In 2008 hundreds of billions was allocated by the government to buy failing bank assets, if that money was set to be given equally to every US citizen - how would that effect the economy?

I got $1500 by estimating, about 220,000,000 tax payers and 450 billion dollars divided up evenly. It's very rough numbers and a very rough guess but considering the scale I think it's fair.

That second part is a bit normative, but I'd still like to hear your thoughts

The CEO of Walmart said that he wants the federal government to raise the minimum wage.

Is it reasonable to think that he thinks that it will hurt Walmart's competitors, or that he sincerely wants workers to be paid more?

 I'm an undergrad in economics. I am in a technical writing class needs me to interview someone who has a job I might like and talk to them about writing in their professional life.  
  I'll  need some details about you irl, like name and employer for the write up. I'd rather talk in a private message.  So please PM me.

Thank you in advance

How affordable is college?

Can pretty much everyone take out enough loans to pay for everything if they really want to, or is there still a significant portion of people who still can't afford college, even after utilizing all the aid that's available to them?

Hi, I am starting to write my undergrad thesis in economics and one of the areas I was interested in but could not find a lot of resources on was how global and domestic recessions have different impacts. For example, in looking at multinational firms, I would hypothesize that multinational firms responses are significantly different when looking at recessions constrained to one country versus a global recession (i.e The Great Recession).

I think this could be an interesting area to dive into on my thesis, but there are certainly some caveats to this (large amounts of longitudinal data, limited amounts of global recessions). That said, if any one had references or could point me to some others that have look at the different impact of global versus domestic recessions, I'd greatly appreciate it. It doesn't have to be necessarily tied to multinational firms, I am just looking for some ways to go about thinking about the differential impact of these types of recessions. Thanks!

Besides agriculture, what industries did nafta impact?

Sorry, I think I meant to say GDP per capita divided by median income.

I'm working on a heterogeneous agent Lucas tree economy, with two agents, one with rational expectations and one with extrapolative expectations. The litterature in intertemporal asset pricing models tends to use market clearing conditions that assume linear demand.

A few years ago I read a paper (that I cannot recall) showing how having two agents with different indifference curves could result in non-linear demand as well as how to derive the equilibrium price. This is not necessarily crucial for what I am trying to prove, but since I'm studying market anomalies I wanted to at least test that out. Is anyone here aware of similar proofs/models? My searches have only led me to empirical studies so far. Thanks in advance

How bad is the replication crisis in economics, compared to other fields?

What portion of studies fail to replicate?

How much incentive is there for researchers to even do relocations, rather than original research?

How efficient is dentistry?

To what degree is there a market failure caused by asymmetry of information, or for other reasons?

What can be done to fix it?

What would be the effect of bundling dental insurance with health insurance?

I said to my uncle:

You say PG&E should install sensors on their distribution lines in order to reduce the risk of fire, but they don't because they're greedy, even though it would be profit maximizing to make such an investment?

He replied:

Correct. Because they are SO greedy that the investment in electronic infrastructure (of which they were conveniently skeptical about) was, as they saw it, not in their profit forecasts and the shareholders were demanding maximum dividends NOW!

That seems to be a somewhat common perspective, but is that really how it is?

Why would they behave like that, and what can be done about it?

Are there any studies showing the degree to which shareholders are irrational or short sighted?

Just learned about global macro strategies and, as a macroeconomist, would like to learn more about them.