Description Economic Forecast Outline Topic Suggestions: Here are some suggestions of items that you could look at in writing your economic forecast. This is certainly not an exhaustive list, but it is intended to give you some general items. Charts and graphs are to be included as appendices…

Description Each RP is supposed to be between 2,500 and 3,500 words, including cover page, footnotes, references, tables, figures, etc. Further details on the contents and structure of the RPs will be provided in a Guidance Note. Please see the Detailed Course Outline below for the due dates…

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Description The Board of Directors would like you to undertake the following tasks: Finally, briefly discuss how you could use behavioural economics to understand why people choose unhealthy food options, even if a change would be preferred.

Description Problem Description: Labour movement across countries is an important feature of globalization. The native-born workers in the host countries, however, have concerns that the immigrants will compete with them for jobs in the labour market. Policy makers are divided on immigration, with some arguing that immigrants can…

Description We will use the online spending application. First, create the variable yspend (10,000 observations with spending for each household) and the sparse matrix xweb, following the lecture notes (you can just copy the code from the lecture notes, and you don’t need to include this data preparation…

Description (20 points) Risk Premium a. Please go to the website http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/categories. Under “Money, Banking, and Finance”, select “interest rates”, and then “Commercial Paper”. Find the relevant interest rate series (monthly series, not inflation-indexed) as specified below. Download the data from January 2000 to August 2024 (the most…

Description Fiscal Competition PowerPoint for Class 16 Required Readings: Discussion Questions:

Description Governmental entities use price indices to determine cost of living allowances (COLAs) and to make judgements about monetary policy. Since there are several price indices available, policy makers must make analytical judgements about which among the several available price indices is appropriate for determining COLAs and for…