This manuscript develops a classroom experiment on international trade that is suitable for undergraduate intermediate macroeconomics, international trade, and international finance courses. Students representing buyers, in a small home country and foreign country, and sellers, both home and...

The authors illustrate several issues in decision support and decision support systems (DSS), state of the art research in these fields, and also their own studies in designing a higher education DSS. The final section contains our contribution in outlining the modules of the DSS, involving the...

Shorter undergraduate studies, increasing specialization and the priority of applied research in Economics represent threats for the History of Economic Thought (HET) as an integral part of the training of young economists. There are mostly sociological arguments to reduce or eliminate HET...

A short case about long-run economic growth issues in the African nation of Mali is presented. Issues discussed in the case include challenges related to Mali's education system, investment, and trade. Basic facts and statistics about Mali are provided. Analysis of public policy issues and the...

This paper argues that the reason that the DSGE model, which has proved so successful in convincing academic economists of its value, has made relatively few inroads into the undergraduate teaching sphere is that it fails to allow for the development of higher order educational objectives in...

Die Kurzexpertise kritisiert das Gutachten der Wirtschaftsverbände „Ökonomische Bildung an allgemein bildenden Schulen“ (2010) als unter fachwissenschaftlichen, fachdidaktischen, pädagogischen und pragmatischen Aspekten unzureichend. Sie verlangt, ökonomische Fragen in gesellschaftliche,...

This paper assesses the effect of two stylized and antithetic non-monetary incentive schemes on students’ effort. We collect data from a field experiment where incentives are exogenously imposed, performance is monitored and individual characteristics are observed. Students are randomly...

Basel II changes risk management in banks strongly. Internal rating procedures would lead one to expect that banks are changing over to active risk control. But, if risk management is no longer a simple "game against nature", if all agents involved are active players then a shift from a...

L'usage des Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication (TIC) participe de plus en plus à la restructuration de l’espace européen de formation. Dans ce contexte et sous un angle résolument organisationnel, cette communication analyse l'essor du e-Learning dans l’enseignement...

The paper considers efficiency of the Russian Unified State Exam (USE, or EGE, Russian version of SAT), and results of «olympiads» — national students’ contests in economics, mathematics as predictors of ICEF HSE students’ academic achievements. Most courses in ICEF are taught in...