An index is used to compare economic data, typically price or quantity against a base value. Specifically, the Consumer Price Index is used to measure…
Month: September 2015
My topic of interest is import-substitution. Governments in developing economies sometimes try to protect developing industries by taxing or disallowing importation of the good or…
My paper topic idea is to look at the intersection of Stolper-Samuelson and the benefits of international trade for US workers. Essentially if unskilled workers…
My idea is to look at the studies of the Great Depression in the 1930s and the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis in 2008 since the…
My first choice for a paper topic is the relationship between FDI and trade. I want to see if increases in FDI will lead to…
Robert Solow’s Paper “Technical Change and the Aggregate Production Function” details a method of distinguishing shifts of the aggregate production function from movements along it.…
Is U.S. Economic Growth Over? Faltering Innovation Confronts the Six Headwinds by Robert J. Gordon questions the belief that economic growth is a never ending…
The Producer Price Index (PPI) is an index released monthly by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). To put it in simple words, PPI measures…
Will commenting now work on new posts, given changes made by Helen of ITS? I still apparently have to enable comments in old posts by…
These should now appear correctly using the tabs at the top. I initially failed to shift the menu location of this term’s syllabus so it…