This study contributes to the current body of entrepreneurial finance literature by analyzing multiple aspects of personal guarantees. We conducted a survey yielding 1,462 responses from owners or managers of incorporated small businesses geographically dispersed throughout the United States. Of...

Interest rates have been around since the times of the Bible. In fact, the Bible says quite a bit about interest. Interest rates have been the focus of serious academic study since the Great Depression. Embedded in both the Bible and the academic study of interest has been the implied assumption...

This paper uses two large databases to determine if students of a given gender learn more from instructors of the same gender and if instructors of a given gender receive higher ratings from students of the same gender compared to students of the opposite gender. The Indiana University (IU) data...

The Interment provides an unlimited resource for students in an investments course. Actual investing is increasingly done on-line. It is essential that students in investment courses be exposed to this technology to function as consumers of investment products, employees of an investment...

The percentage of doctorates in economics awarded in the United States to US citizens has declined from 67.3 percent in 1977 to 55.7 percent in 1986 to 42.9 percent in 1996 [Siegfried and Stock, 1999]. This clearly implies that the number of economics instructors whose native language is not...