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This paper shows that the standard textbook formula for computing the present value of a future random cash flow – the discounted expected value – is formally incorrect and can generate significant errors when used to compute present values. The correct present value method is provided as...
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This paper deals with the use of the CAPM for capital budgeting purposes. Four different measures are deductively drawn from this model: the disequilibrium Net Present Value, the equilibrium Net Present Value, the disequilibrium Net Future Value, the equilibrium Net Future Value. While all of...
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Under competition, the rate of return on investment tends toward equality in all industries. Introductory and intermediate microeconomics textbooks are sketchy in explaining how capital is allocated by financial markets. Capital budgeting techniques, primarily net present value, deserve a more...
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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...
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By conducting a discourse analysis (SKAD) in the field of academic economics textbooks, this paper aims at reconstructing frames and identity options offered to undergraduate students relating to the questions "Why study economics?"and "Who do I become by studying economics?". The analysis...
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Trotz vieler Initiativen zur Stärkung finanzieller Bildung an Schulen findet sich in den deutschen Lehrplänen hierzu kein eigenes Fach. Im Folgenden skizziere ich zunächst die Erwartungen an eine finanzielle Bildung und die faktische Situation an den Schulen, um dann ausführlicher die...
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Die finanzielle Bildung an Schulen ist umstritten. Zum einen weil sie zum Spielfeld für lobbyistische Interessen gerät, zum anderen weil sich auch prinzipiell die Frage stellen lässt, welche (Einzel) Themen einen herausgehobenen und eigenständigen Ort im Stundenplan haben müssen. Das Thema...
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Viele Entscheidungen des täglichen Lebens erfordern ökonomische Kenntnisse. Es gibt somit gute Gründe, das Wissen über Wirtschafts- und Finanzthemen zu stärken. In Deutschland gibt es bislang für ökonomische Bildung keine federführende Institution. Vielmehr engagieren sich neben dem...
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Die Beiträge diskutieren die Belastbarkeit der Prinzipien Disziplinarität und Transdisziplinarität am Exempel der sozio
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Economic views held by the general public tend to differ significantly from those of economic experts. To what extent would these differences fade away if people were exposed to economic instruction? In this paper we identify first-year college students' initial preconceptions about economic...
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