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### Convex transaction costs

Why do we assume convex transaction costs in theoretic models? What is the intuition and the strict definition of this assumption? Well, I have in mind the Glosten model in 1994. Neither he provides ...
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### Log-linear version of current account equation

I am working on my thesis, doing a two-country model with traded and non-traded goods considering incomplete asset markets and imperfect pass-through. In a sense, I am following Benigno & ...
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### Complementary slackness conditions (Kuhn-Tucker)

Consider the problem of maximising a smooth function subject to the inequality constraint that $g(x) \leq b$. The complementary slackness condition says that $$\lambda[g(x) - b] = 0$$ It is often ...
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### Why do Eurozone members have a commonly higher Debt-to-GDP ratio?

As you could find out from the map, among 22 countries whose debt-to-gdp ratio is above 50%, only 7 are not Eurozone members, and from which only UK is comparably large economical entity. ...
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### Who was the first to model sequential market equilibrium?

As a PhD student the standard macroecononomics education I have received (and continue to receive) revolves around the most realistic model of market structure ive seen to date, that being sequential ...
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### Is there a list of U.S. government regulations or actions that depend on government produced statistics?

I'm interested in compiling a list of government actions that depend on government produced figures. For example social security benefits depend on the CPI. I don't know if such a list already exists.
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### What is the economic meaning of multiple internal rates of return?

Recall that the internal rate of return (IRR) is the discount rate such that the net present value (NPV) of a project is 0. One interesting complexity of the internal rate of return (IRR) is that it ...
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### When does the interest rate parity curve shift?

Given the IS LM IRP model, can somebody tell me the difference for when there is a movement along the IRP curve and when there is an actual shift in the IRP curve?
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### Linearization of the dynamic system (I did it, but I have a mistake that I cannot catch. Help me please)

I have the following dynamic system in discrete time For p is price, d is demand and s is supply. $$p_{t+1}-p_t= a(d_t-s_t)$$ $$s_{t+1}-s_t=bp_ts_t-ws_t$$ $$d_t= k-gp_t$$ I have to linearize this ...
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### How to test if the effect of one regressor entirely comes from other regressors?

I have a regression model that includes IQ test scores as the dependent variable; my own education, my father's education and my mother's education as independent variables. Suppose I want to know ...
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### Linking creeping inflation to industrial revolution

The russian wiki on price revolution says Ползучая инфляция стала тем стимулом, который привёл в конечном итоге к промышленной революции, which translates to in the end result, the creeping inflation ...
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### Software used for solving demands of different functions

I'm currently doing some research on demand systems and have been experimenting with different underlying utility functions which will generate different systems of demands. However I've been doing ...
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### How to go from demand elasticities to a demand function? (merger simulation)

I am reading this paper: https://econpapers.repec.org/article/oupjleorg/v_3a10_3ay_3a1994_3ai_3a2_3ap_3a407-26.htm (Werden and Froeb 1994) about merger simulation. The paper is above my level, so I'...
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### Why would expanding fiat paper issue lead to decreased exports?

I'm reading "A History of Money and Banking in the United States" by Murray Rothbard, and I'm having trouble understanding this one piece of history. Basically, the Massachusetts government issues ...
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### Why are there no minimum wage entry level IT jobs

In the UK, I have not seen any graduate level IT jobs offering a starting salary below £20,000. At the same time, about 10% of computer science graduates are unemployed six months after graduation. ...
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### What's the advantage of DSGE relative to BVARs?

DSGE models and BVARs are commonly used in academia and policy circles. They generate different performances (e.g., in forecasting) and perhaps serve different purposes. Notwithstanding, they have a ...
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### Signaling in zero-sum games?

The foundation of this question is a bit vague (based on something overheard at a conference) but I'm hoping someone here can provide some clarification. I overheard a conversation between two ...
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### Neoclassical Economic Growth Model Shadow Price for Discrete vs Continuous Time

I recently learned about the neoclassical growth model in both discrete and continuous time. The intuitive meaning of the shadow price for both cases is that it represents the value of one additional ...
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### What is the privilege of a primary dealer?

Primary dealers have a privileged position, so there is value in being registered as a primary dealer. - https://economics.stackexchange.com/a/13450/8387 I was previously under the assumption that ...
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### Is there a widely accepted definition of “asset [price] inflation”?

A bit of googling found some conflicting ones... Capel and Houben (BIS) Asset inflation occurs when the prices of financial assets are rising even though they are already above their intrinsic or ...
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### Sen's property $\alpha$ holds when limited attention in choice?

Consider the limited attention choice framework by Matejka and McKay (2015). This framework can give rise to consideration sets, as roughly summarised below. Consideration sets in the limited ...
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### Calculating the amount paid for a loan in today's dollars

So I was trying to figure out the amount paid for a loan in today's dollars using two different methods but they give me different results. I was hoping that someone could explain which method is ...
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### Going from DRMs to Indirect Mechanisms

I have recently started studying mechanism design (after having taken a basic graduate micro course) through Borgers' 'Introduction to the theory of mechanism design'. I was wondering if people are ...
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### Simulating a simple economy with … price-makers? arriving at competitive equilibrium

I'm new to economics and thinking about graduate study. My background is mathematics. I started reading a book on microeconomics by Mas-Colell, Whinston and Green. My goal is to understand how ...
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### The Household Production Function

I was wondering whether someone can explain the household production function (HPF). Specifically, the variant presented in Patanayak et al (2005). The paper uses the HPF to determine household ...