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On the relationship between output and unemployment
Knotek (2007) examined whether the statistical relationship of real output growth with the unemployment rate, as captured by Arthur...
Filippos Papasavvas
May 28, 2023


On Marshall's consumer surplus
Alfred Marshall’s derivation of ‘consumer surplus’ in his book ‘Principles of Economics’, was one of the first attempts by economists to...
Filippos Papasavvas
Apr 16, 2023


Who is most at risk of homelessness in the UK?
Bramley and Fitzpatrick (2018) investigate the impact of different factors in driving people to homelessness in the UK, and they refute...
Filippos Papasavvas
Apr 2, 2023


The role of foreign powers in the Greek Civil War
Iatrides and Rizopoulos (2000) argue that the communists’ defeat in the Greek Civil War (1942-1949) was generally the result of the...
Filippos Papasavvas
Mar 13, 2023


On the birth of free trade
In his 1994 paper, Avner Greif detected systematic cultural differences between two medieval trading societies: the ‘collectivist’...
Nikolas Neos
Jan 22, 2023


Economic impact of soil erosion may not be as large as it seems
Panagos et al. (2018) used a general equilibrium model to estimate the cost of soil erosion by water on EU GDP in 2010. According to...
Filippos Papasavvas
Dec 5, 2022


World food regimes: a short history
Xu (2019) distinguishes between three historic world food regimes: the period when the UK was the world’s major food importer...
Filippos Papasavvas
Sep 1, 2022


Do others affect Eastern European stocks?
In their paper, Zivkov et al (2018) investigate the relationship between the major Eastern European stock indexes (Czechia, Hungary,...
Filippos Papasavvas
Jul 26, 2022


Does democracy make you richer?
Using data covering 175 countries from 1960 to 2010, Acemoglu et al (2019) estimate that, on average, democratization alone increases GDP...
Nikolas Neos
Jul 12, 2022


Can the yield curve predict a Eurozone recession?
Sabes et al (2022) investigate whether a yield curve inversion has historically been a good predictor of Eurozone recessions. They find...
Filippos Papasavvas
Jun 11, 2022


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