This paper aims to disentangle the factors determining the financial skills of young people in order to inspire effective policies aimed at improving the financial literacy of the population. PISA 2012 data is used. Special attention is paid to the sample selection and simultaneity biases that...

The paper sets out to describe and compare economics enrolment and graduation trends in the United States, Germany and Switzerland. Severe downturns are observed in all three countries at least since the beginning of this decade. This motivates a discussion of possible causes and remedial...

By scaling pay by AACSB averages pay across business school disciplines can be analyzed. This study looks at a unique data set of business school professors at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. It finds large disparities in pay between the business disciplines that cannot be explained by...

With the increase in online class offerings, one has to ask 'Are online classes as good as traditional class'? That is, are the learning outcomes similar in online courses as compared to traditional courses? The current study compares the learning outcomes of three sections of a single course at...

The objective of this article is setting a cornerstone to compare and understand the phenomenon of graduate entrepreneurship in developing and developed countries. Our central research questions are: Are there differences in the entrepreneurial intentions of university students? What are the...

In this work we compare the undergraduate Economics majors and their underlying structure in the top-ranked Economics departments of Europe and the United States. We identify the fundamental courses usually included in an Economics major by means of a cluster analysis. We further distinguish...

The presence of international students on college campuses has been a significant source of cultural diversity and globalization of college campuses. Therefore, determining factors for successful learning experiences of international students on American campuses could result in better...

This study compares and contrasts the accounting education provided by Russian universities with that given at American universities. Two typical universities were chosen for comparison purposes, one Russian and one American. Their curricula were compared and evaluated. Accounting educators at...

This paper attempts to examine, compare and forecast the per capita GDP of India, the USA, China, and Japan for a period of ten years from 2020 to 2029. It studies the concept of economic convergence which states that the developing economies’ per capita income levels tend to move at a faster...