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### If petrol/gas prices were locked down, how would normal consumers and the producers be affected?

Hey economics stack exchange! Congrats on getting to beta! I wanted to ask a question that was running through my head on a road trip earlier today. Let's say a magic fairy grants a person his wish, ...
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I'm a college student; for my thesis I need some statistics about international classical music tourism. I need some data about how big international classical music tourism is in terms of spending ...
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### Zero Economic Profit and opportunity cost?

In microeconomics textbook, there is always this notion of zero economic profit in perfect competition. We know that when people gets negative economic profit, they often leave the market. What I ...
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### ln(log) of energy consumption in a econometric analysis

i'm applying a panel data analysis. I have four variables; real GDP, trade openness, energy price and energy consumption. I took ln (log)of trade openness,real GDP and energy price. but i cannot ...
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### Gold Prices and Terrorism

With the Federal Reserve set to review interest rates next month, the price of gold may very well drop if they increase it. But with the current prevalence of terrorism and insecurity, is the price of ...
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### Principal Agent Question Private Benefit

If an agent can take action which impacts social welfare in a noisy way, the private net benefit of the action is $P(x,t)=x-s(\frac{x^2}{2} + t)$, $s$ is $(0,1)$ How can I determine the privately ...
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### Does the Samuelson condition assume all the prices for the private goods are the same?

Suppose I have two agents with utility functions $U_i$ and $U_j$ and budgets $p_x x + p_g g = m_i$ and $p_y y + p_g g = m_j$. If I solve a social planner UMP, I will get for my g FOC (after plugging ...
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### Is America getting to a point where there are many more people than jobs or money to go around? Are times better or worse than 50 years ago? [closed]

Is America headed to a point of too many people, not enough work? Is life for an average American better than 50 years ago? I have asked about automation in my first question. Then I've asked a ...
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### GDP to employed people ration - solow swan model

Two countries A and B have identical production function $Y=AK^{1/3}N^{2/3}$, they are identical when it comes to all other factors with the exception that savings rate is $s_A>s_B$. a) What is the ...
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### Sraffa's Model of Price Determination in a Subsistence, Circulating Capital Economy

This question is prompted by reflection on the opening of Sraffa (1960), pp 3-4 in the Indian edition linked here. Sraffa presents a simple model of a subsistence, circulating capital economy (an ...
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### How can increasing debt boost potential returns?

May 26 2020. Why Even Carl Icahn Couldn't Save Hertz From Chapter 11 - Bloomberg Hertz’s debt binge began when it was acquired by private equity firms from Ford Motor Co. in 2005; the new owners ...