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What is the probability of default in Delinquia? What does Delinquia consume in disaster years? In non disaster years?
Explain how empirical evidence and theoretical arguments might counter this assertion.
Calculate the Sharpe ratio for these trades. Based on these data, does the forex market in question satisfy EMH?
Explain the logic behind this statement. Use the examples of Slovakia and China to illustrate your argument.
What is the Poor land wage in PP per day? In R$ per day? What is the ratio of Poor land to Richland wages in a common currency?
How are these convergence criteria related to the potential benefits and costs associated with joining a currency union?
Why countries with less independent central banks tend to have higher inflation rates? Is possible for central bank to increase output and reduce unemployment?
Which central bank has more independence to pursue price stability as a primary objective? Explain.
Based on this information, discuss the OCA criteria for this group of countries. What are the greatest potential benefits? What are the potential costs?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of this approach? What do you think would be the objections to that approach in the United States?
The debate over retaining work incentives underlies both TANF and the EITC. What model of human motivation underlies those two programs?
How has it changed? Separate that amount into Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, and other. What are the fast growing parts of income support?
What are the efficiency, equity, and administrative advantages of a means-testing system that phases out eligibility as household income approaches.
Should those five workers be paid more? How much more? Should they get all the increase in the company's net income since they created it?
How might such an arrangement make the problem of responsiveness to the preferences of voters weaker or stronger?
What kind of behavior by voters might make it more likely that public officials will be more responsive to signals from voters?
What percentage of voters are with you on that decision? How would your answer be different if the standard deviation was only $15,000?
Why and how is government likely to fail? What can citizens (or writers of constitutions, or even politicians) do to minimize government failure?
Suggest at least two voting schemes to make this decision and evaluate the advantages and drawbacks of each.
How nations have dealt with this problem of sovereignty and spillovers in terms of some issue such as acid rain, climate change, or overfishing the oceans.
How might citizen attitudes toward local government taxes and spending be different from attitudes toward the federal government?
What are some of the ways that states can engage in horizontal equalization between cities and counties? What criteria might they use for distributing funds?
find the amount of state aid to local governments from 1997 to the most recent available year and calculate the amount of aid as percentage of general revenue.
Why (or why not) would it be appropriate for state governments to put such restrictions on local governments?
What might be the benefits/costs to existing residents in expanding the size of the city? To those being annexed?