The primary purpose of this research paper was to evaluate if there were statistically significant relationships between the amount of time students spent on course assignments and final course grades. The researcher utilized data gathered from the University’s Canvas Learning Management...

Critiques of the mainstream economics curriculum raise two keys concerns: 1) the limited opportunities for students to engage with and expand their critical thinking skills and democratic values; 2) the possibility that students will develop a narrow understanding of economics which could limit...

Social media are technology which provides online platform to create, generate and share available resources. Social media are used as a way of connecting and communicating with others without any regards to geographical limitation of space. The purpose of this study is to find out the Influence...

Whilst in the US there is a growing debate about the effectiveness of remedial university courses, this issue is less questioned in the UK. Using a regression discontinuity approach and data from a large School of a post-1992 UK university, we estimate the effect of remediation on student...

Regression analysis using panel data for 42 colleges and universities over 14 years suggests that the economics faculty size of universities offering a Ph.D. in economics is determined primarily by the long-run average number of Ph.D. degrees awarded annually; the number of full-time faculty...

This study analyses the relationship between identification and loyalty and also compares the perceptions of two groups of key stakeholders (professors and graduates) of a public institution of higher education, as mechanisms to gain competitiveness against private institutions. To carry out...

Purpose: Katsikopoulos et al. (2021) found that the recency heuristic's forecasts of week-ahead percentage of doctor visits associated with influenza symptoms-reduced forecast errors by nearly one-half compared to Google Flu Trends' machine learning model. This research note examined whether the...

Purpose: To assess the predictive validity of Lott and Varney's (2022) ordinary least squares (OLS) multiple regression (MRA) causal model of the effect of immigrant population numbers, as a proportion of the total population, on the homicide victim rate for 31 European countries.Methods: The...

This is a course material (slides in pdf format) from the book 'Investment Decision Making For Firm and Project Valuation.' The book is originally in Spanish and is untitled as 'Decisiones de inversion. Para la valoracion financiera de proyectos y empresas.' Chapter 5 deals with how to prepare...

This review paper articulates the relationship between prediction market data and event studies, with a special focus on applications in political economy. Event studies have been used to address a variety of political economy questions - from the economic effects of party control of government...