This study empirically examines what factors increase the probability of a quick sale, an event where a property sells quicker than what is considered a normal marketing duration. This investigation is the first to explore the determinants of the probability of a quick sale utilizing a Probit...

This article offers a practical way for economic educators to integrate marketing into economics principles courses by connecting economic principles and data to advertisements used during the "Great Recession." While most business students are required to take economic principles courses, few...

By evaluating a new data set on colleges and universities across six states, this paper characterizes the state of the economics major and identifies institutional characteristics that may influence key features of an economics major. Although majors are similar in terms of credit hour...

In this article we show how teaching the fundamentals of supply, demand and the market equilibrium can be enhanced by including lessons from transition countries, in which markets did not exist less than two decades ago and the market institutions are still being built. We draw upon the...

We present a classroom public goods experiment based on a provision point mechanism, where subjects must make an all or nothing decision about providing the public good. We find that, as a teaching tool, this design is superior to traditional prisoners' dilemma games in which there exists a...