This paper evaluates the effectiveness of concept maps as a teaching and learning tool in Principles of Microeconomics lectures and tutorials in two different countries, Australia and USA. While Australian students found concept mapping as a tool for understanding concepts in economics, they did...

Be it on topics of property, contract, commerce, trade, tax, legal history, or other matters, jurisprudence in the United States often invokes economic thinking in providing a rationale for legal outcomes. Consequently, I wondered how often the appeal to economic thinking in the courts included...

Visit research.depauw.edu/econ/incomevis to see a novel, eye-catching visual display of the income distribution in the United States that conveys fundamental information about the evolution and current level of income inequality to a wide audience. We use IPUMS CPS data to create household...

This study examines events within African American history of the United States. It explains how traumatic events in the history of African Americans in the United States have affected the decisions they make today, which directly affects the national and kitchen table economies. This study is...

Newspapers have been experiencing declining circulation figures and diminishing advertising revenues for several years - both effects might pose a threat to the continuing existence of (print) newspapers. In an earlier paper, Lindstädt & Budzinski (2011) argued from a theoretical viewpoint that...

This paper investigates whether entrepreneurs with technical education are more innovative in high-tech industries than economists ('nerd effect'). To analyze this question, we examine the KfW/ZEW Start-Up Panel between 2007 and 2008. Two independent OLS regressions are conducted for...

Newspapers have been experiencing declining circulation figures and diminishing advertising revenues for several years - both effects might pose a threat to the continuing existence of (print) newspapers. In an earlier paper, Lindstädt & Budzinski (2011) argued from a theoretical viewpoint that...

We document the current state of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) education in introductory accounting courses, and model the decision by introductory accounting educators to integrate IFRS into their courses. Using a survey of educators conducted during Fall 2009, we find that...

The advent of the internet, and more recently of artificial intelligence (AI), has challenged academic and other institutions to ensure ethical practices and reward/promote true merit. The borderless and relatively anonymous nature of the internet creates policing challenges, leading to the...