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The author describes his experience with the process of peer reviews by economists of economics departments. On the bases of roughly 20 reviews of departments in the public and private sectors over two decades, he discusses how the process works and what can be accomplished by it and identifies...
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regression analysis, he found that students taught by cooperative learning achieved greater academic performance in the form of …
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beneficial effect on the economic understanding of the high school students of these teachers. The data we recollected using a …. Pre- and posttests of economics were administered to the students of these teachers in Lithuania, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, and … Poland. The exploratory results showed a larger increase in the economic understanding of students of teachers who …
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students in Russia, the Netherlands, Israel, and the United States and conclude that attitudes toward cheating differ …
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develop this model using spreadsheets. Spreadsheets help students deal with “what-if †questions within prepared … spreadsheets. They also give students the chance to look into the workings of the model and to change its structure. The exercise … spreadsheets provide important advantages over using “black-box†presentations. Moreover, using spreadsheets gives students an …
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The author shows how principles and intermediate economic students can gain a feel for strategic price setting by … students. Finally, to make it easier for others to tinker with the assumptions of the game, the author can provide the …
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This article presents a rigorous version of the basic model of an increasing-cost competitive industry found in many textbooks. In the model, firms are infinitesimal, which justifies price-taking behavior and a continuous industry supply curve. The industry supply curve slopes upward because of...
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contract zone. The results are intuitive, can be shown graphically and algebraically, and provide upper-level students with …
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courses at the upper level, just as it was at the principles level. Similar to the results for principles students, they find … that introverted students make better grades in their upper-level economics classes than identical students who are … extroverts. They also find that students with SJ temperaments make significantly better grades in upper-level economics than …
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