http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/
the nobel prize lectures are good places to start as they involve the academics themselves explaining the ideas, where they came from, what went before/after and how they fit into the overal...
i've never looked at it formally but i'd imagine so.
if you think of agriculture or car/steel production they are subsidised in many nations as well as operating under tariff protection. it is plausible to envisage a firm in a particular industry...
This paper might be helpful, as it weighs in on the simpler question of 'should they join' -
Frankel, Jeffrey, 2008. "Should Eastern European Countries Join the Euro? A Review and Update of Trade Estimates and Consideration of Endogenous OCA Crit...
You'd use the following formula - % change in quantity of houses supplied / % change in house prices
I guess you'd pick a time period (probably a year or a month - which will most likely be dictated by the data you can obtain). Then you'd calcula...
i studied CEO pay as part of a general lecture on incentive pay. tournament theory basically states that the CEO's pay is the 'prize' in a tournament (i.e. a firm), and that if promotion is realistic/feasible then the CEO's large wage will act as ...
well coming from a country that has a big agricultural sector and wanting to use your knowledge to improve the workings of the sector is a good reason to study a module. knowing that I would have definitely recommended agricultural economics. from...
well one point may be that some people get pensions through their employers. empirical evidence for the UK shows that certain ethnic minority groups have lower rates of employment, higher rates of unemployment/inactivity. This may mean that all ot...