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Ulhøi, John P. - 2007

This paper addresses the extent to which the increasing demand for corporate environmentalism has found its way into the institutions of higher business and management education. The study presents results from an empirical study in 4 EU member states which is based on an analysis and findings...

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Notes Toward a Simplified Pedagogy of Oligopoly Theory

Cheung, Stephen L. - 2006

makes use of the same assumptions, but which may be more transparent to students with limited mathematical backgrounds. I …

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Rates of Return to Degrees Across British Regions

O'Leary, Nigel C. - 2006

Earlier papers have found considerable heterogeneity in the returns to degrees in relation to subjects of study, degree classification and higher education institution. In this paper we examine heterogeneity of returns across British regions using the Labour Force Survey. We find substantial...

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Teaching the Principles of Economics : A Proposal for a Multi-Paradigmatic Approach

Knoedler, Janet T. - 2006

academic economics tend to grant lower grades on average to students, or to the relaxation that business programs have in their … of economic thinkers outside the mainstream. Thus, students will overcome their dissatisfaction and they will have a more …

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Budgeting and Performance Evaluation at the Berkshire Toy Company

Crawford, Dean - 2000

This case provides an opportunity to study budgets, budget variances, and performance evaluation at several levels. As a purely mechanical problem, the case asks for calculations of various price, efficiency, spending, and volume variances from a set of budgets and actual results. The case is...

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The Path to an Economics PhD

Schlauch, Garrison - 2017

We examine the pre-graduate school characteristics of American PhD students graduating from the top 50 American … is not, with the exception of students from unranked undergraduate institutions. Without research assistant experience …, women graduate from lower ranked PhD programs than do men. Students who major or minor in both economics and math graduate …

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Conscious Capitalism vs. Rapacious Capitalism : Lessons from King Leopold II

Friedman, Hershey H. - 2017

In this paper it is argued that two kinds of capitalism are engaged in a great struggle in the United States. Both approaches are derived from the opinions of Adam Smith, the father of capitalism, who posited in The Wealth of Nations that universal self-interest and the “invisible hand” of...

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Don't Be ‘A Jibbering Idiot’ : Economic Principles and the Properly Trained Economist

Boettke, Peter J. - 2017

't empirically meaningful. However, graduate students are being increasingly trained in sophisticated procedures of optimization and …

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How to Compare Faculty Pay Across the Business School

Wilson, Linus - 2017

By scaling pay by AACSB averages pay across business school disciplines can be analyzed. This study looks at a unique data set of business school professors at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. It finds large disparities in pay between the business disciplines that cannot be explained by...

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'Looking for FACTs' : Graduation Trends in Accounting, Finance, and Taxation

Bravidor, Marcus - 2017

We present empirical evidence on the temporal graduation trends in managerial, financial and tax accounting as well as audit and (corporate) finance in Germany. Overall, we observe a positive trend, which reverses as of lately. Accounting and finance lag behind the positive trend of business...

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