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Challenges in front of Infrastructure Projects in India

India infrastructure: big ambitions, big potential, big money, little happening. This is what I feel, sums up, what's happening in the Indian infrastructure sector. Government's extended enthusiasm about the sector hasn't been able to get the big infrastructure projects moving. There are lot of PPP projects coming up but what's going wrong? Many Infrastructure and Power shares are seeing constant ups and downs in the market. What is keeping the big money away? Surely the private investor is upbe… Continue

Added by Bhasker Siddharth on November 16, 2009 at 2:00pm — No Comments

“Price-Matching” – Are You a Free Spy for the Competitors?

As the Christmas Holidays are approaching, the competition for customers is becoming more intense and prevalent - if nothing else would persuade people to shop until they drop then at least the “price-matching” clause should prevail against the competitors. Thus, buyer, be aware of unpaid labor you are providing to corporations on this tough labor market. The ecstatic consumers will be actively haggling with Customer Service without realizing how they are actually working as free market-spies fo… Continue

Added by Haly Laasme on October 27, 2009 at 4:41pm — No Comments

Front Row Seats in the Market Competition.

If you live in Cumberland County, New Jersey, Upper Deerfield Township area, it is possible that you have noticed a novel local resident – materialization of the Theory of Industrial Organization. With the recent tenant, Aldi, the preconditions for the price war have been realized and the battle is on! First arrived Acme, then came ShopRite, some years ago opened Wal-Mart and now entered Aldi to already overcrowded local market. Upper Deerfield Township is a rural area with about 8000 inhabitant… Continue

Added by Haly Laasme on October 7, 2009 at 2:06am — No Comments

Role of Fiscal and Monetary policy: American context (Part 2)

Welcome to part 2. (Click here to read the first part) I will begin this part with the modern panacea for recession. Loosen monetary policy, let your currency depreciate boost your export and plough back out of recession. This looks efficient as well as effective in most cases. Although the sanity of increasing liquidity in the market was not suggested to the Asian tigers or the Argentinean government during the crisis, still it is now a well established fact to do so in order to fight recessio… Continue

Added by Bhasker Siddharth on September 22, 2009 at 2:49pm — No Comments

Role of Fiscal and Monetary policy: American context (Part 1)

I started off with the aim of exploring recessionary economics. I wanted to find out the different ways in which a recession is triggered and steps which can lead a nation out of it. But as I spent more time on it, the length and complexity of the scenarios to be considered kept increasing. I wanted to present a simple model which can explain different kinds of recession and give a clear picture of the phenomena which everybody can understand. But as I said earlier it’s now taking too much time.… Continue

Added by Bhasker Siddharth on September 22, 2009 at 2:47pm — No Comments

The Economic Impact Of Healthcare Reform

Consider this a question for the experts. What will the impact be of the new taxpayer funded Medical insurance healthcare reform plan be on the economy? I have talked to several small business owners and most of them are giddy about the idea. They think they will save a lot on employee benefits, making it easier on them to run their business. I have also spoken to several people who have said they will now be able… Continue

Added by Pat Jewett on September 18, 2009 at 3:06am — No Comments

a. Assume that the market price is established by the following equations: Supply Curve: P = 10 - 2Q…

a. Assume that the market price is established by the following equations: Supply Curve: P = 10 - 2Q + 0.15Q2 Demand Curve: P = 14.6 - 0.8Q Where P is price and Q is Quantity of output of a particular commodity. Assume also that a particular firm is operating under perfect competition and that its cost and revenue functions are: TC = 10Q – Q2 + 0.05Q3 TR = PQ Where TC is total cost, TR is total revenue and P is price. i. Find the market price for this commodity in question. ii. Draw the tota… Continue

Added by mimie on September 9, 2009 at 4:26am — No Comments

Stocks, Gold or Treasuries?

Hey frns... I see this question popping up quite a bit more frequently now as compared to couple of months back. Perhpas the liquidity boost given by central banks have started to reach the pockets of individuals. Well I believe that the excess liquidity in the market will surely ensure low returns from treasuries. How about gold and stocks... excess liquidty can chase either of the two... Below is my take on the situation... We are still not out of the recession... at this unpredictable jun… Continue

Added by Bhasker Siddharth on September 6, 2009 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Benefits of Traffic Light Cameras

As a traffic cop, I’ve seen quite a few automobile accidents involving cars speeding through red lights. So when our police department was charged with the task to study the feasibility of using traffic cameras, I was all for it. Studies have shown that the red-light cameras act as a deterrent and the rate of accident due to people running red lights were reduced by as much as 30%. That is a significant improvement. Imagine the number of lives that these cameras have saved. Red-light cameras c… Continue

Added by Dan Berecko on September 2, 2009 at 2:46pm — No Comments

GOOGLE-MICROSOFT: My Blog Post #2

In the first year after I retired from FT work, July 1999 to July 2000, Google officially became the world's largest search engine. With its introduction of a billion-page index by June 2000 much of the internet's content became available in a searchable format at one search engine. In the next several years, 2000-2005, as I was retiring from PT work as well as casual and most volunteer activity that had occupied me for decades, Google entered into a series of partnerships and made a series of i… Continue

Added by RonPrice on August 25, 2009 at 12:59pm — No Comments

American recession fuelling domestic inflation?

American economy is influencing the world economy as never before and particularly the Asian developing nations which are increasingly becoming dependent on GDP growth fuelled by $ based trading. The present American recession pushed the US interest rate down to almost zero. However, the crisis didn't require similar cut back in interest rates for other economies. Though we saw strong measures to increase liquidity in developing nations. Why were the interest rates cut down so much and increased… Continue

Added by Bhasker Siddharth on August 24, 2009 at 10:58am — No Comments

What to blame for the present economic crisis?

It's an interesting question, specially because everybdy wants an answer and has an answer as well to this query. I would not put the blame on Financial innovation or American politics or Greed or Real estate crisis, etc etc... What we receive is often a result of what we choose, and we have chosen to follow a "similar to" free market economy model. Not a wrong choice but surely it comes with an inherent characteristic named *swing* which is responsible for 'almost cyclical' booms and bursts in… Continue

Added by Bhasker Siddharth on August 24, 2009 at 10:52am — No Comments

National Seminar On Means and Strategies for Livelihood of the Subalterns

About the Seminar After air and water, livelihood is the most important thing for the survival of a human being. The topic of the seminar “Means and Strategies for livelihood of the subalterns” is most relevant by its nature and significance to all the walks of life. Hence, it is a topic of interest for the scholars of different streams of knowledge like Sociology, Social Work, Economics, Political Science, Public Administration, Home science, Textile Design, Management, Commerce, etc. Th… Continue

Added by Dr. H.M. Kothri on August 17, 2009 at 2:30am — No Comments

Singapore Q2 GDP Rockets UP 20.7 Per Cent - Is The Boom Back?

Singapore Q2 GDP Rockets UP 20.7 Per Cent - Is The Boom Back? Continue

Added by Keith Timimi on August 13, 2009 at 8:17am — No Comments

Description #1 of My Blog

My literary activity on the world-wide-web is a personal and quite industrious enterprize. When I can find the time, I am engaged in creating across this global internet a tapestry or a jig-saw puzzle of poetry and prose. At this site, readers will find one of my many journals, diaries or blogs. These various terms are used by various internet sites for a series of posts by one writer/author. The series of posts at this site is one of the many parts of this tapestry of prose and poetry I refer t… Continue

Added by RonPrice on August 11, 2009 at 4:21am — No Comments

Who saw?

A paper made available to Steve Keen's colleagues in 2004. Real Estate, Banking & Business Cycles Recently KPMG released its 1994 Financial Institutions Performance Survey with controversial commentary on how high volumes of loans for housing and property development can stifle lending to other sectors. Now we compound our sins by arguing that major economic cycles are primarily caused by property cycles, a subject on which very little economic analysis has been conducted. We offer insigh… Continue

Added by Andrew Boughton on July 19, 2009 at 10:16pm — No Comments

Middle East and North African Region - Need Help

Hi everybody! I am writing my Diploma-Thesis "Multilateral Economic Integration versus Regional Economic Integration? - The MENA -Region" and I need some help concerning the empirical part of the thesis. The first part of my work is dedicated to theoretical questions like "What is economic integration?", "What forms or levels of integration do exist?", "What are the causes and effects of economic integration?" and so on... In the empirical part I want to analyse the Middle East and North Afric… Continue

Added by Peter Pan on July 14, 2009 at 12:08pm — 1 Comment

NEW MEMBER

Hello Everybody I am a new member here a Student of economics 200L can anyone help me out about how to build a perfect career in economics and also recommend some text books for me. Basically I have problem in understanding economics mathematics can anyone also help me out on this Thank u Kudos Babington Continue

Added by kudos Babington on July 2, 2009 at 5:11pm — 4 Comments

any thoughts on the efficient-market hypothesis?

I've been subscribing to the Financial Times the past couple of years because its a refuge from all the typical noise that typifies tabloids (for example when I get my FT delivered tomorrow morning I'm pretty sure it won't have a picture or headline of farrah fawcett or michael jackson). Anyway one thing that caught my eye in the FT the other day was an article about the death so to speak, of the efficient-market hypothesis (EMH). Personally I never did believe in EMH, because I can't imagine p… Continue

Added by ben balanag on June 26, 2009 at 6:07am — 1 Comment

Flexicurity and European Unemployment

Interesting article about the use of "flexicurity" in European governments : http://www.mindreign.com/en/mindshare/Global-Economics/Flexicurity-and-European-Unemployment/sl35291137bp292cpp10pn1.html Continue

Added by Jim Tressor on June 24, 2009 at 5:07pm — No Comments

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