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### Interpretation of Incidence Rate Ratio for a Poisson Regression With a Non-Binomial Dependent Variable

Well, the name pretty much says it all. I have searched high and low, but I cannot find a concrete answer to the following question(s): How would one interpret the incidence rate ratio for a poisson ...
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### How does Joseph Stiglitz and Greenwald explain why markets with imperfect information fail to have a pareto efficient equilibrium?

How does Joseph Stiglitz and Greenwald explain why markets with imperfect information fail to have a pareto efficient equilibrium? What premises do they use to come to that conclusion? For example, ...
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### Is utility function used in customer data/profile analysis? What alternatives in practice?

Utility function is great theoretical concept but is it used in customer data analysis or in building customer profile (e.g. from Big data or cash register/checkout data, ecommerce history) or in ...
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### Why does only relative price and not absolute price matter in international trade models?

Suppose I have two teachers: Adam and Bob. Suppose Adam takes 20 hours to lecture and 30 hours to grade, while Bob takes 100 hours to lecture and 60 hours to grade. In absolute terms, Adam is ...
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### Reducing the working hours to 32 hours / week - how much it would affect the prices of commodities?

If the working hours would be reduced from 40 hours / week to 32 hours / week (4 days x 8 hours instead of 5 days x 8 hours), but maintaining the wages at the same levels, then I guess that the price ...
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### Differentiating under integral sign, capital accumulation

I am reading a paper, the author takes the derivative of the following equation with respect to $t$: $$q(t) = \int_t^\infty e^{-r(s-t)}c(s)e^{-\delta(s-t)}ds$$ $q$ price of capital goods $r$ ...
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### How does the euro swap for Greek debt work?

As I understand it, some portion of the Greek sovereign debt has been converted into "Euro swaps". Can someone explain in simple terms what that means? What debt was given to whom?
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i have to do a business plan as an assignment in my computer science engineering school. I'm looking for help .. can anyone provides me with a complete template ? or an example to follow thanks,
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### Is it likely as automation continues to make more jobs obselete, starvation and poverty levels will rise very badly? [duplicate]

I wanted to know facts, thoughts and such since this article (which was big news that trended this week) popped up: http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/robot-may-take-your-job-next-few-years-n499556 ...
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### Is there a problem with Inflation-corrected real price?

Consider CPI and PPI, Consumer Price Index and Producer Price Index respectively. Note that many book correct inflation using the above measures. However, I doubt inflation corrected by these values ...
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### Bibliography International Macroeconomics/Finance

I'm looking for some bibliography for International Macroeconomics/Finance. Any suggestions? Any help would be appreciated.
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### Second derivative of Capital stock per unit of effective labour

Let $K=$capital, $L=$ labour, $A=$ knowledge or effectiveness of labour. And put $\mathcal{K} = K/AL$ the capital stock per unit of effective labour. If the following is negative  \displaystyle \...
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### Regression on default rates and backward extrapolation

Suppose that we have bankruptcy data representative for Small and Medium-sized enterprises in a country. We can therefore calculate default rates. Furthermore suppose that we found that GDP, ...
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### What is a Stock exchange? [closed]

What is a stock exchange, I understand that it is a place where one buys and sells shares but I would like to know in more detail.
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### Corporate Finance: From External Financing Needed(EFN) to Sustainable Growth Rate

Well in this link I get the EFN definition that I know of, with the spontaneous liabilities term included. I'm trying to derive the Sustainable Growth Rate for a corporation, from this definition of ...
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### Interpreting coefficient in the disutility function as disutility tolerance?

I am studying a model that relates incentives (money) and a set of actions. Let $f(x) = k\frac{x^2}{2}$ be the disutility function of the agent, where $x$ is the level of effort that the agent is ...
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### Optimal taxation and substitute commodities

Reading Ramsey's paper: a contribution to the theory of taxation. It says that when we are dealing with rival goods we look if the tax that is going to be applied leave unchanged the proportions in ...