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For questions that are not about formal economic or econometric models and techniques, their implementations using programs and languages or do not include references to, are not about data standards, or are not based on academic sources.
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What words should we normally use for x-axis in a economic or finance research paper?
I find "horizontal axis" better than x-axis, because it does not use the name of a potential variable.
However, I think your whole sentence focuses to much on what we see, and not on the actual phenom …
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Why'd the lender suffer the collateral haircut, not the borrower?
Why'd the lender suffer the collateral haircut
This is not an accurate way of describing what is happening. No one "suffered". The collateral was entered at lower than current market value, to a …
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Why the stock market went up when the currency being weakened?
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When the yen being weakened [...] "The automobile won more order as a result..."
and more orders made the automobile sector more profitable, hence the higher stock price.
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Asking for reference for the relationship between vaccine openness and education levels ( be...
You could search on Google Scholar and restrict the range to end in 2019, thus avoiding all Covid-19 related literature.
Some results for the range 1990-2019, keywords "vaccine openness education leve …
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Do students for economics study theory about no-money-economies and about no-interest-econom...
In mathematical models of economies (e.g., exchange economies), it is not necessary to include money. Prices do turn up as mathematical constructs ("shadow prices"). Modern economies have money to sim …
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Inflation adjustment different than halving
What the media means is heavily dependent on what media you are talking about, but the statistics agencies usually compute two price indices one year apart and compare these, thus they do not use dail …
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Difference between two different ways of adjusting for inflation daily given annual rate
Your graphs do not seem to match your explanation of the formulas.
Let us look at the formulas
$$x(t) = \frac{r}{365} \cdot \frac{t}{365}$$
$$FV(t) = PV(1 + x(t))^{years}$$
at the end of the period, …
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Question About The Optimal Quantity of Production I Don't Get
If you had to choose between
a. losing 20 dollars
b. losing 18 dollars
c. losing 16 dollars
would you be indifferent between b. and c. because they are both better than a.?
If yes, please contact me …
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What are some alternative words for "cartel"?
I don't think an exact synonym exists. There are words that describe a type of cartel.
You could use trust or combine, if the cartel is legal and known.
You could use syndicate in case of illicit cart …
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What does negative surprise mean?
(This is an English language question, not an economic one. Next time consider asking at English Language & Usage.)
A surprise is negative, if it is a bad surprise (for someone). In this context they …
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Why don't profitable firms use previous profits to offset current loss
It might make sense to cut the jobs as it looks like they will be operating at reduced capacity.
The article does not say that they could not keep on the workers and "smooth" their yearly losses and p …
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JNK and SPY price movements question
When JNK appeared on the market on Dec 04 2007 it started at approximately the same price level at SPY (143 vs 146). It is however not true that after this they moved together. I downloaded the price …
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Why do most function images take the form of a curve?
Your final line
This figure is only for representation.
pretty much answers your question.
When explaining these concepts you want to draw something that is easy to understand, i.e. does not have to …
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Was there any currency backed by other metals than gold, silver or copper?
Spartan iron coins.
Roman bronze coins: Aes Grave
Chinese bronze coins: Ban liang (one type was bronze, not all)
A non-metal "currency" backed by various industrial metals: the cryptocurrency Tiberius …
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Demand vs. demand schedule vs. quantity demanded
What is the difference between the concepts of demand, demand schedule and quantity demanded?
Can these be used interchangeably, and do any of them have multiple meanings in economics?
Also, is there …