Questioning the Fuel Price Naysayers
By Taufik Indrakesuma | 8:19am Mar 20, 2012
If the primary problem that people face is skyrocketing transportation costs, there are several other ways to deal with it. For example, people’s dependence on private transportation can be alleviated if the government invests enough in developing road infrastructure and public transport systems.
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On the Music Industry and Internet Era
By Siaga Ridha Hutama | 10:41am Feb 8, 2012
One aspect that crafts the oligopolistic market is imperfect information, which leads to distortion of market perception. Before the presence of the Internet and free data sharing, music marketing concepts were derived from two kinds of media, radio and print. Thus, the incumbents of the industry — well-known bands under major labels — were making it difficult for new entrants to penetrate the market, because the major labels had absolute control over the product they wanted to expose consumers to.
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How Much Does Mobility in Indonesia Affect Unemployment and Inequity?
By Siaga Ridha Hutama | 5:29pm Jan 25, 2012
Currently Indonesia is the rising star among Southeast Asian countries. The sustainable growth and its relative immunity from financial crisis makes it a favored bet for global fund managers. The dazzling performance, symbolized by outstanding growth – 6.5 percent - conveys the message that Indonesia along with BRIC countries is ready to take a bigger chunk of the world economic pie.
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By Rizki Nauli Siregar | 8:43am Jan 5, 2012
One of the topics I teach to students in my Mathematical Economics and Business class is optimization with constraint.
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The Airline Industry’s Paradox
By Siaga Ridha Hutama | 8:47am Dec 28, 2011
I’ve long been interested in the airline industry and wondered how a business that’s highly capital intensive but prone to economic cycles and oil prices has managed to be sustainable.
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If Flirting Gets Too Expensive
By Rizki Nauli Siregar | 8:41am Dec 27, 2011
One of the most unavoidable topics of discussion when we get together with old friends is about relationships.
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The Economics of Coffee Shop Loitering
By Taufik Indrakesuma | 10:31am Dec 10, 2011
As I sit here in a coffee shop trying to write an article, I look around and am suddenly inspired to write a completely different one. The inspiration came from a random question that just popped into my head: I wonder how long they will let me sit here after ordering only one cup of coffee.
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By Rizki Nauli Siregar | 10:21am Nov 30, 2011
When we’re hungry, the first spoon of food we eat gives us great enjoyment. But as we keep on eating, every next spoonful gives less pleasure than the previous one.
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Modern Football as a Business Model
By Siaga Ridha Hutama | 8:23am Nov 25, 2011
Football has, for some time, been all about the money.
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Changi’s Fantastic, but Why Do They Do It?
By Taufik Indrakesuma | 8:41am Nov 23, 2011
My default activity when waiting for my flight to board is to buy a book or magazine from the airport bookshop. However, I arrived quite early for my flight the other day and had a bit of time to kill. As it was Changi Airport, I decided to explore the full range of activities on offer.
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White Margin is a group of three young economists with opinionated minds and twitchy fingers. They share knee-jerk reactions, half-baked to fully-formed ideas, random musings, angry rants, and the list goes on… mainly on Jakarta and Indonesia, with an undertone of economic theory and logic. We believe that there is always room, some white margin, to fill in perspectives, even for the most rigid theories.
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