Has Okun's Law changed over time, with emphasis on the 2007 - 09 recession? Has Okun’s Law Changed over Time, with Emphasis on the 2007-09 Recession? By Fatma Abdel-Raouf, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Economics and Finance Goldey-Beacom College 4701 Limestone Road Wilmington, DE 19808 ...
An interview with Harvard University Professor of Economics, Sendhil Mullainathan, is presented. He talks about saving money as contained in his book with professor Eldar Shafir titled "Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Mea...
The NSS has a number of unusual attributes, and its impact upon the economy of Pakistan is not clear. Given Pakistan’s chronic difficulties with the public sector deficit, the NSS, which is a key instrument in financing that deficit, is of great importance. We use an econometric model to...
00:00 This single story reflects a fundamental weakness in our approach to improving health behavior. Nearly everything we tell doctors and everything we tell patients is based on the idea that we behave rationally. If you give me information, I will process that information in my hea...
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“They say science is quite hard. But I say if you put your mind to it, it’s quite easy.” Twelve-year-old Paisley Edwards is from the UK, and one of millions of girls across Europe taught science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) in school. ...
There are lots of reasons why plans don’t compete over the cost-effectiveness of their coverage. Doing so requires good evidence on how well therapies work, but that evidence is often lacking. Insurers lack the right incentives to develop the evidence on their own because other insurers will ...
Analysts believe Fitch's downgrading is an overestimation of the risks China faces and an under-estimation of its growth potential. In the realm of economics, confidence is more precious than gold. And the recent decision by Fitch Ratings appears to be a deliberate attempt to undermine that conf...
While there are plenty of holes in supply-side economics, it isn’t completely flawed, although its success can be hard to measure. It takes a long time to reap the benefits of these policies, and any good that comes from them may be attributed to something else. A lot also depends on...
Why Is Stagflation Bad? Stagflation is acombination of three negatives: slower economic growth, higher unemployment, and higher prices. This is a combination that isn't supposed to occur, in the logic of economics. Prices shouldn't go up when people have less money to spend. ...