So the relevant question is this: How much will another $300K increase the movie’s revenues? Let’s suppose that, without the extra $300K, the movie would have grossed $49.9 million. The $300K infusion raises the take to $50 million. In that case, the $300K is a bad investment ...
The Trump administration argued in a subsequent motion that Mayorkas “failed, among other things, to evaluate the key statutory question: whether permitting Venezuelan and Haitian nationals to remain temporarily in the United States is ‘contrary to the national interest.’” An Obama-appointed judge...
“How did economists get it so wrong?”. Facing the financial crisis, this question was brilliantly articulated by the Nobel prize winner of 2008, Paul Krugman, in the New York Times [2]. A number of prominent economists even sees a failure of academic economics [3]. Remarkably, the follo...
Not showing up for a class(an exam)not turning in the problem set/FXGame screenshot automatically gets you a zero for the relevant part of the grade unless there is a well documented medical excuse, in which case the weight of the missing part is spread over the remaining parts. Student...
4 The labour supply data is the response to a question about “usual” weekly hours. 5 We divide the observed data into groups according to weekly hours of work as: unemployed (UE), defined as usual hours are less than 10 and economic position (labour market status) coded as "searching ...
Either way, we do not want to model these views of the basic underlying “class struggle” explicitly, but instead want to focus on the consequences of this for the financial stocks that both firms and households hold. Thus, our approach is to assume that the firms use whatever (gross) pr...
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There would seem to be few important members of the class of rival, excludable, non-fictitious, non-essential, profane goods for which markets are appropriate according to Section 2.2.1. If markets are only good for television sets, roller skates, and massages, then they are hardly worthy ...
Pigouvian taxes are the imposition of “appropriate rates of tax on resources employed in uses that tend to be pushed too far and employing the proceeds to provide bounties, at “appropriate rates, on uses of the opposite class” [287] (p. 99); they connect in essence to the external ...
The main margin through which the SSP is designed to affect behavior is via increased job search effort by welfare recipients resulting from the time limitations and the financial incentives introduced by the program. Therefore, as in Pissarides (2000, Ch.5), we also introduce endogenous search ...