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What are the economic benefits of SLAPP in file sharing/piracy?
Spin-off from Piracy/File sharing - Why aren't songs, movies or ebooks given for free (+ads) like TV?
What are the economic benefits of SLAPP in or out of file sharing/piracy?
There's a comment in above link that says 'The relevance is that the…
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DSGE models (Dynare) are only based on simulations and approximations? (without data)
I'm beginner in DSGE models. Are they only based on simulations and approximations? Don't we have any real data-sets (for example interest rate, labor force, etc) to estimate the equations? I opened some .Mod files and I can only see equations,…
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Does Dogecoin or Bitcoin have a more appropriate rate of monetary inflation?
The supply of new Bitcoins and Dogecoins is depicted in the graph below.
The Bitcoin inflation rate is currently higher than the Dogecoin rate, but it reduces sharply to a rate close to zero. It eventually reaches 0% in 2140, after which there will…
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How would Greece "temporarily" leave the Eurozone?
Amongst the negotiations between Greece and the Eurozone leaders, there currently exists the possibility of Greece leaving the Eurozone for five years.
Does this imply Greece would have to use a different currency for only the next five years?
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Is ongoing economic growth possible without additional non-renewable inputs?
Can ongoing economic growth occur without use of additional non-renewable inputs? That is, any additional inputs would only be from renewable resources: all non-renewable resources would be reused, recycled or removed from the economy.
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Why do money markets fluctuate so much?
Compared to commodity markets, money markets move a lot. My guess is that commodity markets are less elastic due to fixed production costs. But I don't know if that is the correct explanation.
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The Insane Sultan of Slickcrudistan: Calculating Currency Equilibrium
I work for a start-up that has encountered an economics problem no one on our team has been able to crack.
A story form and a general form of the problem are below. I believe they are equivalent, but if there is a difference, please defer to the…
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Why US market is falling due to greece fear?
I'm kind of curious to learn why US markets are falling due to Greece - Eurozone crisis. US had almost no exposure to Greece bonds and the fear of Grexit and the future of Euro has made the investors to pull out of the European market. But their…
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Have the Greek bailouts been included in state budgets Eurozone members?
A lot of people (mainly journalists and politicians) say that Eurozone taxpayers pay for the Greek bailouts. On the other hand, a lot of economists say that those money have not been added in the yearly state budgets of the Eurozone members because…
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Can anyone give me some reference on Mundell-Fleming model estimated empirically?
In virtually all texts of intermediate Macroeconomics$^1$ the Mundell-Fleming model is taught. But his estimate is not addressed in the classical texts of econometrics. I've always wanted to read some reference, but my searches have not worked
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If $a$ and $b$ are two pure rationalizable strategies, can $0.5a+0.5b$ fail to be a rationalizable strategy?
It is easy to see that if $\sigma$ is mixed rationalizable strategy, then a pure strategy $a$ such that $\sigma(a)>0$ is also rationalizable, but it seems not vice versa.
For a two-player finite game, let $P_1$ be the set of all pure rationalizable…
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Are there two different meanings of the discount rate?
Today I suddenly became aware of how the term "discount rate" are frequently used in two different contexts:
When people prefer to have something now rather than in the future. The reason is supposedly human psychology. The discount rate in this…
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Why should Greece destroy their cash euros?
Leading economists in my country (Sweden) recommend and predict that (in the case of default) the Greek government will destroy all the euro bills in the country. Making holes in them and stamp them to become drachmer which are maybe 80% or 90% less…
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How could Greece-related worries drive US stocks down about 2% in a day?
Major US stock indices are down ~2% on Jun 29, and it's mostly associated with investor's worries related to the Greece crisis.
I understand about possible "chain reaction" and that a lot of companies may be exposed indirectly to Greece debt.
But…
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Why shutdown the banks (Greece)?
What benefit is there to shutting down the banks in Greece? It seems that this would do more harm than good. Won't this impede economic growth by not allowing companies and startups access to capital? This, I believe, would cause the crisis to last…
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