Instructors' Resources

Case studies

• Chapter 1 - Adjusting national income for quality changes
• Chapter 1 - Making international comparisons of living standards - purchasing power parity (PPP)
• Chapter 1 - The informal economy
• Chapter 2 - There are no case studies for this chapter
• Chapter 3 - Is the future discounted too much?
• Chapter 3 - Options and investment
• Chapter 4 - How harmful are deficits?
• Chapter 5 - The Fischer hypothesis
• Chapter 6 - Bubbles and fads in asset prices - some theory
• Chapter 6 - Preventing a stock market crash - circuit breakers
• Chapter 6 - Should policy makers control bubbles?
• Chapter 6 - The equity risk premium - an unresolved puzzle
• Chapter 7 - There are no case studies for this chapter
• Chapter 8 - There are no case studies for this chapter
• Chapter 9 - High European unemployment
• Chapter 9 - How do firms set prices?
• Chapter 9 - Why are wages sticky in a downward direction?
• Chapter 10 - Fiscal policy: Does it work? Do we need it?
• Chapter 10 - Has oil lost the ability to shock?
• Chapter 10 - How tight is the labour market?
• Chapter 10 - The misery index
• Chapter 11 - There are no case studies for this chapter
• Chapter 12 - There are no case studies for this chapter
• Chapter 13 - There are no case studies for this chapter
• Chapter 14 - Convergence in the euro area - what's the evidence?
• Chapter 14 - The future of EMU -what does history tell us?
• Chapter 14 - The US trade deficit and global imbalances
• Chapter 15 - There are no case studies for this chapter
• Chapter 16 - The Scandinavian model
• Chapter 17 - EU enlargement