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The Federal government provided $11.2 billion in immediate assistance to the Government of New York City in September 2001, and $10.5 billion in early 2002 for economic development and infrastructure needs. [18] The 9/11 attacks had great impact on small businesses in Lower Manhattan, located near the World Trade Center.
Standard economic theory suggests that in relatively open international financial markets, the savings of any country would flow to countries with the most productive investment opportunities; hence, saving rates and domestic investment rates would be uncorrelated, contrary to the empirical evidence suggested by Martin Feldstein and Charles ...
The economic policy and legacy of the George W. Bush administration was characterized by significant income tax cuts in 2001 and 2003, the implementation of Medicare Part D in 2003, increased military spending for two wars, a housing bubble that contributed to the subprime mortgage crisis of 2007–2008, and the Great Recession that followed ...
In economics, free contract is the concept that people may decide what agreements they want to enter into. [1]
In microeconomics, economic efficiency, depending on the context, is usually one of the following two related concepts: [1] Allocative or Pareto efficiency : any changes made to assist one person would harm another.
For example, consider an investment opportunity that has the following characteristics: pay a utility cost of C at date t = 2 to earn a utility benefit of B at time t = 3. At date t = 1 , this investment opportunity is considered favorable; hence, this function is: − δC + δ^2 B > 0 .
Michael Spence studies the signalling equilibrium that may result from such a situation. He began his 1973 model with a hypothetical example: [2] suppose that there are two types of employees—good and bad—and that employers are willing to pay a higher wage to the good type than the bad type. Spence assumes that for employers, there's no ...
A simple example of a preference order over three goods, in which orange is preferred to a banana, but an apple is preferred to an orange. In economics, and in other social sciences, preference refers to an order by which an agent, while in search of an "optimal choice", ranks alternatives based on their respective utility.