1.  Define the GDP price index.  Identify the person(s) who gave this idea. A GDP price index is a measure of the price of a specified collection of goods and services in a given year as compared to the price of an identical or highly similar collection of goods and services in a reference year. William Stanley Jevons (1835-1882) provided the earliest contribution to the […]

Explain the concept of potential output and why actual output can differ from potential output? (2 marks) Potential output is the amount of output that an economy can produce when using its resources such as capital and labour, at normal rates. Potential output is not a fixed number but grows over time, reflecting increases in both the amounts of available capital and labour and their […]

This article revisits the relation between current systemic risk measures and macroeconomic shock based. I construct the combined framework of Granger causality test and quantile regressions to investigate the causal effect in a specific quantile. Empirically, few of the systemic risk show strong relation with macroeconomic shock in different quantiles. In addition, the extent of the relation is also different among different quantile ranges. Introduction […]

INTRODUCTION: Milton Friedman was an American economist as well as being a public intellectual. He was born in 1912 and died at the age of 94 in 2006. He was an ardent advocate of economic freedom as well as personal liberty. Before his death Friedman was one of the most influential scholars and figures of authority in the fields of microeconomics, statistics, and economic history […]