A worldwide pandemic is forcing schools to close their doors. Yet the need to teach students remains. How can faculty – especially those who are not trained in technology-mediated teaching – maintain educational continuity? This Essay provides some suggestions and relatively quick and easy...

The job of economist is to evaluate economic issues, analyze past economic trends and forecast the economic outlook. Economic forecasting is the process of attempting to predict the future condition of the economy using a combination of widely followed indicators or factors that affect economy....

This paper provides a review of significant academic studies and non-academic research endeavors in the realm of negative emotions (with an emphasis on worry), gender, and decision making. The author encourages behavioral finance researchers to place greater attention into the development of new...

This paper provides empirical evidence on the link between stock market volatility and macroeconomic uncertainty. We show that US stock market volatility is significantly related to the dispersion in economic forecasts from SPF survey participants over the period from 1969 to 1996. This link is...

The privatization process in East Africa has been slow and lethargic. More than a decade after the process was initiated; most of the state enterprises earmarked for privatization are still on hold. For those that the respective governments have managed to divest, the process has been bedeviled by...

The original cost regulatory system, as currently used in the regulation of utilities and natural gas pipelines, cannot emulate the response of a competitive firm to high and varying inflation. Although there can be many problems introduced by regulatory lag and by high administrative and...

In this paper, I examine how expectations management for the purpose of meeting or beating analyst expectations (MBE) impairs the ability of analyst forecast-based valuation models to predict firms' intrinsic values. I predict that management's manipulation of analyst expectations introduces...

We review methodological issues that arise in designing, implementing and evaluating the efficacy of 'light' paternalistic policies. In contrast to traditional 'heavy-handed' approaches to paternalism, light paternalistic policies aim to enhance individual choice without restricting it. Although...

This study investigates the distributional characteristics and appropriate remedial actions of selected financial ratios from failed and non-failed Malaysian listed firms. A total of 66 listed firms with 330 observations and 65 variables were examined for the period from 1980 to 1996. The...

Adam Smith's discussion of the system of natural liberty, its effects on the functioning of the market system, and the resultant implications for the economic role of the state has formed the basis of much of the subsequent economic literature analyzing the interplay of market and state. While...