All Questions
- Why is an inverted yield curve a problem?
- Do Students Exhibit Rational Behavior in Determining Study Time?
- What are the effects of turning a backed currency into a fiat currency?
- How do economists quantify black market operations?
- Does immigration lead to unemployment
- Are there any open-source textbooks on economics freely available on the web?
- Are there examples of slow, steady deflation?
- What determines the shape of the demand curve?
- How reliable is Benford’s Law in forecasting crises?
- Better measurements than GDP?
- Can game theory explain grade inflation?
- What economic models could help us understand the consequences of an EU-wide Tobin tax?
- Could Greece default but keep the euro?
- What are the differences between the Austrian and Keynesian schools of economic thought?
- What are some of the options and consequences available to Greece?
- Does the financial system require different currencies to work properly?
- What are the important flaws and alternatives to the “Homo oeconomicus”?
- Are there any valuation models of securities that use hyperbolic discounting?
- Are there modern examples of a large-scale personal-debt cancellation being used to avoid a debt-deflation spiral?
- Why does the Greek debt crisis threaten the Eurozone?
- Are there modern examples of giffen goods?
- Why would returning to the gold standard be bad?
- Is Gresham’s Law relevant for modern online games that allow the use of real money as additional currency?
- Are there any long-run macro models with endogenous population growth, other than Malthus?
- What is the optimal policy response for a country experiencing a liquidity trap?
- What is growth theory academic frontier?
- Shouldn’t macroeconomists be interested in net additions/subtractions to national wealth?
- Solutions to the lack of code transparency in economics?
- What are the relevant properties of cardinal utility functions for defining a notion of expected utility for mixed strategies in games?
- Why does the cost of higher education outpace inflation?
- Game-theory strategies to overcome holdout problem?
- Why are capital gains taxed separately from income?
- How did gold and silver become money?
- Why does the marginal revenue curve slope downward at twice the rate of demand in a monopoly?
- How do Friedman and Bernanke’s explanations about the causes of the Great Depression compare?
- Multiple solutions for optimal policy with forward looking variables: How to make sense of this?
- What are the major philosophical, methodological, and terminological differences between econometrics and other statistical fields?
- Is physical gold inflation-proof?
- Why haven’t Shiller’s macro derivatives caught on with investors?
- Can misalignment in incentives within organisations be modelled using game theory?
- What’s the economics of legalising drugs?
- Why is economic growth so important?
- What mechanisms are available to prevent leakage from a localised carbon tax, within international law?
- How can we estimate a marginal price, when modelling a damage function in a system far from equilibrium?
- What were the tally sticks?
- What is the key academic literature on impact of capital gains tax policy on savings, investment, and output?
- What are useful indexes for rapid evaluation of country economic risk?
- Are large companies more profitable than small ones?
- Price adjustment mechanism for market clearing in Hansen’s (1985) Real Business Cycle model
- What have economists written about the recent rise in income inequality?
- Do Banks Cause Inflation? What are other possible causes?
- Does mandating that everyone have health insurance coverage lower public health care costs?
- What happens to aggregate demand curve when the weak axiom is invalid?
- What are good research tools for managing academic papers?
- What are some general economic principles that guide CEO pay?
- Using econometrics, how do I solve out the endogeneity problem?
- Does the empirical data show that Barro-Ricardian equivalence holds?
- Does making cars safer reduce deaths from traffic accidents?
- What are the key algorithms for learning optimal behavior of economic agents?
- Impact of short selling bans on financial markets
- Is Krugman’s analysis of the crisis being driven by a demand-slump widely supported academically?
- Why don’t countries only owe the difference in debt?
- Markov Perfect Equilibrium with Incomplete Information
- What are the differences between the various schools of economic thought?
- What are the empirical effects of individual marginal tax rates on individual income growth?
- How does the perfect competition model break down when one of the six assumptions is lost?
- How can you limit excessive risk-taking at the institutional level?
- What is Keynes’s “involuntary unemployment” - what distinguishes it from voluntary and frictional unemployment?
- How do reserve banks influence home-loan interest rates?
- Can one understand Stack Exchange sites if looking at them as markets?
- Does it make sense to “cluster” when you use a regression discontinuity?
- Why would a monopolist never produce at the inelastic part of the demand curve?
- What is a public good?
- Do “loss leaders” kill independent markets?
- Can someone explain Cremer-Mclean’s astonishing result in auction theory?
- Models of Changing Preferences
- Mechanism to auction off multiple resources given fixed budgets
- Advantages to exotic financial instruments and microsecond trading
- How are the maximum WTO tariff rates for countries determined?
- How carry trade affects exchange rates?
- Are recessions necessarily bad?
- Economy simulation software
- Does crowdsourcing collapse a labor market?
- What are the economic explanations for the United States health care system’s troubles?
- Would deflation of a currency with a fixed supply limit be damaging?
- Are there any currencies where the size of the monetary base is fixed or where changes are based on strict rules?
- How do models account for the existence of long-term and short-term utility functions?
- What standard findings of insurance economics are no longer valid with incomplete insurance/background risk?
- What criteria do governments typically use to decide on whether a particular merger should be allowed?
- Why does a freemium product not break the model?
- Long Run Average cost and equality between Short Run MC and Long Run MC
- Has there been any studies that examine the effects that the first 2 rounds of Quantitative Easing have had?
- What are the optimum currency areas in the current eurozone?
- What method are used to estimate the effects of an incentive?
- What have been the main drivers of increased productivity since 1950?
- Impact of financial transactions tax on savings, investment, or capital formation?
- How does a “swap line” between the U.S. Federal Reserve and a foreign central bank work? What risk does the Fed take on?
- Will the public outcry against bankers and CEOs result in them, perversely, getting higher salaries?
- What would happen if Germany left the euro?
- Are prostitution and marriage substitutes?
- Can measurements of GDP proxies of economic growth be cheated?
- Why can’t the government simply payoff everyone’s mortgage to resolve the housing crisis?
- Function that best describes intensity of human/(group of humans) emotions?
- Efficient market hypothesis and forecast
- Why is “free disposal” symbolized by -R+^L?
- Why do people buy US dollars on the black market?
- How can/does China manipulate its currency?
- What is the name for the area of economics that studies community responses to incentives?
- Short-term robots and long-term investors in the stock market
- What are the major causes of the Great Moderation?
- What is the Swing Voter’s Curse in voting theory?
- What do studies say about the length and causes of the innovation-adoption lag
- How can one calculate critical mass for this market?
- What is a good book for studying incentives?
- Higher interest rates and foreign investments
- What would be a good research agenda related to field experiments in development?
- What games let you experiment with changing economic incentives?
- How to get the data to reproduce a published result
- Does consumer theory depend on the utility function?
- Do Cobb-Douglas utility functions guarantee no corner solution?
- How does research in economics differ from that in other sciences?
- Micro-model of the real-money demand curve that produces a hockey stick LM curve
- How to understand relation between Swap rate and US Treasury rate?
- Are European Eductional Institutions Experiencing the Same Amount of Price Increases as American Schools?
- How May I Determine The Optimal Age At Which To Purchase A Car?
- How do we calculate what the perfect amount of debt is?
- TED Talk - sources that detail the effects of inequality on the upper-class’ well-being?
- When should one consider using GMM?
- How do micro-credit institutions make the borrowers pay back?
- Is the price per square meter generally higher for smaller apartments?
- Explanation of violations of covered interest parity in recent financial crisis
- Explanation of Skewness of a currency and interest rate differential in that country?
- Why are yield curves upward sloping? Shouldn’t they be flat?
- Why doesn’t Japan’s central bank simply print more Yen to intentionally devalue the currency?
- What will be the effect of the EUR/CHF cap on Swiss inflation?
- Can California afford a massive earthquake?
- Has Cowen’s ‘The Great Stagnation’ forced us to reconsider Schumpeter’s ‘Creative destruction’?
- Do monopolies encourage innovation?
- Why Central Bank of any country should be independent
- Which kind of taxes have the lowest deadweight loss?
- How can a country manipulate the inflation rate?
- Why do countries consider it important to pay back foreign debt that came from generations ago?
- Do country statistics make sense?
- Should monetary policy be eased if the government suddenly discovers a large amount of gold or other surprising good news?
- How much paper money should be printed?
- Incentives: punishment or reward
- Are tax buyouts a good idea?
- Cournot Nash Equilibrium Between Two Firms
- Asking for beginner textbooks
- The price of a coffee
- Will insufficient money supply slow down economic growth?
- Why doesn’t the central bank of a sovereign state print money to finance the state’s debt?
- What is the difference between MVPL and MRPL?
- How do micro-credit institutions make the borrowers pay back?
- How does the availability of financing affect price volatility?
- Are there alternatives to the “Letter of Credit” system?
- What is the most efficient way for the government to collect revenue?
- Does the share price for the manufacturer of an object already include expectation of technical advancement?
- Is there any research on “financial freedom”?
- Fixed effects models vs. models where years serve as instruments
- If you have a really big N, is using a regular vs. an m-n bootstrap ever a good idea?
- Is human capital underinvested in the developing world and if so, what are the costs?
- Are farmers doomed to be economically poor?
- What is a good text editor for using STATA for Mac?
- In structural econometrics, what is meant by “simulation variance”
- What is the interpretation of this statement about supply elasticity?
- What is the significance of the “residual maker” matrix?
- Choosing a profit-maximizing output given two markets
- Example of estimation vs. calibration
- What do economists say about the fact that employers seem to have a huge advantage when it comes to filling jobs as opposed to job seekers
- How are interest rates for US Treasuries determined?
- Is there scientific consensus on the case of Easter Island?
- What are the exact mechanics for foreign currency direct intervention?
- Labor vs. Capital Income distribution
- The effects of price-controlled tutor salaries
- Implication of a Federal Reserve balance sheet with negative equity?
- What is the ‘Basket of AAA Benchmark Bonds’ Italy’s 10 YR are being compared against?
- Are worries about US dollar hyper-inflation exaggerated?
- How to measure the multiplier effect of government spending
- What’s the most straight-forward way to prove Walras’s Law?
- Increased hdd prices due to Thailand floods: micro- or macroeconomic failure and solution?
- Theory of the firm
- Epstein-Zin Utility Function - why do macroeconomists love it?
- Are there any economics references for understanding “markets for favors?”
- How does the Central bank track cash?
- How does Supercomputing affect the economy?
- Social Entrepreneurship vs Commercial Entrepreneurship
- Where do EFSF’s profits go?
- What is the significance of the Germany bond auction failure?
- Case-Shiller real-estate index charts by region?
- Why is the price of industrial equipment obscured?
- Can money created by Quantitative Easing be destroyed?
- What is speculative demand? Can you give an example
- Does it make sense to support regional development?
- International commerce: main differences between theories of comparative and absolute advantage
- Application of the Factor–Price equalization theorem (Samuelson) on trade?
- Publicly available source of recent GDP data?
- How do you find the return of Treasuries?
- What determines the supply of US Treasuries
- How are imports good or bad for the economy of a country?
- Efficiency Criteria for Problems with variable Populations
- Why do real interest rates change?
- Understanding the Leontief inverse
- Why was Norway’s economic growth so slow in 2010?
- Is some information about a currency’s relative strength implied in their exchange rate?
- Can a country achieve economic growth with little or no inflation?
- Eurozone bailouts
- Which conditions could trigger a “gold confiscation act” in Europe?
- What does the supply curve actually represent?
- Conceptual question: How can we have a triple dividend with respect to the adoption of carbon or green taxes?
- Maximization of CARA utility function: unique solution with an unbounded parameter?
- How big a haircut to make public debt sustainable?
- What is the cause of increased public indebtedness
- What is the logic in ECB lending to Banks, which in turn lend to Countries?
- Is economic growth possible in a context of fiscal consolidation?
- Estimating risk parameters from observed choices
- What makes the stocks average value increase in the long run?
- A question on the travel cost valuation method
- A paradox with wages and prices in europe
- Is there a name for the locality of money’s fungibility?
- Unreasonably low prices in Germany?
- Change in parameter b of a demand curve, equilibrium profit and elasticity
- What Would Happen If A Futures Contract Went Unfilled?
- Estimating demand elasticity econometrically
- Should we expect depreciation of the Brazilian Real as a consequence of Brazil’s tax on financial transactions?
- What are the pros and cons of different techniques for estimating the monetary value of Natural Capital?
- What Backs WIR currency?
- Do we call it “consumer surplus”?
- How can I reconcile these two different equations for “Arc Elasticity”?
- Discrepancy between market value and book value of a firm
- What did the Asian countries do that enabled growth while the countries of Africa have stagnated?
- Scale of differentiation from commodities to unique goods
- Examples of gold inflation and deflation
- Real wages vs economic growth
- How can we know what “final goods” are when calculating GDP?
- what is the term for the tendency for prices to be closely aligned at different sellers?
- How did Singapore harbour manage to develop and build the foundation of the city’s economic success?
- For what reasons is it the state who bails out banks, and not the central bank?
- Explaining negative real interest rate
- Cournot game and Bertrand game: Are they classes of game?
- Why did Treasuries yield plunge after USA was downgraded?
- How to model potential market?
- How can possible cartel building/existence be detected observing economical statistics?
- How to extract a set of values from a specific range of indexes
- Auctions for public goods
- Did the case of Easter Island trigger the start of economic research into sustainability?
- How do countries decide when to intervene in their floating currency?
- Why did the NASDAQ spike around year 2000, while the Dow and S&P 500 did not?
- optimal Fed Funds rate assuming Taylor Rule?
- Is there a Federal Reserve equivalent for the euro?
- Effect of (following) government law popcorn prices in theatre
- Do governments, through their reliance on debt, end up transferring wealth from the working to the wealthy?
- What is the benefit of the super rich in an economy?
- Real vs Reported Inflation
- How to show that Roy’s identity holds in the case of a monotonic increasing transformation?
- Was the sub-prime debt crisis precipitated by US Fair Housing Legislation?
- Data about the workforce
- How to read the ‘Economic Data’ tables of Economist Magazine with a better understanding?
- Why must Greece leave the eurozone if it defaults on its debt?
- What does ‘Other products’ stand for in the definiton of ‘The law of equal marginal utilities’?
- Can There Be “Pent Up Demand” Even When People Are Broke?
- How can I set up a general equilibrium model for a 2-commodity economy?
- How do differentiation on products improve prosperity
- How do I show decreasing absolute risk aversion?
- Should trucks be allowed to take over on the highway?
- Interest rates and bonds: What is their relation?
- Why does an increase in narrow money not eventually lead to an increase in broad money?
- Heckscher–Ohlin model without two (homogeneous) factors of production
- OLS regressions and total derivative of y
- What is the difference between human capital premium and labor income risk?
- Is there an implicit function theorem for the 2nd derivative?
- Disaggregated Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) Data for Direct Investment
- How to find the minimum variance portfolio?
- Why Unemployment Rate and Layoff Rate are not synced anymore?
- Compatibility of economics and physics?
- Why must a preference relation for an agent be over a set of alternatives for which they can choose from instead of any set?
- Monopolist behaviour
- Vector AutoRegression - Number of Variables to Use
- Should Compulsory Contributions into Superannuation be increased to 12%?
- Is functional integration useful in theoretical economics?
- Quantity discount model anomaly
- what is behind a (eg 10) euros bill/banknote?
- How to measure competitiveness without conducting a survey?
- Can we determine the optimal redistribution of wealth in an economy?
- Find the MIT Motivation Study (Dan Pink cites)
- Marking up cost price via “selling price basis” - is this sensible?
- What are the key differences between Keynesian and New Keynesian models?
- What Happened In Year 2000 That Caused US and Canadian Productivity To Diverge?
- How to estimate the exchange rate of two currencies?
- Mathematical formalism for the economics of traffic flow
- Would it make sense to do a 2SLS regression for Nominal GDP and Money Supply?
- Difference-in-difference estimator (panel data)
- Would Adding A National Holiday Raise Employment?
- What result would a China recession have on the global economy?
- Best program for producing economics graphs on Linux?
- Simulation in economics
- Definition of factor reward?
- Re-indexing historical federal budget data: which indexes?
- What is the reason why we use natural logarithm (ln) rather than log to base 10 in specifying function in econometrics?
- What is the difference between oil futures contracts?
- Regressing price on volume
- How can I explain and evaluate the differences between conflicting cost of living comparisons?
- How do American companies’ production get counted in trade balances?
- Is there a Eurozone equivalent of the CRSP value-weighted index?
- Why is fundraising eating up a large part of funds in nonprofit NPO?
- Are there any publicly-available datasets from motor-insurance companies with car accident data?
- Better to make $999,999 to avoid the higher tax rate if made over one million dollars?
- Long run equilibrium of perfect competition when firms are making losses in the short run?
- In the last 50 years how much has the hi-tech industry contributed annually to the GDP of the United States?
- Recommended textbook for an analytical introduction to economics?
- What is the likely affect of the recent RBI reduction of the benchmark interest rate?
- What is the different between profits, revenue, and turnover and income?
- How do markets price negative, and ubiquitous, externalities which have zero market value?
- Construction Economics - Compounding discounting
- Calculate Interest rate on debt
- Currency of the future
- Countries going bankrupt
- Trade balance with export credits
- Given supply and demand curves, and a tax, how can I find the tax burdens and revenue?
- What is the difference between ‘Current-Account-Balance’ and ‘Budget Balance’?
- What happens with a country’s economy if it’s entering into a war?
- If the U.S. dropped the minimum wage law, would jobs move back from China?
- Is Colonialism counted as one of the causes of Outsourcing?
- How companies can reduce national debt and poverty if they increase sales?
- Income Elasticity and Goods?
- Transaction demand and speculative demand for money, and the LM curve
- What was the economic impact of WW1 on USA’s economy?
- Implications of Homo economicus in hierarchical organizations
- How strong is the evidence to support technical analysis in price prediction?
- What would be the effects of a negative official interest rate?
- Which legal aspects are directly affected by the decision of rating agencies concerning countries’ sovereign debt?
- How could one estimate the critical mass for a StackExchange “market”?
- Has spectrum analysis ever been used successfully to analyse historical price data
- What is the best method to predict US initial claim for unemployment?
- Will austerity slowdown recovery?
- What is the most reliable online resource to see a list of companies and their values?
- Historical Recession Data
- In the Translog specification, why is the trend specified as $t$ rather than $ln(t)$ [natural log(t)]?
- How much more or less income tax revenue would the United States make if everyone filed single (rather than married)?
- What are some examples of structural unemployment in today’s economy?
- Education economics recommended reads
- Does accelerating depreciation reduce the amount of revenue the government takes in?
- What can be deduced from the per capita debt of a government?
- price, demand, market equilibrium
- Nash equilibria of mixed strategies
- reallocating goods in an edgeworth-box
- What are some arguments against “growing wealthier, unequally?”
- Forecasting of Oil Prices
- How to make real wages increase/decrease?
- For the Phillips Curve, what is the definition of trend output (ie. $Y_t$)?
- How to derive the offer curves for two different types of consumers?
- How to model commodity currency exchange rate?
- Do Commodity Prices Still Depend On Supply And Demand?
- Land trading model
- Why might fixed mortage rates go up while swap rates are going down?
- Why would leaving the Euro cause a bank run?
- Marginal cost and benefit
- US Federal Budget - Mandatory v. Discretionary Spending
- Leverage United States has because U.S. dollar is worlds reserve currency
- Econometrics and Demography
- Sensical interpretation of Yield to Maturity
- Good video lectures for learning graduate-level econometrics
- This is about a differentiating problem, see details in main box
- What is a good example of expressive voting, and what is the economic theory behind it?
- Finding the optimal cost function from an “unusual” implicit production function
- Intuitive explanation of the slope of an isoquant that is smooth and convex to the origin
- What are some good books on the history of economic thought?
- How to hypothesis test a fraction of two coefficients?
- Why is cutting spending in a recession considered pro-cyclical?
- liquidity preference function
- Why did Iceland choose to bail out its banks
- Price of an (unwanted) asset?
- In supply and demand, how do you calculate what the demand is?
- Difference in price between two otherwise identical securities
- Who pays the deficit of a central bank?
- Historically, what is the US equity risk premium including data on the financial crisis and recovery?
- Where do the inflation come from?
- Pareto distribution of incomes
- What is the “least circulated” independent currency in the world?
- Calculate a discount rate given a PV at some point in the future
- Multiplier Effect
- What does “more likely to be disbelievers” mean in this article?
- A specific term for a product/service that generates more money than it’s sale price?
- Would cutting fuel duty create economic growth in the UK?
- Money as Debt, Wizard of Oz, citation needed
- Money speculation
- What defines a critical mark in metal prices?
- Is the appearance of local currencies in distinct regions increasing?
- What makes people pay certain amount for company shares
- How is Insider Trading Tracked?
- How can I calculate changes to total revenue over an interval, given the point elasticity of demand?
- How much do cashier employees cost their employer, on top of their direct salary costs?
- How do economist reconcile consensual crime with homo economicus?
- why are low interest rates set by the fed bad for the economy?
- How much (lively circulating) money exists?
- How do I calculate a firm’s age in panel data in STATA?
- Finding N and R-Squared in Multiple linear regression model
- Is infinitely divisible fixed quantity currency affectable by hoarding?
- Are U.S. Students Getting Their Money’s Worth?
- Why do american kids sell gum at school?
- How can currency exist, why people do value money?
- What conventional (and wrong) wisdom about economics currently causes the most harm in international politics?
- Does marriage terms tend to kick out more desirable mates/males out of mating market for some beautiful women?
- Are german taxpayers good shepherds?
- What is the mathematical structure or object that represents the concept of money?
- Does country has utility function?
- How does sigmoid function of typical human utility function explain some experimental results?
- What is the “reserve” in Federal Reserve?
- Can prospect theory explains NLP reframing
- What does it mean by trying to achieve prosperity by taxing is like trying to lift a bucket?
- How are Student Loan defaults going to affect the US economy?