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### Anything written on the process behind “multiplicative” production function?

Intuitively, one might make a naive first guess that the production function of the economy, or of a firm, should be a "leontief" production function: "for example, you need both a factory and a ...
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### Okun's law nominal GDP growth

Does Okun's law also work for nominal (not real) GDP growth?
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### What is the government's ideal rate of growth for property prices?

If property prices raise too quickly, it can price people out of the market, cause mortgage stress and financial hardship and create a property bubble. If property prices fall too quickly, it can be ...
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### Doesnt the fact that cash reserves go down in recessions contradict Keynesianism?

It seems cash reserve is procyclical. Also anyone have the financial cash reserve data?
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### What would be the economic effects of a reduction in the general level of protectionism on the Australian economy?

Protectionism methods including: tariffs, subsidies, quotas, local contents rules and export incentives Would would be the effects of a reduction of these methods, not complete free trade.
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### EMH: Difference between market price and fundamental value?

I am confused by the relation between stocks market prices and fundamental (or intrinsic) values stated by Efficient Market Hypothesis. How these deviates regarding to efficient market theory or are ...
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### Strictly increasing function transformation

I have utility function given by: $U(x_1, x_2) = \begin{cases} x_1+x_2 & \text{if$x_1+x_2<6$} \\ 6 & \text{if$6\...
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### Private Investment Impact on Bond Yields

From Japan to the US to Germany, we are currently seeing longer term bond yields falling at an alarming rate. I tune into a fair bit of economic commentary, and can often come to some sort of ...
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### How are the price signals of stocks in the stock market centralized?

We can look up the price of a stock, like that of Google, and it gives a particular figure. I would like to know how the price signal is "centralized". What I mean is: if the trades happen between ...
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### Marginal rate of substitution(yx) question

For utility function U= ln(x)+Y How do I determine if MRS(yx) is diminishing or not for this question? I got Mu(x)=1/x and Mu(y)= 1 MRS(yx)=Mu(y)/Mu(x)= 1/1/x = x Does this mean that MRS(yx) is ...
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### Budget lines and Indifference curves: How do you figure where exactly you should draw the IC tangent to a budget line?

In Consumer Choice, we frequently encounter budget lines and indifference curves. For a given budget line, the optimization point is at the point where the indifference curve is just tangent to the ...
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### Mixed Strategies — Does this lead to Nash equilibrium?

I have a simple payoff matrix defined here: https://prnt.sc/m6rp5m My question is: If both players play all 4 strategies with 1/4 probability, does that lead to nash equilibrium? I can't quite ...
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### Would taxing money owned (as a share of purchasing power) be a better form of taxation?

Consider a nation whose money is entirely digital (like Bitcoin), but centralized (unlike Bitcoin). Furthermore, the total money supply is fixed, i.e. money cannot be created nor destroyed. To be ...