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Can't See the Tacking for the Trees? Try a Coasian Solution

Beaulier, Scott; Mixon, Franklin; Cebula, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This note provides a modern story for principles instructors to use as a supplement to textbook accounts of problems associated with externalities and the applicability of the Coase theorem. Our story begins in July of 1988, when Larry Ellison paid $3.9 million for a home in the Pacific Heights...

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The Free-Rider Problem: A Pedagogical Note (Using Indifference Curve Technology)

Cebula, Richard; Belton, Willie; McLeod, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1994

This brief note develops a pedagogically useful new (albeit still rudimentary) way of teaching the free-rider concept. This simple approach applies the familiar tools of indifference curve analysis to the topic at hand. Since so many students of economics are well versed in indifference curves,...

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The social issues pedagogy vs. the traditional principles of economics: an empirical examination

Grimes, Paul W.; Nelson, Paul S. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998

Standardized test (TUCE) scores for students enrolled in a Social Issues course were compared to those of students in traditional Principles of Economics courses within the framework of a standard educational production function. The production function was estimated using Heckman's two-step...

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The Theory and Practice of Case-In-Point Teaching of Organizational Leadership

Robert, Yawson - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

education is an emerging pedagogy that is gaining ascendancy and relevance both in theory and practice. The pedagogy is … longer be the dominant epistemology. This paper discusses how Case-In-Point Pedagogy can be used in teaching organizational … leadership. The discussions are based on Ron Heifetz’ Case-In-Point Pedagogy as situated in the realist ontological frameworks of …

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Teaching the Economics of Income Tax Evasion

Cebula, Richard; Foley, Maggie - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The purpose of this pedagogical study is to provide a straightforward and easily understood framework that can be used to teach the economic behavior underlying income tax evasion. We begin with presenting a brief background that reflects the research that had been done, especially for the case...

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Teaching economics, appreciating spontaneous order, and economics as a public science

Boettke, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

James M. Buchanan has argued that the primary role that the economist plays in society is a pedagogical one. The job of the economists is to teach students the principles of economics, most notably an understanding of spontaneous order and the role of the price system in generating that order...

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Pattern of Computer and Internet Use among Teachers in Higher Institutions in Nigeria

Awoleye, Michael; Siyanbola, William; Egbetokun, Abiodun A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This research borders on assessing teachers’ competences in the use of ICT tools in teaching and research in Nigeria. Two common ICTs: the computer and the internet were selected, and the skills and attitudes of teachers in 7 Nigerian higher Institutions were assessed. About 760 questionnaires...

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This Time is Different, Again? The United States Five Years after the Onset of Subprime

Reinhart, Carmen; Kenneth, Rogoff - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

We focus on four previous systemic financial crises that the United States has experienced since 1870. These include the crisis of 1873 (called the Great Depression until the 1930s), the 1893 crisis, the panic of 1907, and the Great Depression. Given that all of the earlier crises predate the...

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Social Capital as Patterns of Connections. A Review of Bankston’s "Immigrant Networks and Social Capital"

Sabatini, Fabio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

Review of Immigrant Networks and Social Capital by Carl L. Bankston III. Cambridge, UK, and Malden, MA: Polity.

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How far India has gone down the road towards financial integration with US since subprime crisis? An Econometric Analysis

Saha, Malayendu; Bhunia, Amalendu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The present paper aims to study the causal relationship between the US and Indian equity markets using Johansen’s cointegration and variance decomposition analyses. Since the opening up of the economy and subsequent economic and political reforms, India has made tremendous strides in the...

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