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Ten More Practice Micro and Macro Essay Titles

Geoff Riley

16th May 2018

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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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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.