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I studied PPE at Lady Margaret Hall college, Oxford University, and currently work as an Economics A Level teacher. I have also examined several different economic units for Edexcel AS and A2.
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Suppose a technological advance reduces the cost of making computers.
a. Draw a supply-and-demand diagram to show what happens to price, quantity, consumer surplus, and producer surplus in the market for computers.
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Im not quite sure on the concept of financial intermediaries, i want to know how they reduce infomation and transaction costs for the investor?? also does the financial intermediaries experience any downfall from this.. etc etc
am half way through writing a really long speech and the last segment of my speech will consist on this topic. Hence the help will be really appreciated by a few hundred people listening to this presentation including me.
Thank-You Very Much Economicshelp.org
Hi i just wanted to know your views on trade liberalisation and whether you believe it fuels economic development.
Trade liberalisation as a topic is quite difficult to explain and examine, so i also wanted to know if there are any Economic Models which can help explain this concept.
Thank you
I’ve recently been looking up on the Eurozone financial crisis for random reasons and i don’t understand the statement in an FT article about what we must acknowledge in order to overcome the Eurozone problems. The statement goes ‘no country can be expected to generate huge primary surpluses for long periods for the benefit of foreign creditors’. Please can you help?!
The link of the FT article of this quote is below.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/324f9054-b0a7-11e0-a5a7-00144feab49a.html#axzz2ChejBoKm
Who ‘loses’ when central banks expand their balance sheet extensively, via unlimited asset purchases, or write down their losses” e.g the recent BOJ losses, since the capital can easily be recreated again?
What are the benefits/disadvantages of growing ownership of central banks/government in the economy?
After the insightful post on ‘Italian Economic Decline’, I was particularly captured by the % debt to GDP line graph of the different developed countries. The one thing that really caught my eye was Japan’s huge % debt to GDP and yet their government bond yields are consistently declining. Aren’t the markets worried that Japan may default on their debt someday or is the fact that they have a lender of last resort (no fear of liquidity problems) unlike Italy and their 0% interest rates shielding them from augmenting yields?
Are there problems with the concept of trying to value co2 reduction?
What are the possible effects when a company puts itself up for sale?
Possible scenarios include intense competition, undervalued assets, declining profits/stagnant growth, liquidity issues.
How would shareholders/management/lenders/suppliers/clients respond?
Would there be a drop in business, lending halt, recruitment freeze etc?
I was reading on BBC News about the Brazilian president vetoing the part of the law to distribute the royalties gained from Brazil’s oil fields across the 26 states. I was wondering if you could explain what royalties are and why distributing them is such a bad thing from the perspective of the Brazilian government? Below is the link to the article:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20562691
Thank you!
I have one for you. Discuss Keynesian view and classical view (self-correcting mechanism) of a policy to help an economy recover from recession. Could you also use a AS/AD graph to support the answer as well as your personal opinion on which policy you think is appropriate and why?
Thanks!
Hi could you please discuss your views towards trade liberalisation and whether its good for economic development.
I will be presenting to group of colleagues of mine and its quite a compicated subject to discuss, so i would really appreciate your views on this topic.
Also could you suggest a “economic model” which i can possibly use to explain this topic.
Thank you
I’m currently reading ‘Crisis Economics’ at the moment and i don’t get some stuff in the book. When it was talking about the current account balance, the book referred to it as a balance between national savings and national investment, but i don’t quite understand this. Also, what’s the difference between income and current transfers of the current account and just the capital account? And one more thing, why is the capital account equaled to the change in reserves of the central bank? Please can you help?
Thank you!!!
https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/6411/economics/current-account-savings-investment/
> Also, what’s the difference between income and current transfers of the current account and just the capital account?
The current account includes net incomes. So if you earn income from your foreign direct investment, this income is counted on the current account. But, the direct investment itself is on the financial account.
e.g. Japan invest in building new factor – this is credit on financial account. If they repatriate profits to japan, this counts as debit on current account (net investment incomes)
i am reading articles about the assessment of competitiveness at macro and micro levels
and how the firm or country become competitive and i found many and many indicators about measuring the competitiveness throw the macro level (country level)
but my Question is wt is the possible problems of measuring the competitiveness depending on macro level??
thank you in advance
After reading the blog post of the ‘UK budget deficit’, I was a bit confused at the end about how public finances will be improved in the short term, but in the long term it will be a detriment to the budget balance because of an increase in interest rates. Could you possibly explain why this increase in interest rates will lead to the bank making a loss and could you explain a bit more about how the asset purchasing facility works and how it is relate to QE?
Thank you!
So there’s an article about how a company wants to expand its services overseas to another country.
I don’t get what will happen to the supply and demand curve. There has to be two – one for the present time and one for the future because as time changes, it has to change.
In other words, there has to be two supply/demand curves to show now and later in the future.
I know that the company will do horrible right now (since they have to pay for all the “building” of the companies) but they will do better in the future but I don’t know how to illustrate this.