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### Why is discriminating monopoly better than competitive markets for producers?

In intermediate economics by Hal Varian, It is said that discriminating monopoly is better than competitive markets for producers. Why so?
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### Falling Real Wages

Economist Lester Thurow said, "It used to be that if you were an American and relatively unskilled, you got an American premium, cause you'd work with more raw materials, better capital, better ...
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### Over What Ranges Can Elasticity Estimates Be Applied

I am reading the following paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1756-2171.12113 The paper attempts to estimate the elasticity of pharmaceutical innovation (measured by # of new ...
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### What are some currencies that are not pegged and fixed?

Are there any currencies that are not pegged to the dollar or euro and are purely fixed exchange rates?
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### Shouldn't national Stock Indices proportional to GDP of the country?

I was looking at Japan: Japan's GDP trajectory and Nikkei 225. It seems from 2011 - 2015 the GDP contracted but the Nikkei has gone up. Would there be a good explanation for this ?