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Ten More Practice Micro and Macro Essay Titles
16th May 2018
Here are ten more practice essay titles that might be worth planning and writing under timed conditions:
Microeconomics
Question 1
Evaluate the policies that a government could use to reduce the externalities associated with plastic pollution (25)
Question 2
Assess the usefulness of behavioural economics in understanding the causes of financial market failure (25)
Question 3
Examine the impact of firms choosing not to maximise profits on the economic welfare of consumers (25)
Question 4
To what extent are mergers and takeovers good for consumers in the long term? Discuss with reference to recent examples. (25)
Question 5
Examine the possible effects of the government imposing a cap on the prices charged by energy utilities in the UK (25)
Macroeconomics
Question 1
Evaluate the impact of a decade of ultra-low interest rates on the macroeconomic performance of the UK economy (25)
Question 2
Assess the effectiveness of debt relief and overseas aid as strategies to sustain development in lower-income countries (25)
Question 3
Drawing on knowledge of a country of your choice, discuss the extent to which a central bank is successfully able to control inflation given the frequency of external shocks in the global economy (25)
Question 4
Drawing on knowledge of a country of your choice, evaluate the policies that a developing country might use to move from middle to higher per capita incomes (25)
Question 5
Evaluate the argument that globalisation has been of much greater benefit to consumers in advanced countries rather than consumers in developing nations. (25)
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