Learn how economists measure externalities using equilibrium models, cost assessments, and qualitative methods. Gain insight into real-world and theoretical impacts.

Learn what the Marginal Propensity to Invest (MPI) means, how it’s calculated, and its impact on economic growth and investment decisions.

A profit-maximizing firm focuses on raising net earnings and proving profitability to investors whenever possible. While businesses often fall into profit-seeking behaviors naturally, there are other ...

Much economic theory is based not on marginal analysis of totals but on analyzing the changes caused by increasing or decreasing those totals. Marginal cost is the increase in total costs resulting ...

Marginal revenue and marginal benefits can help companies determine how much of a product to produce in order to maximize profits. Marginal benefit is a measure of a consumer's benefit of purchasing ...

Business owners usually have employees who perform at different levels of efficiency. Some employees perform poorly and never reach their full potential, while others excel and outperform the typical ...

Marginal cost is the added expense of producing one more unit. A horizontal marginal cost curve indicates consistent production costs. Businesses may aim to maintain horizontal costs to stabilize ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Abakus, a marketing attribution solution that applies economic game theory to measure the true marginal contribution of marketing campaigns, channels, partners and ...

This paper applies the dynamic mixture copula model method and proposes a mobility measure of the marginal expected shortfall (MES) to depict the changing systemic risk in China’s mainland stock ...