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background we conducted a study with undergraduate students of economics in order to capture their view of economic education … to the collection of empirical material coupled with maximum rigor in analysis. The empirical findings show that students …-orientated introductory courses. The findings further indicate that students develop strategies to cope with their disappointment - all of …
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überhaupt wissen wollen. Es wird argumentiert, dass sowohl die ökonomische Wissensform als auch die Motivation der Wissenden im …
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Zehn Jahre nach Ausbruch der Finanzkrise wurden in der Juli-Umfrage des Ökonomenpanels von ifo und Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung Professoren für Volkswirtschaftslehre an deutschen Universitäten befragt, wie sich ihrer Meinung nach die Bedeutung der VWL gewandelt hat und inwieweit die...
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This elaboration starts by deciphering modern science as a social subsystem being loosely coupled to the rest of society (section 2.1). Additionally, the way in which modern (monistic) economics was generated within this subsystem will be sketched (section 2.2). This will be contrasted with the...
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The model of perfect competition is one of the most famous, most important, and most misunderstood concepts in economics. Rather than aiming to be a full-blown model of real-world competitive markets, the perfect competition model isolates the decentralized coordination mechanism inherent in all...
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The highly popular belief that rent–control leads to an increase in the amount of affordable housing is in contradiction with ample empirical evidence and congruent theoretical explanations. It can therefore be qualified as a misconception. We present the results of a preregistered online...
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20 years ago, William Baumol provided an interesting wish list that outlined his hopes for the future of economics over the next hundred years. Impatiently, this paper puts his wish list to the test by comparing the characteristics of publications that appeared in the American Economic Review...
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Research rankings based on publications and citations today dominate governance of academia. Yet they have unintended side effects on individual scholars and academic institutions and can be counterproductive. They induce a substitution of the taste for science by a taste for publication. We...
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More females than males have been attending Canadian universities over the past decade and this gender imbalance in university participation has been increasing. We use the Linear Probability and Logit models to investigate the determinants of attending university and explore the reasons for the...
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This study analyzes the impact of entrepreneurship education at universities on the intentions of students to become … effect of entrepreneurship education on students' intentions to become entrepreneurs or self-employed in the long-term but a …
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