Business students often have difficulty integrating economics reasoning into other business disciplines because of differences in the format and presentation of financial data across disciplines. Economics courses use one format while Accounting and other business courses use another. This paper...

This paper investigates the determinants of students' attitude toward economic literacy. Because the majority of students take principles courses as required rather than as elective the question of interest is what may cause students who finish economics principles course to believe that a basic...

In this paper we use a classroom exercise to reveal the main efficiency and equity aspects of the Tiebout hypothesis. We conduct and extend the exercise developed by Brouhle et al (2005) by including a second phase in which students have the opportunity to evaluate the implications of the...

The author proposes to change the presentation order of short-run costs, a topic which constitutes a major hurdle for students in economics principles. By giving the leading role to the marginal variables over the total variables which can be practically ignored, the streamlined presentation...