Wilhelm von Humboldt hat 1809/10 seine Universitätsidee näher ausgeführt, zu der insbesondere auch die Einheit von Forschung und Lehre sowie die damit verbundene Gemeinschaft der Lehrenden und Lernenden gehören. Dagegen gibt es Stimmen, dass Humboldt bzw. seine Universitätsidee tot seien,...

This paper sheds light on the questions how important competences are and which competences can best be learned at school and which competences can be acquired better in the workplace. Exploiting data from a survey among professional tertiary education and training business administration...

While exchange rate dynamics is an important topic in open economy macroeconomics, the standard tool commonly used to introduce exchange rate dynamics - the Dornbusch (1976) seminal paper along with phase diagram - is not well-suited for undergraduate students as most of them do not have yet a...

This paper analyzes the current state of research in macroeconomics in the light of first year macroeconomics courses offered in the 16 leading Ph.D programs. Our investigation confirms that methodological and ideological differences of 1970's and 80's are about to disappear as methodological...

This paper aims to illustrate the working and business environment of professional fine artists and to identify the factors to successfully make a living in the arts as both market challenges and success factors have not yet been clearly identified in literature. The identification of artists'...

The rhetoric of positivism had a profound effect on the worldview and practice of economists in the middle of the last century. Though this influence has greatly diminished, it still may be found in the attitude of many economists towards the history of their discipline. This paper traces the...

This guide, updated for the 2016-17 job market season, describes the U.S. academic market for new Ph.D. economists and offers advice on conducting an academic job search. It provides data, reports findings from published papers, describes practical details, and includes links to online...

We examine the natural rate of unemployment estimates of two international organizations (OECD and European Commission) and various release dates. Since estimates differ to a large extent, empirical research results which use natural rate estimates will also vary depending on the data source...

The aim of our contribution is to present an innovative instrument to teach macroeconomics at the undergraduate and master level. We develop a digital learning platform to present and explore some controversies at the very foundations of macroeconomic theory. For this purpose, we explicitly...

Die Studie untersucht - basierend auf sprach- und textbasierten Analysen, die sich auf die Kognitionswissenschaften und die Beeinflussungsforschung stützen - ob und welche Arten von Indoktrination im Rahmen der weltweit standardisierten ökonomischen Bildung an Hochschulen ausfindig gemacht...