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“Supply creates its own demand"

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Economist-oriented resources for coding style, project structuring, etc.?

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JOLTS methodology -- opportunity for input by 11/7/19

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Which statistics package should undergraduate econ students be taught?

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USTR Trade and Environment Policy Advisory Committee -- request for nominations

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Data lake and information architecture

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AER: Insights acceptable degree of set notation

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Is there a way to show that it would be bad if there was a sudden increase or decrease in the distribution of income?

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Basic question on calculating real GDP

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Why does economics not able to make a meaningful impact in most developing countries?

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Soundness of higher taxes on luxury goods

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BLS invites academic economists to seek funded Senior Research Fellowship

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Link between recession and decline in investments

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Financial constraints in recession is a demand or supply shock?

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Does GDP count both the investment and the house rental?

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BLS Technical Advisory Committee -- nominations of economists are invited

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American Time Use Survey (ATUS) -- value to economic research?

answered 2 months ago in General Economics Questions by Jan_H._Höffler (870 points)

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OSTP request for info on appropriate federal role supporting the "U.S. Bioeconomy"

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Should regression tables use * for significant coefficients?

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U.S. Export-Import Bank seeks input on economic impact methodology

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BEA Survey of New FDI in the US -- invitation to provide input

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What is the cheapest way I can get the mathematical training needed for a PhD in economics?

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CFTC Energy and Environmental Markets Advisory Committee -- request for nominations and input

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What are some dissertation-worthy topics in market design?

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BLS Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) proposed design 2020-2022 -- economist input invited

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Economic Advisory Council of Millenium Challenge Corporation -- call for nominations

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Which econometric software do you use to apply the Randomized Control Trial Method?

answered 4 months ago in General Economics Questions by Jan_H._Höffler (870 points)

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Panel or Cross Sectional datasets in Finance

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Is proprietary data the biggest threat to economic research credibility?

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Can we improve the process for electing AEA Officers?

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What's the standard output table format for logit model and multinomial model in top Economics journals?

answered 4 months ago in General Economics Questions by Jan_H._Höffler (870 points)

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Need News Article for Intermediate Macro Exam

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Would a sudden shift in investment expenditures or government expenditures do more harm then good?

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Please where can I possibly find recent and/or up-to-date dataset on ethnolinguistic fragmentalization?

answered 4 months ago in General Economics Questions by Jan_H._Höffler (870 points)

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Could the business cycle be from an underlying cause throughout history, such as shifts in the unemployment rate?

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Why might widely held corporations be averse to idiosyncratic risk?

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Could the stock market be going up over the long run as a result of demand-pull inflation on stocks?

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BEA's GDP by County Statistics -- Request for Comment

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Should we use the term "Groves Mechanism" instead of "Vickrey-Clarke-Groves Mechanism" or "VCG Mechanism"?

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