The Economics of Money and Banking investigates the role of financial instruments and institutions in the economy. Major topics include the determination of interest rates, the characteristics of ...

Most economists use correlations among the various pieces of unique historical data to empirically estimate the future direction of an economy. For instance, it was observed that the lagged changes in ...

How Economics Explains the World. By Andrew Leigh. Mariner Books; 240 pages; $26. Published in Britain as “The Shortest History of Economics”; Old Street; £14.99 There is no shortage of books on the ...

Every era has its myths. In the myths of ancient people, heroes split the sky with stone axes in anger and sank to the bottom of the sea for hidden treasures. In the myths of the 19th century, people ...

YUMO by UBS is a new Swiss learning platform designed to strengthen financial and economic knowledge in interactive ways that are relevant to everyday life and easy to understand. YUMO aims to help ...