This paper describes how to implement and run a game for teaching the principles of money and banking to an undergraduate economics class. The game primarily deals with the market for loanable funds, but numerous extensions are provided to cover topics such as monetary policy, the tools of the...

There are plenty of theoretical studies addressing how active-based practices and methodologies influence university students' level of performance. However, there is a scarcity of works that bring empirical evidence to sustain the existence of a positive link between the students' involvement...

This study analyses the relationship between identification and loyalty and also compares the perceptions of two groups of key stakeholders (professors and graduates) of a public institution of higher education, as mechanisms to gain competitiveness against private institutions. To carry out...

In the study of Giffen behavior or "Giffenity", there remains a paradox. On one hand, the Wold-Juréen (Demand analysis: A study in Econometrics, 1953) utility function has been touted as the progenitor of a multi-decade search for those two-good, particular utility functions, which exhibit...

There is need to advance cross-cultural educations to better prepare tourism students for the nuances of a modern, multicultural century. This article makes a contribution by proposing an approach to developing students’ cultural intelligence that is based on the cultural intelligence (CQ)...

Die Corona-Krise trifft die deutsche Wirtschaft mit voller Wucht. Tiefe und Breite der Rezession lassen erwarten, dass die Erholung sehr schleppend verläuft. Für einen Neustart der Wirtschaft ist ein Konjunkturprogramm notwendig. Die Bundesregierung hat ein Paket im Umfang von alles in allem...

This paper puts forward a systematic approach to teaching simple dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models to undergraduates. It proceeds in the following way: first, the structural model of the economy, which includes the households' and firms' problems, is presented and...

Accounting is often regarded as an abstract –and hence, boring– subject by students, although it is strongly linked to real life. In this paper, an experimental activity is presented as a complementary tool to theoretical classes in the subject Introduction to Finance Accounting, taught in...

The aim of this study was to determine the effects of the cooperative ``jigsaw'' method on generic competence-based training by university students. This specifically sought to understand how systemic, instrumental and interpersonal competences are more easily acquired by adopting ``jigsaw'' in...