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To dollar or not to dollar? Case study: Ukraine
We all have that one friend who knows exactly how much the dollar will cost in a week, a month or in a year. And there is always another...
Anastasiya Kovalenko
Mar 16, 20184 min read


Printing your own money in the 21st century
Today’s article is by our guest writer Sergey Khalil. He’s a third year student at the BSc Economics and Business program at the FEB....
Sergey Khalil
Mar 9, 20187 min read
Criticism and Modern Economics
Contrary to popular belief and university propaganda, academia do not always foster an independent mind. In their first course on...
Dirk Damsma
Mar 7, 20185 min read


Chiquita not so chiquita
For humankind, basic resources have always been a reason to begin conflicts. Take the example of agriculture; since its discovery,...
Alfonso Garza
Mar 2, 20187 min read


A Massive Breakthrough For The Dutch Tax Authorities
From the 14th of February onwards, not only a tax evader is responsible for the damage caused by tax evasion, but also the trust agency...
Annika Hooft
Feb 28, 20183 min read


Is China on the verge of collapse?
China’s economy has become synonymous with growth. Since the 1980’s liberalization of Deng Xiaoping, China’s leader from the late 1970s...
Joos Akkerman
Feb 23, 20184 min read


Buy One for the Price of Two and a Half!
In the modern political agenda, governments are responsible for numerous elements that are directly involved with their citizens’ lives....
Kaan Günderen
Feb 19, 20185 min read


The economics behind human trafficking
When you grow up in Romania, there is a saying that you will hear anytime you want to go outside at night: “beware of the black van”. The...
Ana Popovici
Feb 16, 20184 min read


Tax Cuts and Jobs Act: Yea or Nay
On December 20th, 2017, after the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the federal corporate tax rate is now reduced to a flat rate of...
Arzum Begüm Ünal
Feb 12, 20184 min read


On Planet Economics Killing Planet Earth is Rational
Constant economic growth is not doing the planet any favors. ‘Global average temperature has already risen by 0,8°C,’ ‘[a]round 40% of...
Dirk Damsma
Feb 9, 20184 min read


Super Bowl Projects Super Growth?
As the final whistle was blown in the US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, the fifty-second edition of the Super Bowl witnessed the underdogs...
Hải Đăng Vũ
Feb 7, 20185 min read


Imbalance of Payments
It’s not up to debate that 2017 has been a year full of tension and uncertainty in terms of international relations, especially...
Evrim Öztamur
Feb 5, 20183 min read


Supply or Demand? The Business of Drug Trafficking
San José de La Parrilla, Durango is a five thousand people city in the north of Mexico. Its inhabitants can testify that it was one of...
Alfonso Garza
Feb 2, 20184 min read


Collaborative consumption – a matter of trust
Five million nights have been booked on Airbnb in the past six months alone. 30 million rides have been shared on Carpooling.com. This...
Anastasiya Kovalenko
Jan 31, 20183 min read


The Wage Growth Mystery
We do not think often of economists as detectives, as we tend to leave exciting puzzles to those with the more exciting professions. The...
Alma Rottem
Jan 26, 20184 min read


Why the price of healthy food rises faster than the price of unhealthy food
According to the Dutch Central Bureau of Statistics, prices rose by average with 2.7 per cent in 2017, this is the second highest...
Annika Hooft
Jan 24, 20184 min read


Do You Really Need That?
I want to start this article off by getting something off of my chest: I am a bit obsessed with sales. I think the source of this goes...
Kaan Günderen
Jan 19, 20183 min read


Diamonds, and Monopolies, Are Not Forever
Some things in life are accepted without any questions, and most of these relate to social norms. We never wonder why exactly we shake...
Atma Jyoti Mahapatra
Jan 17, 20184 min read


Sweetest Tax of Them All
Growing up, I always thought that the United States was the most obese country in the world. Whenever someone discussed obesity, not only...
Evrim Öztamur
Jan 15, 20184 min read


The Econocracy
In political parlance and mainstream media alike, the economy is often presented as an entity in its own right. It ‘can speed up, slow...
Dirk Damsma
Jan 12, 20184 min read
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