Ec10 Helpful Hints

Q: I was wondering if there was a specific combination of buy/selling a call or put that meant hedging or speculating. In other words, is th...

Q: I know S=I, but saving and investment aren't exactly the same. What is the big difference? A: The difference is that saving is what h...

Q: What does alpha stand for in the Y=A+aK+(1-a)L equation? Will it be given to us (unless its a problem where we need to solve for it)? A: ...

Q: I was wondering if you could explain bond yields to me. I'm a little confused as to exactly what they are. I was used to thinking o...

2 important things to go over before your exam, since we didn't have time to fully cover them in the review session: -- Helpful Hint on...

In general, financial leverage results from having control over an asset (read, getting gains and losses from) an asset that you don't o...

Q: Consider a stock that has an equal chance of being $27, $33, or $36 on, say, June 1st. What do you expect the price of the stock to be ...

I just wanted to point out that most of the $14 trillion that we talked about in the NYSE and NASDAQ market values is held by US households ...

When we talked about savings institutions (financial intermediaries) in class, I kept using banks as an example. This is not the only examp...

I wanted to make an important distinction that I feel was not entirely clear in class. I will use an example with bonds, but you can repla...

In response to a student question from Barro's lecture: There are actually two concepts in growth economics- absolute convergence and co...

I noticed in Prof. Barro's lecture that there were several acronyms that he used without (in my opinion) adequately explaining. So I wi...

I welcome you to ask questions about the above article from the first section. As Simon pointed out, the article can be confusing to you- I...

Recall that in class I gave you the production function Y=Af(K,L), and then a couple of minutes later I gave you an equivalent equation in g...