This meta-analysis considers the use of technology to facilitate learning in undergraduate economics courses. We ask what technologies have been adopted, who did the adopting, and how effectiveness was evaluated. A survey of 237 articles published between 2000 and 2020 demonstrates that while...

This paper identifies the extent to which James Buchanan's interpretation of Knut Wicksell's unanimity rule, as spelled out in the second essay in "Finanztheoretische Untersuchungen" (1896), has come to dominate the public economics literature despite competing with the interpretation offered by...

This study examines the link between consumer expenditures and the Conference Board's Index of Consumer Attitudes, an index highly regarded for some time as a useful leading indicator of consumer expenditures. However, the theory that identifies why it may be useful in an analysis of consumption...

This paper describes an internationally-oriented course module for intermediate microeconomics. We describe the collaboration project as well as the results of implementing it at an US and Peruvian university. In the project, US university students were partnered with comparable students at a...

We derive forecast confidence bands using a Global Projection Model covering the United States, the euro area, and Japan. In the model, the price of oil is a stochastic process, interest rates have a zero floor, and bank lending tightening affects the United States. To calculate confidence...

In this paper, I examine the strategies by which Elinor Ostrom carved out a successful career as a woman in the social sciences with a particular emphasis on her engagement with the discipline of economics. The methodology is guided by Ostrom’s work with small-N case studies. Layers of...