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Merge these 9 tags on Finance + Stock Market?
markets is a hypernym for efficient-markets + financial-markets + stock-market. Other synonymous tags are ―
asset-pricing
finance
financial-economics
investment
trading
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Is it term paper / thesis season or something?
I've noticed we are getting a lot of questions recently on diff-in-diff from new users.
I assume a lot of these are for some basic undergrad student term papers or final theses, but am curious what ...
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chatGPT regulation & content mills
Should the site have any policy w.r.t. chatGPT and similar language prediction tools?
Are chatGPT written questions acceptable?
Are chatGPT written answers acceptable?
Are questions asking for an ...
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2022: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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Economics SE vs Quant SE?
Probably asked before but anyhoo thought of this from that: English SE vs ELL SE?
Might I break any (site-specific) rule for asking questions here instead of Quant SE? Sure I could get better answers ...
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The "elasticity of substitution" tag is misspelled
The tag for "elasticity of substitution" is currently spelled "elasticity-of-substituion". It would be great if a moderator could please rename that tag to insert the missing "...
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Should we reduce the number of votes required to close from 5 to 3 close votes?
Economics.SE is relatively small stack with few high rep users. This creates problem as it often takes quite long for questions that do not fit or are low quality to get closed. This seems to be ...
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How to get access to my own post?
I posted a question about Ramsey Optimal Taxation a day ago. Since I didn't have an account back then, I have lost access to the question. Here's the link to the question: Ramsey Optimal Tax.
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Why did my question about opportunity cost get downvoted?
I, a new user to this site and a complete beginner in economics, asked this question: What is opportunity cost really?
In my humble opinion, this a very logical question. I quickly received two ...
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No more question closures on a booming economics.SE
If you look at the history of the close review queue, you might notice that after 2022 Apr 1, all votes in that queue were made by myself, another user and a mod. A question needs 5 non-mod votes to ...
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Is advertising a post on a different SE crossposting
Suppose I post a question whose body consists of a link to a math.SE question and then I proceed to ask "I want to know what economists think about this?"
Is this crossposting? Technically ...
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Where should the "MathJax help" link (on the Editing Help page for our community) point to?
One of the community managers at Stack Exchange has pointed out that in the editing-help page for our site, which you can find by clicking here, there is a section on LaTeX, which at the bottom has a ...
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Are questions pertaining to investing in a specific country admissible?
Suppose that I would like to invest in Ruritania. Suppose further that I am interested in learning about the risks involved — physical, sociological, regulatory, legal, etc — and that I do not trust ...
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Is it allowed to ask about which sources are reliable to get certain data?
In my case, I'm doing a research about cost of living in different countries.
But data I find is not consistent, different web pages I find give different measurements for that data.
So, I think it's ...
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MathJax rendering Issue
In my answer here, the array environment is not rendered correctly in the output, but correctly in the editing interface.
Editing interface:
Output:
It turns out ...
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