The Legal Tender Act of 1862 offers a blueprint solution to our current economic crisis. The U.S. Government issued its own currency rather then relying on banks. This allowed the North to finance and win the civil war while keeping the economy solvent. The same solution can be used today to...

This paper straightforwardly discloses how an article written by Taiwanese scholars and published in Applied Economics is ridden with suspicious omissions. This misconduct leads to misinformation being printed in prominent journals as well as mistakenly listing eight medical doctors and three...

The global financial crisis (GFC) led to increasing distrust in economic research and the economics profession, in the process of which the current state of economics and economic education in particular were heavily criticized. Against this background we conducted a study with undergraduate...

Finance has come in for a great deal of criticism after the global financial crisis of 2007 and 2008. Clearly there were serious problems with finance as it was practiced in the years before the crisis. To the extent that this was only a gap between theory and practice, there is a need for...

This is a course material (slides in pdf format) for the chapter Financial Analysis and Control Financial Ratio Analysis already in SSRN. In these slides I present a detailed explanation of different financial ratios commonly used in financial management. We introduce some examples in the slides...

Financial crises are unavoidable when hardwired human behavior - fear and greed, or “animal spirits” - is combined with free enterprise, and cannot be legislated or regulated away. Like hurricanes and other forces of nature, market bubbles and crashes cannot be entirely eliminated, but their...

The 2008 economic crash led to remarkable shifts of opinion among world leaders. Does this crisis create favourable conditions for the reform and revitalisation of economics itself-from a subject dominated by mathematical techniques to a discipline more oriented to understanding real-world...

This case examines the challenges in implementing fair value accounting for mortgage instruments, the role of accounting in the sub-prime crisis, and proposals for revising accounting standards given the crisis

The aim of the research paper is to provide analytical discussion regarding the Brazilian financial collapse during the period 1998-1999. The paper initiates with an introductory paragraph, which apart from providing the reader with the reasons which have led towards selecting Brazil as the...

Yes. Using data on more than 3.7 million intimate partner violence (IPV) incidents between 1994 and 2016, and exploiting the staggered introduction of state-mandated personal finance high school graduation requirements across U.S. states for identification, we show that improvements in women's...