Economic, political, and demographic changes, technological advances, two crashes of the economy, ethical scandals, and other developments in the business environment have strained the roles and enrollments of American universities' business schools. The b-schools have not responded adequately....

"Without a doubt, business schools have been a success story in higher education over the last 50 years (the period of EFMD's existence). Even so, they have come under scrutiny, and attack, over their academic legitimacy and value proposition for business and society. In this book, drawn from a...

This second book in the EFMD Management Education series explores business schools’ increasing focus on, and search for, meaningful societal and economic research impact. This involves, in particular, co-operation and collaboration in both knowledge creation and implementation of the findings...

This paper describes how to implement and run a game for teaching the principles of money and banking to an undergraduate economics class. The game primarily deals with the market for loanable funds, but numerous extensions are provided to cover topics such as monetary policy, the tools of the...

Im Zuge der jüngsten globalen Krisenphänomene und Fehlentwicklungen auf den Finanzmärkten sowie der zunehmenden Virulenz individueller und gesellschaftlicher Risiken, die mit modernen Geld- und Finanzwirtschaften verbunden sind, hat sich die Diskussion um die Programmatik finanzieller Bildung...

Der Artikel zeichnet die Debatte über die Einführung eines separaten Schulfachs Wirtschaft nach und präsentiert ausgewählte Ergebnisse einer Befragung von Studierenden in den neuen Studiengängen mit Lehramtsoption Wirtschaft beziehungsweise Politik in Baden-Württemberg. Oft wird gefordert,...

This paper provides a systematic assessment of academic economics teaching, research and policy advice in Germany. It assembles recent empirical studies and contributes by presenting their main findings in a comprehensible manner as well as contextualizing them in the current economic and...

Demands for pluralism in economics education have been widespread in recent years. As change in the universities is slow and piecemeal, we present a comparative approach to economics which builds the intellectual basis for the online learning platform Exploring Economics...

This is the first paper that studies the causal effect of studying economics on subjective well being. Based on a survey among 918 students of economics and other social sciences, we estimate the effects of studying in the different fields on individual life satisfaction. Controling for personal...