buys this ...
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### What is an economic crisis?

I'm not sure if this is a silly question or overly semantic but I think the term "Crisis" is misunderstood (or at least misunderstood by myself). There are a number of ways the term is used, namely: ...
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### Best response correspondences game theory

I'm studying game theory and there is a slide where I don't quite understand how exactly each value was deduced particularly: For $BR_L(q)$ and $BR_c(q)$. I understand why they are functions of $q$ ...
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### The number of observations in a time series [duplicate]

I have data from 2006m2 to 2018m9 on the annual inflation rate in in the UK, defined as 100 * $ln(\frac{p_{t}}{p_{t-12}})$. How many observations do I have? I have determined 141, since 156 months ...
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### What is the purpose of monetary expansion during an economic lockdown?

Recently, most developed countries central banks substantially lowered their base interest rate. In Australia, this is now at their stated lower bound of 0.25%. We also have QE. This is all in an ...
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### How to use if command in eviews?

I have run a regression on eviews and want to assess the results of just the males. IF: male = 1 would be the command but I'm not sure where to specify this. I thought it would be under estimate and ...