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Solow and Cobb-Douglas

Suppose in an economy the steady state level of GDP is 1443.376 and the steady state level of capital is 3007.032 Suppose aggregate demand function is given by the following: Y = 100K^(1/3)L^(2/3) ...
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Is there a reference that plots different countries' debt-to-GDP ratios over (long) times?

This old blog post has an interesting plot that demonstrates that the U.K.'s current debt-to-GDP ratio is significantly below its very-long-term (180-year) average. Is there a plot anywhere that ...
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What is the most rational thing that banking sector can do to squash cryptocurrency sector?

Given growing capitalisation of the cryptocurrency market on one hand and borderline infinite supplies of fiat on the other, what is the most rational thing that banking sector can do to defend their ...
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how calculate average price after sell some share?

I don't have idea why average price is high when i sell some share after average down. I bought some share several time. For example. first 3 share at 10 price. second brought 2share at 15 and then ...
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Is it better to calculate inflation rate using gap deflater whether based year is the first year or last year of our data?

if we wanna calculate inflation rate for years 1997 and 1998, there are 2 ways, first is set our base-year 1997 and according to my data it will be 0.39 and if we set the base-year 1998 the rate will ...
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I have wondered if economy experts have isolated when does reduce in purchasing power leads to deflation and when it leads to inflation. In a simple contemplation: If there is an economic ...
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Difference between Money and Currency

What is the difference between money and currency? 1.Is debit card money or currency ? 2.Inflation erodes purchasing power of money or currency?
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Is it possible that total virtual money i.e. total money in all bank account around the world can increase the total money produced by mankind?

I am not an expert of economics so please give advise me if I have committed any mistake. This question striked in my mind a few months ago, I tried to think on this question many times but I wasn't ...
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Is it possible that marginal cost is fixed but not equal to zero in the real world? Thanks

Is it possible that marginal cost is fixed but not equal to zero in the real world? I do know it has in textbooks or exam papers, etc (haha), but I think it's odd if it happans in the real world (eg. ...
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Proving that revealed preference relation is the only relation that is rational and rationalizes the choice structure

if a choice structure i) satisfies WARP and ii) includes all subsets of X (the grand set of alternatives) of up to three elements, then the revealed preference relation generated by it a) rationalizes ...
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Best reports / data sources on economics flows / trade between US & China?

curious for any suggestions on reports or data sources on trade and flows between the US and China? In addition, the impact that the current political frictions could potentially have moving forward ...
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Balanced Growth Path - Solow model without technological change

Hi all, I am having troubles with this easy assignment. In particular point (c) is taking a lot of my time and energies, I have already obtained the law of motion for capital per worker, and I got ...
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Identification strategy for measuring impact of employee turnover on project quality

I am seeking help with identification strategy for figuring out causal direction in the following context: There is a company where project managers (PM) rotate every 3-7 years across the country/...
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Central banking in Saudi Arabia

People say that central bank with autonomy is needed to avoid political business cycle but then how do we explain the existence of central bank in arab oil exporting countries like saudi arabia where ...
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Buying US stocks via Questrade. Currency Risk? : CanadianInvestor I don't use Questrade, but if you want to convert CAD to USD, the best moment is from Monday to Friday from 8:00am to 11:00am (EAST ...
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Stuck on optimal employment/capital stock homework

This is the original question below: A firm has current and future marginal productivity of capital given by MPK = 10,000 - 2K + N, and marginal productivity of labour given by MPN = 50 - 2N + K. real ...
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As far as I inderstand a liquidity trap occurs when increasing the money supply is not able to stimulate the economy because people prefer hoarding the cash rather then investing in debt securities ...
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How will economy find long-term equilibrium in AD-AS model in case of a negative supply shock?

Let's suppose that negative supply shock happened that affected SRAS, but not LRAS. Let's also assume that previously there was long-run equilibrium at point $A$. Due to negative supply shock SRAS ...
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Minimum requirements under basel 3

Why is it that banks are told to maintain 4.5% of CET1 and capital conservation buffer of 2.5% of CET1 instead of 7 % of CET1???
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Why can't I find masks for the corona virus?

Not an economist by far, just a layman, and that's a layman question. How is this possible that it's difficult to find mask for the Corona Virus? I have been several times to 7/11, boots, Watson, and ...
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What are examples for the phenomenon that more (or better) information makes everybody worse off?

More information is usually considered "better". Let's say a rational agent chooses optimally given his information on the circumstances of a particular decision problem. Then providing him with more ...
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Loans and advances and credit growth in banking sector

What is the difference between loan and advance ? Is credit creation same as lending?? What is the difference between loan and credit growth?
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Competitive equilibirium of max utility functions

Apologies in advance if my terms aren't exact, I'm learning "Mathmatical Economoics" in the hebrew language and some of the terms don't translate well. I was given the following question: Two ...
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How to derive this Hicksian Demand?

So I have this utility function where I need to find t expenditure minimizing value of x. Normally, I would get the marginal utility of goods x and y, but doing that in this case doesn't leave any ...
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Markets and the allocation of resources (people's time)

I'd like to learn more - on what's written on how market's allocate resources efficiently. Specifically with regards to people's time / labour through pricing. I heard an interview with an economist ...
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Given an MRS how to be better off [closed]

Let's assume we have 2 agent A and B. A has n good x and m good y and B has a good x and 2a good y. If we know their MRS's at their current bundles how can we offer them a trade that makes both of ...
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K in the Cobb Douglas function

I'm using the Cobb Douglas production function for a Mathematics investigation into how optimisation works in Economics. The assumption is that the firm require's only one type of capital, that is, a ...
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What is the best observable proxy for the instantaneous risk-free market interest rate?

I am exploring a number of different models using daily data, of the US economy, and am trying to gather up observable proxies for some of the most important macro and micro variables, and surveying ...
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Does Nine-dimensional Euclidean space has any use in Economics or Econometrics? [closed]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine-dimensional_space i am looking for any application of nine-dimensional space in economics or econometrics. Thanks !
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Questions about merger simulation with logit demand

I'm trying to learn how to do merger simulation with logit demand. I think I get the concept of it and most of the math, but I'm struggling to put everything together and see how you would actually ...
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Why doesn't capitalism run out of money?

There's this question that doesn't let me sleep at night... From what I hear, investing surplus money is always considered a good idea because it lets your money "work for you" and earn you more ...
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NIPA sectoral balances, understanding influences on household sector

we know that the private sector balance = S-I = Y-C-T-I lets split it into 3 sectors: Households, Firms, and Banks. Suppose that that the HH balance equals +100 so far into the period. Q1) Then, a ...
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Is there a reproducibility crisis in Economics?

I am an undergraduate economics student, and came across this paper by John Ionnadis on 'The Power of Bias in Economics Research'. the findings are quite bleak. https://academic.oup.com/ej/article/...