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### How to control for population in Difference-in-Difference?

Random example, but let's say I'm examining the effect of a health program on influenza cases in India. They just randomly start the program in 7 of the 29 states. I have data on the number of flu ...
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### Why is underpayment so prevalent? (23% of those who are 25 and are entitled to the UK's National Living Wage are underpaid!)?

Context: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/nov/27/one-in-four-uk-workers-covered-national-living-wage-underpaid-low-pay-commission Why is it that employers can seemingly get away without ...
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### Roosevelt’s Price Fixing in The Great Depression

Why didn’t Roosevelt’s method of fixing prices on labour and produce help the depression? If everyone was receiving a wage that allowed them to afford produce, wouldn’t that create a new equilibrium ...
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### Comparing relative change for different base value

I need to compare change in employment size for a sample of companies. I could use percentage change, however, the problem with it is that when the base is small, a small absolute change result in a ...
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### Cleaning data for DSGE model estimation: An and Schorfheide (2007)

In Herbst and Schorfheide "Bayesian Estimation of DSGE Models", in the appendix named "Data Sources", they show several formulas relating the empirical data which should be used for the model. Here's ...
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### What are the linearised equations for the flexible economy in Smets and Wouters (2007)?

To solve the Smets and Wouters (2007) model, we need the linearised equation for the economy when wages and prices are flexible (monetary policy rule depends on the potential output). However, in ...
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### How to deal with potential output in the Sims (2002) framework?

In Sims(2002), the author explains how one solves a linear rational expectations model. $$\Gamma_0S_t=\Gamma_1S_{t-1}+C+\Psi z_t + \Pi \mu_t$$ The only thing exogenously defined in the $z_t$ ...
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### Government efforts in tacking the food crisis

I am a student taking H2 economics at the 'A' levels. Recently, in one of our case study questions in one of the tutorials on the price mechanism and its applications, we covered the food crisis. As I ...
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### Dornbush model - relationship between i and S

In the Dornbush model, when we separate short and long run equilibrium. This is what I apparently have understood: SR1: an increase in Money Supply ($M_s$) leads to a fall in domestic interest rates (...
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### Meaning of Transversality Conditions in Ramsey Problem

I'm working on a Ramsey problem for taxation, and am a little confused on the meaning/intuition behind the transversality conditions below: $\lim_{T \to \infty} \lambda_T b_{T+1} = 0$ \$\lim_{T \to ...