Breaking Bad is currently ranked fifth by the Internet Movie Database's (IMDB) Top 250 television shows based on user rankings and second among 100 shows reviewed by The Hollywood Reporter. Despise the series ending in 2013, Al-Bahrani et al. (2016) find that current students still rank the show...

This is an original, hypothetical case study to be used for teaching quot;arithmetically aversequot; students of all ages. Chapter one has already been posted on SSRN. This chapter, a continuation of the quot;Robin Hood and His Outliers Saga, an Introduction to Basic Statistics,quot; illustrates...

The recent global financial crisis made the need for companies to have an easy access to credit greater than ever before. Consequently, the importance of the laws surrounding secured transactions has been considerably increased since many companies seek financial assistance from financial...

We use meta-regression analysis to investigate the extent and nature of the gender gap - that male students outperform otherwise equivalent female students in economics courses. We survey 65 studies containing 279 distinct regressions from the past 30 years and conclude that the gender gap is...

Twitter is useful for academic economists to follow current research and public policy and to engage with their colleagues, students, and the general public. It is also a great place to gather information relevant to undergraduate economics courses. A course specific twitter hashtag embedded in...

Italian Abstract: Sono esaminati i casi di un Principale ed un Agente, in cui il principale possa agire in contesto di monopolio o di concorrenza perfetta, e l'informazione possa essere completa o meno. In particolare per informazione completa viene considerato il caso in cui sia l'azione che il...

In an attempt to promote and gain wider acceptance of team learning activities in the classroom, researchers have recommended detailed incentive plans, ranging from controlling student behavior to instilling the fundamental values of cohort responsibility to emphasizing the benefits of lifelong...

This paper evaluates the use of specialist software within university trading rooms in order to enable students to experience a simulated environment which allows them to gain an appreciation of "real life" decision-making within the finance and banking industry and become familiar with...

This paper will discuss the creation of a personal finance curriculum for elementary aged homeschool students. The curriculum created should be from a perspective that teaches students financial literacy in the context of everyday life. In the paper, the curriculum will be divided up into...

From the early decades of the twentieth century, a dominant characteristic of the modern “capitalist” corporation, especially in the United States, was the separation of asset ownership in the form of publicly traded shares from allocative control over the corporation's resources by salaried...