Economics and Finance
Marginal revenue equals this at the profit-maximizing quantity in any market.
What is marginal cost?
This major was established at Oberlin in 1913.
What is the economics major?
The worst economic crisis in US history.
What was the Great Depression?
This artist received seven awards at the 2026 iHeartRadio Music Awards, including Pop Song of the Year for “The Fate of Ophelia.”
Who is Taylor Swift?
According to Investopedia, the “branch of economics that studies how individuals and businesses respond to changes in incentives, prices, resources, and/or methods of production.”
What is microeconomics?
This line item connects the income statement to the cash flow statement.
What is net income?
Oberlin has over 240 of this instrument.
What are Steinway pianos?
This type of mortgage was part of the catalyst of the Great Recession.
What is a subprime mortgage?
This singer’s new album, The Romantic, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 this year with the lead single “I Just Might.” Previous hit singles include “24K Magic” and “Just the Way You Are.”
Who is Bruno Mars?
After winning Eurovision in 1974 with their song “Waterloo,” this famous pop group achieved tremendous success with hits like “Take a Chance on Me,” “Mamma Mia!” and “Money, Money, Money.”
Who is ABBA?
A self-reinforcing cycle in which a large negative price shock results in a lowering of consumer price expectations and continued leftward shifts of aggregate demand. In this scenario, the self-adjustment mechanism of the economy is broken, and equilibrium cannot be automatically restored.
What is deflationary spiral?
The Oberlin Conservatory building was designed by Minoru Yamasaki, who also designed this historic building in New York City.
What is the World Trade Center?
She is a prominent American economist and was the first woman to serve as Chair of the Federal Reserve and Secretary of the Treasury.
Who is Janet Yellen?
This book was the best-selling YA title in 2025, and its film adaptation is scheduled to be released in theaters later this year. It is the second prequel to a very famous YA series.
What is Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins?
This song was released as the second single from Justin Bieber's fifth studio album, Changes, on February 7, 2020. It reached top ten in multiple countries, was nominated for an MTV Music Video Award, and includes the lyric: “Heart full of equity, you’re an asset.”
What is “Intentions” by Justin Bieber featuring Quavo?
When the variability of the unobserved or error term is not dependent on the explanatory variable. This is a key assumption for OLS estimation in econometrics.
What is homoskedasticity?
This famous American sportsman and writer both coached and played on the Oberlin football team in the 1890s.
Who is John Heisman?
This actor starred in over 50 films before starting his career as a politician, later defining 1980s economic policy with tax cuts, reduced regulation, and limited government intervention aimed at leveraging supply-side economic theories to stimulate economic growth.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
Out of the Final Four for Women’s March Madness 2026, ESPN predicts this team will ultimately claim the No. 2 slot.
Who are the Texas Longhorns?
This 1936 comedic film critiques industrialization and capitalism during the Great Depression and stars Charlie Chaplin.
What is “Modern Times?”
Simplified, a mathematical framework used to determine the fair price of financial instruments.
What is the Black-Scholes model?
The physics building is dedicated to this sister of the Wright brothers, who graduated from Oberlin College in 1898.
Who is Katharine Wright Haskell?
Legal tender paper currency that the Union issued to help finance the Civil War and reduce counterfeiting.
What are greenbacks?
This is the name of the Roy family’s company in HBO’s Succession.
What is Waystar Royco?
According to Merriam-Webster, “an applied science concerned with designing and arranging things people use so that the people and things interact most efficiently and safely.” This word starts with “e” and rhymes with “economics.”
What is ergonomics?